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14th FinTech Forum | 24th Nov. 2022 - Airport Club, Frankfurt
Since 2013, award-winning insights and connections into the investors and founders behind "What's next in European FinTech".
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About this event
Since 2013, FinTech Forum offers award-winning insights and connections into the investors and founders behind “What’s next in European FinTech”. We were recognized as one of first-movers in European FinTech by the WSJ/ FN FinTech40 "Innovators Shaping the Future of Finance" (2014). Our 22 events have brought together 360+ startups and 1800+ investors and financial institutions, while our online presence has grown to 20k+ subscribers and followers.
Save the Date: 14th FinTech Forum | Thursday, 24th Nov. 2022 | Airport Club, Frankfurt
FinTech Forum returns to the Airport Club Frankfurt for an exclusive, in-person 14th edition this November. Hear from top-notch investors and founders on the trends and opportunities across six key segments: Payments, Banking, Asset Management, Insurance, Capital Markets, and Blockchain/ Crypto/ Web 3.0.
- for each segment, an investor will cover a "lay of the land", emerging trends and opportunities, and what to expect in 2023
- for each segment, a startup - handpicked by professional investors as a "player to watch" - will cover a big problem or opportunity they are taking on
- we wrap up with a panel discussion discussing "What's next in European FinTech"
- network with specialist FinTech investors, founders and like-minded financial institutions
Interested?
Corporates/ investors may register here directly or contact us for further information and sponsorship opportunities: contact@fintechforum.de
Startups must apply to present/ participate: email your pitch to contact@fintechforum.de or reach out to us via LinkedIn: Frank Schwab or Samarth Shekhar
Sign up here for our weekly round-up of European FinTech deals and Q&As with leading investors and founders, as well as updates on the event.
(Draft) Agenda: 24th Nov. 2022
Registration & Kick-off
11:00 – 11:30 Registration
11:30 – 11:40 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
11:40 – 11:50 European FinTech Deal Highlights: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum; EMEA Lead, SixThirty Ventures.
Trends & Opportunities: Investor & Startup Presentations
11:50 – 12:20 Payments
12:20 – 12:50 Banking
12:55 – 13:45 Networking & Lunch
13:45 – 14:15 Asset Management
14:15 – 14:45 Insurance
14:50 – 15:20 Networking & Coffee
15:25 – 15:55 Capital Markets
15:55 – 16:25 Blockchain/ Crypto/ Web 3.0/ Metaverse
Panel Discussion & Networking
16:30 – 17:00 Panel „What's next in European FinTech 2023?"
17:00 – 18:30 Networking & Drinks
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Snapshots of Previous Events
13th FinTech Forum (18th Nov. 2021)
Location: The Airport Club, Frankfurt/ Hybrid
Agenda
12:30 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 14:00 Networking/ Lunch
14:00 - 14:10 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
14:10 - 14:20 European FinTech Deal Highlights: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum; EMEA Lead, SixThirty Ventures.
14:20 - 15:00 Startup Pitches - Round 1
15:00 - 15:15 InsurTech Trends to Watch- David Schäffler, Hannover Digital Investments
15:15 - 15:30 FinTech Trends to Watch- Cynthia Nadal, SeedX Liechtenstein
15:30 - 15:35 Introducing IDA Ireland for FinTechs - Daragh Hanratty, IDA Ireland
15:35 - 16:00 Coffee / Networking
16:00 - 16:40 Startup Pitches - Round 2
16:40 - 17:00 An LP's "Startup" Journey: and Why Emerging VCs Matter - Ertan Can, Multiple Capital
17:00 - 17:15 ESG for Investors & Startups: Key Findings & Action Items - Theresa Bardubitzki & Lisa Schmitt, KfW Capital
17:15 - 17:45 Panel Discussion: The Investment Portfolio for 2022 and Beyond. Panelists: May Wang, FinVC | Robin Buschmann, Commerzbank | Semih Kacan, Swisscom Ventures; Moderator: Frank Schwab
Nearly two years since COVID-19 changed financial services - and our lives - forever, we ask our panelists which two startups (real or imaginary / yet to be founded) they would love to have in their portfolio of angel or venture capital investments for 2022 and beyond.
