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Your ultimate guide to Banking, Fintech, Payments and Financial Services industry conferences and award opportunities.
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| Fintech Retreat San Francisco, CA | February 3-4, 2025 | Fintech Retreat redefines the essence of intimate gatherings, curating an exquisite experience for a limited audience of only 300 participants, who will be offered a rare glimpse into the unfiltered opinions and perspectives of the industry leaders. |
| FiNext Conference Dubai, UAE | February 10-11, 2025 | FiNext Conference & Expo was created to provide a digital hub and meeting place for the global financial sector, allowing tech start-ups, SMEs, incumbent tech providers, investors, institutions, and other stakeholders to connect and interact under one roof. |
| Women in Payments USA Symposium Washington D.C. | February 12-13, 2025 | The Women in Payments Symposium is a unique event that provides perspectives from key women leaders in payments, supports diversity and gender parity and includes topics impacting all aspects of the payments ecosystem. The 2025 theme is “Inspiration, Innovation, Inclusivity, Intention.” |
| Global Payments Summit Paris, France | February 19-21, 2025 | The Global Payments Summit gathers thought leaders from across an industry that is vital to support everyday lives and underpins the global economy. Join GPS to understand how your business can get ahead of these trends and gain a competitive advantage. |
| Future Digial Finance Connect New Orleans, LA | February 24-25, 2024 | Experience groundbreaking strategies and technologies to support your digital transformation goals, so you can better meet evolving customer expectations. Learn from fellow digital visionaries who are shaping the future of the banking. |
| STA Identity and Payments Summit San Diego, CA | February 24-26, 2025 | The Identity and Payment Summit will bring together leaders from the companies redefining identity, access and payments. It’s two forums – the Identity and Access Forum and the US Payments Forum – join together at the Summit to explore the cross-market technologies and issues. |
| Bank Automation Summit Nashville, TN | March 3-4, 2025 | Discover the future of finance, where state-of-the-art technology is implemented, stimulating the next phase of growth and innovation at your institution. Bank Automation Summit 2025 is the leading event for Chief Technology Officers and Chief Information Officers from banks of all sizes. |
| T3 Technology Conference Dallas, TX | March 3-6, 2025 | The largest-of-its-kind event focused exclusively on technology solutions for financial advisors and wealth management firms. |
| American Banker’s PAYMENTS FORUM San Francisco, CA | March 5-6, 2025 | PAYMENTS FORUM is where experts and leaders from financial institutions, card issuers, payments processors, merchants and retailers convene for strategic discussions about growing revenue and developing new products. |
| Fintech Meetup Las Vegas, NV | March 10-13, 2025 | As the first major fintech event of the year, it sets the tone for a year of innovation and growth. Start the year with the connections and insights that will fuel your success in the new era of fintech. |
| Merchant Payments Ecosystem Berlin, Germany | March 18-20, 2025 | With 18 years of experience, mpe is the leading conference in Europe’s merchant payments ecosystem, bringing together the brightest minds, groundbreaking innovations, and industry leaders to shape the future of payments. |
| Fintech Americas Miami, FL | March 18-20, 2025 | Over three action-packed days, Latin America’s industry leaders and visionaries will converge to exchange groundbreaking ideas and unveil the innovations that are transforming the future of finance. |
| Pay 360 London, England | March 25-26, 2025 | Pay360 is where 6000+ market leaders, innovative upstarts and payment innovators meet to swap ideas that will shape the future: miss it at your peril. |
| Credit Union 2025 Las Vegas, NV | March 25-27, 2025 | The National Credit Union Collections Alliance is a premier credit union industry organization providing information on up to date credit union related issues. We will be sharing best practices, facilitating communication and networking nationwide. |
| TRANSACT by ETA Las Vegas, NV | April 2-4, 2025 | Propel your business forward by tapping into the brightest minds, boldest ideas, and game-changing technologies redefining the future of payments. Experience three days of unmatched innovation and connection, where endless possibilities await your business. |
