The 24th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum  takes place on 5 March 2026 at the Marriott Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, bringing together senior leaders from banking, payments, fintech, compliance, regulatory technology, and financial services. As an official FinanceX media partner, we are pleased to spotlight this premier event that shapes how the industry addresses rapid innovation and evolving regulatory demands. Organised by QUBE Events , this one-day forum unites banks, pay

The Baltic Payment Forum 2026  is one of the key events in the payments and fintech calendar this year, bringing together senior leaders to explore where digital finance is heading and what trends will shape the future of the industry. The hybrid-format event takes place on March 3, 2026, in Vilnius, Lithuania, and attracts more than 300 C-level executives and top decision-makers from over 30 countries. Organised annually, the forum focuses exclusively on payments, offering h

FinanceX is proud to partner with the 3rd Fintech Week & Expo Amsterdam 2026, taking place 26–27 February at the Holiday Inn Amsterdam - Arena Towers, Amsterdam. Fintech Week & Expo Amsterdam brings together a global community of fintech innovators, banking leaders, investors, regulators, policymakers, and technologists to address the evolving relationship between trust, transformation, and technology in financial services. The 2026 edition will spotlight next-generation inno

Tokenisation has been discussed in capital markets for well over a decade, yet institutional adoption has moved far more slowly than many expected. This hesitation is often attributed to institutional inertia, but the underlying issue has been relevance rather than resistance. Early projects demonstrated, quite convincingly, that assets could be issued on distributed ledgers. They made it clear that the technology worked. What they failed to demonstrate was how that technolo

By Federico Quarato, CEO of Klear European savers are sitting on trillions in idle cash. The issue isn’t a lack of capital, it’s a lack of willingness to be treated like a line item. Europe has a €10 trillion problem. Not a shortage of wealth, but a shortage of movement. Over the past decade, a huge demographic, professionals aged 30 to 55 with savings between €50k and €250k, has quietly stepped away from the traditional investment cycle. They aren’t unbanked. They’re uninspi

By Ziad Mabsout, CEO & Co-Founder of Vennre A new class of investors have come to the fore and received a lot of media attention over the last year, and they’re called  HENRYs  (High Earners, Not Rich Yet). They’re professionals in their thirties and forties with six-figure incomes and sound financial understanding. They save, invest and plan responsibly, yet find themselves locked out of the opportunities that build long-term wealth, private equity.  Their frustration, captu

By Albert Geisler Fox, CEO at Performativ Across wealth management, asset management, and banking, AI is showing up in very practical places. Not as a single program or transformation initiative, but inside day-to-day processes that support advisors, analysts, and operations teams. What we consistently see, however, is a gap between experimentation and production. Many institutions have proven that AI can be useful in isolation. Far fewer have been able to deploy it in ways t

Press release: Many countries position themselves as fintech hubs. Far fewer build the governance needed once fintech becomes economically significant and operationally complex. As Europe enters a new regulatory phase shaped by MiCA , stricter AML expectations, and closer scrutiny of non-bank financial actors, fintech policy is increasingly judged on execution. Supervisory capacity, risk management, and system integration now determine credibility. Latvia offers a useful ca