17:45 -19:00 Networking Drinks
Startups on Stage
AAZZUR Create fully-customised and branded mobile banking apps within just 6 to 10 weeks using their Smart Finance Blocks.
aisot real-time insights for trading and asset management for data-driven decision-making.
ALLINDEX SaaS solution helping asset managers, banks etc. create and back-test direct indexing solutions tailored to themes (e.g. ESG) or tax savings.
Delega Helps corporates and their banks digitise and manage signatory rights via an end-to-end workflow solution.
Insaas.ai next generation market research to understand consumers and power personalised financial services.
QuickCashAI SaaS platform for 20x faster AI-driven, paperless SME lending automation and credit risk assessment.
Vermögensheld gaming-driven financial education and wealth advice "as a service" for the digital generation.
Wequity "be the first to know the ESG risks of your investments" - real-time AI-powered insights from news & social media.
Investors / Industry Experts on Stage
Cynthia Nadal, SeedX Liechtenstein
Daragh Hanratty, IDA Ireland
David Schäffler, Hannover Digital Investments
Ertan Can, Multiple Capital
Lisa Schmitt, KfW Capital
May Wang, Fin Venture Capital
Robin Buschmann, Commerzbank
Semih Kacan, Swisscom Ventures
Theresa Bardubitzki, KfW Capital
Selection of Participants
AAZZUR
Accelerator Frankfurt
Aisot
BalgheimConsult
Commerzbank
Delega
Dogan Calmaz
Fin Venture Capital
Holger Assmann (Investor)
Hannover Digital Investments
Iconic Holding
IDA Ireland
Insaas
KfW Capital
Multiple Capital
SeedX Liechstenstein
SixThirty Ventures
Steffen Seeger (Business Angel)
Swisscom Ventures
United Ventures
Vermögensheld
Wequity
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12th FinTech Forum (Digital)
Due to the COVID-19 situation, after careful consideration, we decided to hold the 12th FinTech Forum as an online event with an adapted agenda.
Agenda | 19th Nov. 2020
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
14:10 – 14:20 European FinTech Deal Map: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
14:20 – 15:00 Startup Pitches I with Q&As
Brian Nolan, Finteum | Carl v Halem, Commnex | Wladimir Huber,KlickOwn | Gustas Germanavicius, EVOESTATE
15:00 – 15:20 Guest Speakers I
Astrid Freier: Partner, DACH, Vidici Ventures
Oliver Werneyer: Co-Founder & CEO, Imburse Payments
15:20 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:10 Startup Pitches II with Q&As
Alexander Schlicher, My Football Space | Sandipan Chakraborty, Sonect | Martin Kreitmair, Tangany | Morgan Deane, Spherium
16:10 – 16:30 Guest Speakers II
Manuel Silva Martinez: General Partner, Mouro Capital
Daniel Andemeskel: Head of Innovation at Universal Investment
16:30 – 17:00 Panel Discussion: FinTech Investing in the (post-) COVID Era
Paula Blazquez Solano: Head of Investments at InnoCells (Banco Sabadell)
Ertan Can: Managing Partner, Multiple Capital
Balkrishna Dubey: Managing Director, Nagarro Germany
Max Lautenschläger: MP & Co-Founder, Iconic Holding
Moderated by Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
Presenting Startups “in a Tweet”
CommneX: a digital brokering platform for credit- and deposits from municipalities and municipal enterprises
EvoEstate: a real estate investment aggregator- investors from 72 countries can invest in 18 crowdfunding platforms from a single account.