| 25th National Forum on Prepaid Accounts Compliance New York, NY | April 7, 2025 | Hear from an outstanding faculty including leading prepaid product companies, along with industry experts who will share how they are addressing the latest developments impacting the prepaid industry. Gain essential know-how for structuring new product offerings, mitigating risk and discuss compliance best practices. |
| The Financial Brand Forum Las Vegas, NV | April 14-16, 2025 | Packed with more than 60 hours of content and an all-star agenda with over 100+ speakers featuring the best and brightest minds in banking and visionary thought leaders from the most-respected companies on the planet. Forum will inspire bold new thinking and spark your creativity, driving your strategy forward in a time of disruptive change. |
| AI in Finance Summit New York, NY | April 15-16, 2025 | Exclusive insights and advanced technical use cases presented by AI experts and data scientists from the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance sectors |
| New York Fintech Week New York, NY | April 21-25, 2025 | Designed to be an inclusive collaboration of the entire startup ecosystem. New York Fintech Week is a series of events highlighing different fintch initiatives and range from conferences and invitation-only roundtables toe vents free to the community. |
| CPPO Prepaid Symposium Toronto, ON | April 24, 2025 | The premier event for the Canadian prepaid industry, focusing on how Canadian banks, fintech entrepreneurs and governments can accelerate innovation by leveraging prepaid platforms to create impactful financial solutions that and meet the demands of a rapidly digitizing society. |
| Smarter Faster Payments by Nacha New Orleans, LA | April 27-30, 2025 | Where the future of payments comes clear. Smarter Faster Payments is a unique industry venue designed for diverse organizations that are driving innovation, delivering value through new solutions and services, and employing these offerings to meet their business needs and transact with their customers. |
| IPA Innovative Payments Conference Washington D.C. | April 29-May 1, 2025 | Benefit from two days of cutting-edge content, discussions and enhanced networking as you engage directly with those leading the way in payments compliance, legislation, regulation and innovation. |
| The Payments Canada SUMMIT Toronto, ON | May 6-8, 2025 | The SUMMIT is where the best minds in payments connect and collaborate. We invite you to join us for this engaging two-and-a-half-day event and unlock the future of payments alongside fellow innovators, leaders and experts. |
| Finovate Spring San Diego, CA | May 7-9, 2025 | Unique, short-form demos and expert speakers reveal the future of tech, banking, payments, financial crime and SMB financing. |
| Consensus 2025 by CoinDesk Toronto, ON | May 14-16, 2025 | Since 2015, Consensus has been the world’s largest, most diverse gathering of the cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3 communities produced by award-winning crypto media outlet CoinDesk. |
| The U.S. Fintech Symposium Oak Brook, IL | June 2-4, 2025 | Aconference reshaping the fintech landscape by hosting conversations about partnerships and growth strategies. Nestled against a serene lakeside backdrop, our conference stands apart by prioritizing meaningful conversations over typical presentations. |
| EMERGE Financial Health San Diego, CA | June 3-5, 2025 | EMERGE unites innovators across industries to learn, collaborate, and improve the future of finhealth. Explore our lineup of virtual and in-person events, podcasts, and resources to stay in the know on financial health, all year long. |
| American Banker’s DIGITAL BANKING Boca Raton, FL | June 3-5, 2025 | Centers around an experiential environment designed to showcase the innovation and customer experiences banks must deliver to compete in the emerging landscape. |
| Remote Connect by Nacha Virtual | June 9-11, 2025 | The virtual version of Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments. An exceptional virtual event experience, Remote Connect offers a multitude of live sessions with speaker Q&A and more. |
| Fintech + Insurtech Generations Charlotte, NC | June 11-12, 2025 | C-Suite executives, senior leaders, and the most influential names in finance and insurance paired with the next unicorn founders, rising talent, and the sharpest minds in the industry. |
| Open Banking Expo Canada Toronto, ON | June 17, 2025 | Step into the vibrant world of Open Banking Expo events – where innovation knows no bounds and the boldest minds in the industry converge. These aren’t just gatherings; they’re immersive experiences, pulsating with the energy of those fearlessly leading the charge in shaping the future of Open Banking and Open Finance. |
| Banking Transformation Summit London, England | June 18-19, 2025 | Banking Transformation Summit brings together the brightest minds and industry leaders to deliver a 360-degree view of the ever-evolving banking landscape. |
