Date | 01-02 December 2026
Location | Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL
The Home of Financial Innovation.
The UK’s largest dedicated financial technology conference and exhibition, running annually since 2014.
FinTech Connect is designed for professionals with a specific function inside financial services. Sessions are built for practitioners – not a general technology audience. If your role sits within any of the following, there is a track, a speaker programme and an exhibition floor built around your work:
- Banks and financial institutions – technology, payments, risk, compliance, AI, digital assets, finance
- Fintechs and scaleups – product, commercial, growth, engineering, partnerships
- Corporate treasury and finance teams – CFOs, Group Treasurers, Finance Transformation Directors from FTSE 100 and 250 companies (new audience for 2026)
- Regulators and policy teams – FCA, Bank of England and other bodies are represented on stage and in the room
- Investors – VCs and institutional investors active in financial services deal flow
Seven Specialist Content Tracks
Each track is aligned to a specific function in financial services and updated for the regulatory and commercial landscape of 2026. Send the whole team – each person follows the programme most relevant to their work.
- AI in Finance – For professionals moving AI from proof of concept into production. Covers AI governance frameworks, model risk management, explainability, agentic AI, and practical applications in fraud detection, credit decisioning and customer operations. Key roles: Chief AI Officer, Head of Model Risk, Head of Data Science, ML Engineering Lead.
- Corporate Finance Innovation – A new track for CFOs, Group Treasurers and Finance Transformation Directors. Making Tax Digital (mandatory from April 2026), ViDA (formally adopted March 2025), treasury technology, real-time cash visibility and ERP transformation. Organisations attending: Shell, Unilever, Vodafone, Diageo, AstraZeneca, Rolls-Royce.
- Digital Assets and Tokenisation – Institutional adoption, custody, tokenised funds and market infrastructure. Covers DLT Pilot Regime, tokenised securities, stablecoins, CBDCs and how traditional institutions build tokenisation capability. Key roles: Head of Digital Assets, CIO, Custody Director, Tokenisation Programme Lead.
- Payments Innovation – Real-time rails, embedded finance, B2B payments and fraud prevention. Open banking progress, cross-border interoperability and commercial strategy. Key roles: Head of Payments, Embedded Finance Lead, Open Banking Lead, CEO/Founder (PayTech).
- Financial Security and Compliance (RegTech) – DORA implementation, EU AI Act obligations for financial services, AML reform and compliance automation. Key roles: Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer, MLRO, CISO, Head of Financial Crime. FCA represented on stage.
- Digital Transformation – Core banking modernisation, cloud operating models, ICT dependency management and vendor ecosystem management. Key roles: Group CIO, CTO, Chief Digital Officer, Core Banking Programme Director, Cloud Strategy Lead.
- FinTech Marketing and Growth – Acquiring and retaining customers in regulated financial services. FCA financial promotion rules, product-led growth, AI-powered personalisation. Key roles: CMO, VP Growth, Head of Brand, Performance Marketing Director.
150+ Exhibitors – The Full Market in Two Days
The exhibition floor at FinTech Connect brings together 150+ technology providers across two full days – from global platforms already embedded in major institutions to newer entrants solving problems your team is actively working on.
Walk the floor and leave with a clear picture of what is available, what is production-ready, and what organisations at peer institutions are already evaluating and deploying. It is a faster and more efficient way to understand the state of the market than any other route.
Startup Launchpad – See What is Coming Next
A dedicated zone within FinTech Connect for early and growth-stage fintechs. Companies pitch and demonstrate live, in front of the banks, investors and enterprise buyers in the room.
For visitors, the Startup Launchpad is the most concentrated view of emerging financial technology available in the UK – the companies that your competitors will be running pilots with in the next 12 months, all in one place.
Peer Networking at Scale
5,000+ professionals from 59 countries attend FinTech Connect. Delegations include teams from HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Mastercard, Visa, BlackRock and 100+ more organisations.
The introductions that would take months to arrange any other way happen here across two days. Regulatory briefings direct from the FCA and Bank of England. Peer benchmarking with people at equivalent roles in competing institutions. Technology demonstrations from the companies your team is already evaluating.
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