Finteum: a platform for interbank intraday lending, enabling treasurers to borrow and lend for hours at a time
KlickOwn: blockchain-enabled platform offering a superior real estate investing experience for everyone
My Football Space: Blockchain-based fan loyalty & more
SONECT: “Uber for ATM” – use your smartphone to pick up cash at over 2,300 partner shops.
Spherium Labs: decentralized financial services – from lending & borrowing to investing & trading – compliant to Islamic finance rules.
Tangany: a (soon) regulated white-label custody solution for digital assets on blockchain- infrastructure, safe wallet storage, plus compliance.
Investors / Guest Speakers
Astrid Freier: Partner, DACH, Vidici Ventures
Balkrishna Dubey: Managing Director, Nagarro
Daniel Andemeskel: Head of Innovation at Universal Investment
Ertan Can: Managing Partner, Multiple Capital
Manuel Silva Martinez: Partner, Head of Investments, Mouro Capital (earlier Santander InnoVentures)
Max Lautenschläger: Co-Founder, MD & COO of Iconic Holding
Oliver Werneyer: Co-Founder & CEO, Imburse Payments
Paula Blazquez Solano: Head of Investments at InnoCells (Banco Sabadell)
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11th FinTech Forum | 21st Nov. 2019
11th FinTech Forum in Tweets: http://www.fintechforum.de/11th-fintech-forum-in-tweets/
Agenda
10:00 - 10:30 Event Registration
10:30 - 10:40 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:40 - 10:50 FinTech Deal Highlights: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:50 - 11:50 Startup Pitches I
- f-fex (Germany): a new, intelligent portfolio advisory tool with innovative fund evaluation and selection.
- Coinmat (Switzerland): the first professional operator of ATMs for crypto currencies with a financial approval
- Bizbot (Norway): helps entrepreneurs and investors manage their cap tables, via an easy-to-use use and connected platform.
- Coindex (Germany): digital asset manager to purchase, manage and store an index-based crypto portfolio.
- iCEIBA (UK): The Litigation Claims Financing Platform powered by Blockchain
- Forctis (Switzerland): offers Asset Representation System- a Blockchain inspired by the way DNA works.
11:50 - 12:30 Guest Speakers
Assaf Shamia, Giesecke+Devrient Ventures
Jens Jennissen, Founder, Fairr.de (exit to Raisin)- Journey to Exit
Daragh Hanratty, VP Financial Services, IDA Ireland- "Elevator Pitch"
12:30 - 13:30 Buffet & Networking
13:30 - 14:30 Startup Pitches II
- Lingua Custodia (France): AI for high-end translations in finance e.g. fund prospectus, equity research etc.
- Remipay (Germany): enterprise solution for simple multi-currency payments on all devices.
- Trality (Austria): Making the tools of Wall Street available to everyone with algo-trading bots.
- Wechselgott (Germany): the one and only contract manager - monitor, cancel and optimise (recurring) contracts.
- Nodeventure (Austria): stores digital assets safely and profitably by reducing the entry barriers for blockchain systems.
- Ybanking (Poland): a virtual bank offering multiple products via a Platform-as-a-Service.
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee & Networking
15:00 - 15:45 Guest Speakers
Nikolai Dördrechter, XTP Group & Karl-Heinz Passler, Basler Versicherungen- Mapping the InsurTech Opportunity for FinTechs & Banks
Christian Knott, Capnamic Ventures - Banks in the Open Banking Era- from Surviving to Thriving via Partnerships
15:45 - 16:15 Panel Discussion: "When finance becomes an add-on" - FinTechs make it easy to embed financial services into the customer workflows of other sectors, but are incumbents prepared for an era of „backstage banking" (or insurance)?
Panelists:
- Christian Arndt, High-Tech Gründerfonds
- Matthias Klein, Management Partners Group
- Peter Barkow, Barkow Consulting
- Terrie Smith, Digiseq
Moderator: Frank Schwab, FinTech Forum.