| PaymentsEd Forum Anaheim, CA | July 28-30, 2025 | The Payments Ed Forum has been among the top payment education and networking events for 35 years. Each year merchants, advisors and service providers attend the forum and learn from the great educational content and fellow attendees. |
| Fintech Devcon Denver, CO | August 4-6, 2025 | fintech_devcon is exclusively designed to educate and empower fintech builders. Learn hands-on tools, best practices, and industry secrets from actual builders in fintech today—no sales pitches allowed. |
| Fintech Talents North America New York, NY | September 2-3, 2025 | Brings together a community of innovators and collaborators redefining financial services across a continent, with participants from credit unions, community banks and tier one financial institutions. |
| Future Identity Finance New York, NY | September 2-3, 2025 | Explores how digital identity can reduce fraud, enhance compliance and build customer trust in an evolving financial services landscape. |
| FTT Embedded Finance & Super-Apps New York, NY | September 2-3, 2025 | Convening an exciting and disruptive community of retailers, manufacturers, insurers, telcos, financial institutions, fintechs and tech innovators. |
| Finovate Fall New York, NY | September 8-10, 2025 | The world’s premier fintech showcase & meetings hotspot showcases cutting-edge banking and financial technology through short-form demos and key insights from thought-leaders. |
| FinCon 2025 Portland, OR | September 10-12, 2025 | The business event for money creators a time to connect with other creators who create new media about financial topics. The majority of creators also attend to connect with brands for advertising partnerships. |
| MoneyLive North America Chicago, IL | September 15-15, 2025 | Over 800 industry leaders across the USA and Canada will unite in forge the future of banking & payments. Take part in high-impact, high-value networking, gain unparalleled insights from banking heavyweights and uncover transformational strategies that leave the world behind. |
| Sibos Frankfurt, Germany | September 29 – Oct 2, 2025 | What started out as a banking operations seminar in 1978, has grown into the premier business forum for the global financial community to debate and collaborate in the areas of payments, securities, cash management and trade. |
| Money20/20 USA Las Vegas, NV | October 26-29, 2025 | The largest fintech and payments event in the world that gathers thought leaders who create and explore the disruptive ways in which consumers and businesses manage, spend and borrow money. |
| TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 San Francisco, CA | TBD October, 2025 | The global startup community comes together each year to discover insights, collaborate and celebrate achievements that have defined each founder’s journey and for those yet to come in the future. |
| Advise AI Las Vegas, NV | TBD October, 2025 | Presented by Financial Planning, Advise AI is a brand new conference designed to guide wealth management leaders in leveraging AI and machine learning to scale operations, improve client engagement and grow. |
| Boston Fintech Week Boston, MA | TBD October, 2025 | BFTW brings you speakers you wouldn’t see anywhere else and the opportunity to make meaningful connections with the innovators, regulators, and investors building the future of financial services. It is an inclusive conversation amongst thousands of industry leaders and emerging fintechs from around the world. |
| CrossTech World 2025 TBD | TBD November, 2025 | CrossTech hosts some of the top fintech and cross border payment conferences in the world along with providing management and consulting services. |
| Banking Transformation Summit North America TBD | TBD November, 2025 | Banking Transformation Summit brings together the brightest minds and industry leaders to deliver a 360-degree view of the ever-evolving banking landscape. |
| The Clearing House Annual Conference New York, NY | TBD November, 2025 | This premier industry gathering annually brings together senior financial services executives, policymakers, technology companies and professional services firms to address the challenges and opportunities facing the industry through a thoughtful dialogue. |
| VentureTech TBD | TBD November, 2025 | The premier fintech showcase event for the entire credit union industry in one place; credit unions, CUSO’s, credit union leagues, credit union venture groups and credit union companies. |
| Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards New York, NY | TBD, November 2025 | The ultimate gathering for fintech innovators, investors, and industry leaders. A transformative experience that blends cutting-edge financial technology insights with unparalleled networking opportunities. |
