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The Conversation Continues: Catching Up with the Finovate Podcast

The Conversation Continues: Catching Up with the Finovate Podcast
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Podcasting, Serene, Speaker series, Tweezr

Have you been keeping up with the conversations on the Finovate Podcast?

Podcast host and Finovate VP Greg Palmer has interviewed an interesting range of guests in the first few months of 2026. From Best of Show winners to venture capitalists to fintech founders, Palmer’s podcast guests provide great insights into some of the most compelling innovations and the most important trends in our industry. Below are some of the conversations Greg has hosted so far this year.

Greg Palmer interviews FinovateEurope Best of Show winner Tweezr on updating legacy systems through LLMs and AI.

EP 288: FinovateEurope Best of Show winner Tweezr

Finovate podcast host Greg Palmer talks with FinovateEurope Best of Show winner Serene on behavioral intelligence and early risk indicators.

EP 287: FinovateEurope Best of Show winner Serene

Greg Palmer and Dor Eligula, co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Bridgewise, talk about the evolution of AI in the investment space.

EP 286: Bridging the wisdom gap: AI in the investment space

In this podcast conversation Greg Palmer sits down with Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social Leverage, for a perspective on fintech investment trends in 2026.

EP 285: A VC perspective on fintech investment trends and advice on how to stand out from the crowd

Finovate podcast host Greg Palmer interviews Joel Blake, OBE, founder and CEO of GFA Exchange on the challenge and reward of democratizing access to finance.

EP 284: From grassroots to the policy table—Joel Blake’s human-centric journey into fintech

Photo by Jacob Hodgson on Unsplash

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FinovateEurope 2026 Best of Show Winners Announced!

FinovateEurope 2026 Best of Show Winners Announced!
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Best of Show, R34DY, Serene, Tweezr

London called—and our FinovateEurope 2026 demoing companies answered!

After a full day of live fintech demonstrations showcasing solutions for challenges in lending, payments, wealth management, and more, the attendees of FinovateEurope have made their decision as to which companies will receive Finovate’s highest honor: Best of Show.

As Finovate VP and Master of Ceremonies Greg Palmer noted, this year’s competition was as tough as it has ever been—which reflects well not just on the winners, but also on all the companies that demoed their latest innovations before our audience of fintech and financial services professionals from around the world. Nevertheless, as the saying goes, there can only be one (or, in this case, three)—and here they are: the winners of Best of Show for FinovateEurope 2026!

R34DY for its ABLEMENTS solution that enables rapid AI transformation, allowing banks to achieve faster delivery, lower IT costs and comprehensive differentiation via context-aware modernization.

Serene for its technology that transforms a compliance burden into sustainable growth, with insights that optimize collections, reduce arrears, empower front-line teams, and safely expand lending to underserved markets.

Tweezr for its solution that helps organizations transform and grow by accelerating TTM and increasing developer productivity for both legacy system maintenance and modernization (or even obviating modernization all together).

A hearty congratulations to our trio of Best of Show winners and a profound thanks to all of the companies that demoed their latest fintech innovations on the Finovate stage this week. It seems as if each year the competition just gets tougher, and we salute those companies—from scholarship-winning startups to veteran incumbents—whose innovations bring greater personalization, security, and value to individuals, businesses, and communities.

Next up for Finovate is our event in sunny San Diego—FinovateSpring 2026—scheduled for May 5 through 7. We hope to see you there!

Notes on methodology:
1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.
2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites during each day. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.
3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”
4. The three companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.”
5. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. Best of Show winners from our 2015 through 2025 conferences are below:
FinovateEurope 2015
FinovateSpring 2015
FinovateFall 2015
FinovateEurope 2016
FinovateSpring 2016
FinovateFall 2016
FinovateAsia 2016
FinovateEurope 2017
FinovateSpring 2017
FinovateFall 2017
FinovateAsia 2017
FinovateMiddleEast 2018
FinovateEurope 2018
FinovateSpring 2018
FinovateFall 2018
FinovateAsia 2018
FinovateAfrica 2018
FinovateEurope 2019
FinovateSpring 2019
FinovateFall 2019
FinovateAsia 2019
FinovateMiddleEast 2019
FinovateEurope 2020
FinovateFall 2020
FinovateWest 2020
FinovateEurope 2021
FinovateSpring 2021
FinovateFall 2021
FinovateEurope 2022
FinovateSpring 2022
FinovateFall 2022
FinovateEurope 2023
FinovateSpring 2023
FinovateFall 2023
FinovateEurope 2024
FinovateSpring 2024
FinovateFall 2024
FinovateEurope 2025
FinovateSpring 2025
FinovateFall 2025

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FinovateEurope 2026 Sneak Peek Series: Part 2

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: Candour Oy, Darwinium, FinovateEurope 2026, FinovateEurope 2026 Sneak Peek, Hagbad, Tweezr

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateEurope in London on February 10. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Candour Identity

Candour Identity offers identity verification that continuously prevents rapidly evolving fraud attempts and provides a frictionless user experience for everyday use.

Features

  • Counters rapidly evolving fraud attempts
  • Delivers continuous fraud prevention
  • Provides a great user experience for everyday use

Who’s it for?

Banks, financial services, and telecom operators.

Darwinium

Darwinium is an AI fraud prevention platform born in the age of AI, using advanced AI tools to defeat the latest attacks, including scams, mules, and app cloning.

Features

  • Deploys in minutes at the perimeter edge
  • Protects touchpoints in the customer journey without an engineering resource
  • Uses adversarial AI red-teaming and an AI copilot to close the loop between detection and remediation

Who’s it for?