16:15+ Networking Drinks
Selection of Participants
Aigang
Allvest
Balgheim Consult
Barkow Consulting
Bizbot
Börsen-Zeitung
Capnamic Ventures
Cashlink
Coindex
Coinmat
Deutsche Bank
Digiseq
Exaloan
Fairr.de
Finlab
Flovtec
Forctis
f-fex
G+D Ventures
Gulf International Bank
Hal9K Capital
Hasso Plattner Institute
Heidelberger Vermögen
Heussen Law
High-Tech Gründerfonds
iCEIBA
ING Group
Irish Development Authority
Lingua Custodia
Lithuanian Business Angel Network
Lufthansa Airplus
Management Partners Group
Mastercard
Merrill Lynch
Nissay / NIppon Life
Nodeventure
Raisin
Remipay
Santander UK
Senacor
SixThirty Ventures
Trality
Wechselgott
Wipro
Wuestenrot Bank
YBanking
ZDF
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10th FinTech Forum (Nov. 2018)
10th FinTech Forum shows the next wave of FinTechs, investments, partnerships and M&A is herehttp://www.fintechforum.de/10th-fintech-forum-shows-the-next-wave-of-fintechs-investments-partnerships-and-ma-is-here/
FinTech Forum: Nr. 10 im Airport Club des Frankfurter Flughafen – das Jubiläum: IT Finanzmagazin (DE). https://www.it-finanzmagazin.de/fintech-forum-10-frankfurt-82226/
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The 10th FinTech Forum - also our 5th Anniversary Edition since the first event on 22nd Nov. 2013 - seeks to identify innovators, disruptors and "hidden champions" in the financial services sector, and bring them together with investors and financial institutions.
Agenda
10:00 - 10:30 Event Registration
10:30 - 10:40 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:40 - 10:50 FinTech Deal Highlights: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:50 - 12:10 Startup Pitches I
AAZZUR advinda BITA CCEX CrowdDesk DACEBOOK finbc Imburse Payments
12:10 - 12:30 Keynote: Thorsten Terweiden, InvestHK
12:30 - 12:45 Essential lessons from Germany's first FinTech: Laurens Mauquoi, Smava
12:45 - 13:45 Buffet & Networking
13:45 - 14:00 Financial Services innovation by Be TSE: Dirk Fuchs, Be Think, Solve, Execute
14:00 - 14:10 Creating a loyalty platform with financial services: Bernd Wendln, Miles & More
14:10 - 15:20 Startup Pitches II
ForexFix Fractal Blockchain GrowneyJUNIUS CapitalNeon Banking RYSKEX XTECH
15:20 - 15:35 Coffee Break
15:35 - 16:05 Panel Discussion: German FinTech, Outside Backers- Fast Forward 2023
Andreas Thümmler, Acxit Capital PartnersDr. Christian Nagel, Earlybird Venture Capital Hans de Back, Finch Capital Kerstin Eichmann, Innogy Innovation HubPaul Morgenthaler, CommerzVenturesModerators: Frank Schwab & Michael Mellinghoff
16:05 - 16:20 Fireside chat: Nektarios Liolios- 5 years accelerating FinTech globally (with Michael Mellinghoff)
16:20 - 16:30 FinTech Forum Retro- 5 Years in 10 Minutes: Samarth Shekhar
16:30+ Networking Drinks
Presenting Startups "in a Tweet"
- AAZZUR is an intelligent account aggregator with a functionality layer, where customers connect their accounts thanks to PSD2 and OpenBanking, tailored to international customers. They have acquired live Alpha customers already, and were part of the TechStars Berlin program (2018).
- advinda is disrupting how the Alternative Investment industry raises institutional capital- a simple CRM solution combined with proprietary investor intelligence on more than $68 trillion AUM in the cloud.
- BITA, is "the S&P of crypto indices"- the first professional index and data provider in the digital asset space to develop, calculate and disseminate real-time indexes and proprietary datafeeds covering the digital asset universe.
- CCEX Cloud Commodities Exchange enables Cloud Computing Resources e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc. to be traded similar to traditional commodities such as crude oil, gas, electricity, etc. via already existing exchanges
- CrowdDesk offers "full-service Fundrasing-as-a-Service: digitised and standardised issuing and investment processes for SMEs, startups or public agencies who need to raise capital through the crowd". Cooperation with GLS Bank on Europe’s first crowd-investing platform of a bank.
- DACEBOOK- Digital Asset Class Exchange Book (TM) enables institutional investors to onboard, trade and process Digital Asset Class (DAC) products with enterprise grade vendor data and smart technology solutions.
- finbc is the P2P receivables exchange and financing platform for SME on the blockchain, enabling international invoicing and payments- both regular or cryptocurrency- right out of the ERP system.
- ForexFix offers easy and fast hedging against currency fluctuations for small and medium businesses who are doing business internationally and have costs or revenues in foreign currencies. Our service is easy to use and less expensive.
- Fractal Blockchain offers on-boarding and payment software for Token Launches (ICOs) - a multidisciplinary, international endeavour- with a focus on compliance and usability.
- Growney is a digital Investment Advice company with a transparent, cost- effective and simple product for retail customers in Germany. They recently signed a cooperation with Signal Iduna, and receives high ratings from the independent non-profit consumer website FinanzTip.de.
- Imburse Payments is "the first end-to-end platform to solve customer value challenges at transaction level using AI/ML to optimise the offer/transaction technology combination". With 3 committed PoCs, they have won "Best Pitch" at Swiss Fintech event and accepted to the Plug n Play Europe Batch 0 (Insurtech).
- Neon Banking is Switzerland’s 1st independent #mobile bank–free banking, offering simple, mobile and free everyday banking – free current account linked with Debit MasterCard and variety of third party products. They recently announced a cooperation with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg.
- RYSKEX is the next level of RISK EXchange, offering a hedging platform for insurance risks embedded in a B2B ecosystem. It brings together risk management units and institutional investors via a blockchain-based P2P approach supported by AI and an own token.
- XTECH is a German cryptocurrency exchange, enabling access to the hottest coins in the cryptocurrency ecosystem to both professional and amateur traders.
- is building the first fully regulated index replication mechanism for ETF crypto investing based in Germany.
Selection of Participating Companies
AAZZUR
Acxit Corporate Finance
advinda Investor Cloud
Aigang
BDK Bank
Be Think, Solve, Execute
Bita Data
Börsen Zeitung
CCEX Cloud Commodities Exchange
City Eschborn
CrowdDesk
DACEBOOK
DC Placement Advisors
DVFA
Earlybird Venture Capital
finbc
Finch Capital
First Momentum Ventures
Forexfix
Fractal Blockchain
Growney
Hasso Plattner Institute
HighTech Gründerfonds
Helaba Digital
Heussen Law
Imburse Payments
Innogy Innovation Hub
InvestHK
KfW Capital
Lufthansa AirPlus
Miles & More
Nagarro
Neon Banking
Ryskex
smava
Specific Group
Trendlink
Wüstenrot Bank
XAnge Venture Capital
XTECH.ai
yabeo Management
+ several Business Angels
Further Previous Events
9th FinTech Forum: Frankfurt, Sep. 2017
8th FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, Nov. 2016
7th FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, Apr. 2016
FinTech Forum On Tour | UK FinTech meets Germany: Frankfurt, Mar. 2018
FinTech Forum On Tour | InvestTech: London, Apr. 2017
FinTech Forum On Tour | FinTech meets Telecom: Frankfurt, Mar. 2017
FinTech Forum On Tour | FinTech meets Travel: Neu-Isenburg / Frankfurt, Sep. 2016
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FinTech Forum offers award-winning insights and connections into the European FinTech startup and investment landscape: a network of 15000+ on our newsletter and social media channels, 20 events that have brought together over 300 curated startups with more than 1500 investors and financial institutions. FTF alumni have gone on to raise over $600mn in funding as of end-2018.