Banks, fintechs, enterprises, and SMBs.

Hagbad

Hagbad is a fintech platform that digitalizes social group savings into secure, transparent financial infrastructure, enabling communities to build financial visibility and long-term economic growth.

Features

  • Offers digital, invite-only group savings with automated contributions and payouts
  • Provides transparent, auditable records that strengthen trust and accountability
  • Delivers intelligent insights that support financial growth

Who’s it for?

Individuals and communities using group savings, particularly cash-based, diaspora, and ethically motivated users seeking secure, transparent, and interest-free financial tools.

Tweezr

Tweezr turns legacy code into system knowledge and business process maps, helping banks deliver safer core changes faster while avoiding risky big-bang programs.

Features

  • Presents explainable impact analysis and dependencies
  • Delivers business process maps and feature evolution
  • Offers incident investigation with end-to-end traceability

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and payment providers.

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FinovateEurope 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced

FinovateEurope 2025 Best of Show Winners Announced
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Best of Show, FinovateEurope 2025, Keyless, R34DY, Tweezr

The votes are in and the people have spoken! After a full day of live fintech demos from companies representing 13 countries, the attendees of FinovateEurope 2025 have made their decision as to which of this year’s 30+ demoing companies will take home a Best of Show trophy.

With no further ado, here are this year’s winners.

Keyless for its technology that replaces traditional multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods with automated biometric authentication, improving the user experience while cutting costs.

R34DY for its solution that helps organizations transform their business by taking the pain out of integrations and making it easy for business owners to create use cases and reduce time to market.

Tweezr for its technology that helps organizations transform and grow by accelerating time-to-market and increasing developer productivity for both legacy system maintenance and modernization (or even obviating modernization all together).

A heartfelt thanks to all the demoing companies, sponsors, speakers, and attendees for making FinovateEurope 2025 an exciting, impactful event. Be sure to keep in touch with us on the Finovate blog as these and the rest of our demoing companies continue to innovate and solve problems for banks, financial services providers, fintechs, and their customers.

Our next conference is FinovateSpring, which will be making its San Diego debut on May 7-9. We can’t wait to bring Finovate to California’s second-most populous city and look forward to seeing you there!

Notes on methodology:
1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.
2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites during each day. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.
3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”
4. The three companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.”
5. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. Best of Show winners from our 2015 through 2024 conferences are below:
FinovateEurope 2015
FinovateSpring 2015
FinovateFall 2015
FinovateEurope 2016
FinovateSpring 2016
FinovateFall 2016
FinovateAsia 2016
FinovateEurope 2017
FinovateSpring 2017
FinovateFall 2017
FinovateAsia 2017
FinovateMiddleEast 2018
FinovateEurope 2018
FinovateSpring 2018
FinovateFall 2018
FinovateAsia 2018
FinovateAfrica 2018
FinovateEurope 2019
FinovateSpring 2019
FinovateFall 2019
FinovateAsia 2019
FinovateMiddleEast 2019
FinovateEurope 2020
FinovateFall 2020
FinovateWest 2020
FinovateEurope 2021
FinovateSpring 2021
FinovateFall 2021
FinovateEurope 2022
FinovateSpring 2022
FinovateFall 2022
FinovateEurope 2023
FinovateSpring 2023
FinovateFall 2023
FinovateEurope 2024
FinovateSpring 2024
FinovateFall 2024

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FinovateEurope 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 7

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: AQ22, Deriskly, FinovateEurope 2025, FinovateEurope 2025 Sneak Peek, Homely, Neural Defend, Tweezr

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateEurope in London on February 25. Register today using this link and save 20%.

AQ22

AQ22 is an agentic banking orchestration platform automating financial workflows, from credit assessment and compliance to investment management and debt collection, helping banks streamline decision-making.

Features

  • AI-driven automation: Streamlines credit, investment, and compliance.
  • Seamless integration: Connects with any banking system.
  • Agentic intelligence: Enhances financial decision making.

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and financial institutions.

Deriskly

Deriskly helps financial services firms improve customer experience, automate compliance, and enhance trust through better communication and complaint analysis with safe and explainable AI.

Features

  • Enhances customer experience by improving communication clarity
  • Automates compliance with regulatory and brand guidelines
  • Identifies complaint patterns to drive better product decisions

Who’s it for?

Banks, financial services firms, insurers, and fintech companies.

Homely

Homely is an end-to-end, AI-powered digital journey for first-time buyers, empowering them to realize the dream of home ownership.

Features

Homely offers a unique, hyper-personalized AI-powered journey to realize home ownership.

Who’s it for?

Retail banks, businesses offering Homely to their employees, and individuals.

Neural Defend

Neural Defend is an AI-agentic deepfake detection startup founded by MIT researchers combating the $10.5 trillion global financial fraud problem with their patent pending algorithm.

Features

  • Delivers AI Agentic deepfake detection
  • Offers a multi-modal solution with audio, video, image, and expression detection
  • Provides real-time detection

Who’s it for?

Digital banks, fintechs, EKYC, verification companies, onboarding companies, insurance companies, media channels, dating companies, and government agencies.

Tweezr

Tweezr is an AI-powered surgical code assistant that pinpoints where developers should make changes across millions of lines of legacy code without breaking critical functionality.

Features

  • Delivers faster time-to-market for changes in legacy systems
  • Produces higher developer productivity in legacy environments
  • Obviates the need to launch the next ~$1B modernization program

Who’s it for?

Any financial institution with a complex legacy IT estate.

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