| FTT Embedded Finance & Super-Apps San Francisco, CA | December 2-3, 2025 | Convening an exciting and disruptive community of retailers, manufacturers, insurers, telcos, financial institutions, fintechs and tech innovators. |
| Future Identity Customer San Francisco, CA | December 2-3, 2025 | Discover how consumer facing businesses in financial services, retail, gaming, entertainment, travel, healthcare and other forward-thinking industries are approaching digital identity. |
| FinTech Connect 2025 London, England | TBD December, 2025 | Our mission is to connect the global thought-leaders across the fintech ecosystem in an event like no other. FinTech Connect brings together visionaries from the UK, Europe and beyond; shaping the future of how we all interact with financial services. |
| Award | Deadline | description |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 Forbes Fintech 50 | November 15, 2024 | Highlights the top private companies that are transforming finance through technology. |
| 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards | January 10, 2025 | Recognizes the breakthrough companies and products in the global financial services and technology industry today. |
| 2025 FinTech Awards | Janaury 24, 2025 | Celebrates the brightest and the best in financial technology. Open to organizations across the globe, the FinTech Awards is an initiative by the team behind the distinguished Cloud Awards and SaaS Awards. |
| Merchant Payment Ecosystem Awards 2025 | January, 2025 | European awards recognizing and rewarding expertise and innovation in merchant payments ecosystems. |
| 2025 Nacha 15 Under 40 Awards | January 31, 2025 | A prestigious initiative that seeks to identify and celebrate outstanding individuals under the age of 40 who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation, and dedication to advancing the payments landscape. |
| 2025 Banking Tech Awards USA by Fintech Futures | February 7, 2025 | Offers categories for banks, financial institutions, software providers, teams and individuals to enter. |
| 2025 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards | February, 2025 | Recognizes professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, industry bodies and regulators that have made significant strides and noteworthy achievements in operational excellence. |
| The Pay360 Awards 2025 | April, 2025 | Based in the UK, these awards celebrate innovation and collaboration by recognizing companies that have made significant advances in how we pay today. |
| Fintech 100 by CB Insights 2025 | March, 2025 | Recognizes the top 100 most promising public fintechs in the world, with a new focus on startup and growth stage companies. |
| PayTech Awards by Fintech Futures 2025 | March, 2025 | Recognizes exceptional contributions to the payments industry. The event showcased the diverse and innovative landscape of payment solutions, from emerging fintech start-ups to established industry giants. |
| 2025 Finovate Awards | June, 2025 | Recognizes the companies driving fintech innovation forward and the individuals bringing new ideas to life. We crown 23 winners in fields like alternative investing, UX/CX, payments, DeFi, and more. |
| 2025 US Fintech Awards | June, 2025 | These awards were developed to celebrate this incredible community, and the achievements and successes of the country’s best and brightest. The categories are designed to cover the full spectrum of fintech, and submissions are judged by an independent panel of experts. |
| 2025 American Financial Technology Awards | September, 2025 | Hosted by WatersTechnology, the AFTAs recognize excellence in the deployment and management of financial technology within the asset management and investment banking communities. |
| 2025 Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards | September, 2025 | Designed to showcase the latest advancements in fintech, celebrate industry achievements, and foster connections that drive the future of finance. |
| 2026 Cards and Payment Awards | September, 2025 | The Card & Payments Awards recognise excellence and innovation across the industry. Each year many eligible organisations compete for one of the prestigious awards which are judged by an independent panel of industry experts. |
| 2026 Women in Payments Awards | October, 2025 | Recognizes the achievements of women who have distinguished themselves as leaders, innovators, rising stars and consummate professionals. |
| 2026 American Banker’s Most Influential Women in Payments | October, 2025 | Celebrates senior executives guiding the future of the global payments industry, while also examining topics of leadership, mentorship and inclusion. |
| 2026 Forbes Fintech 50 | November, 2025 | Highlights the top private companies that are transforming finance through technology. |
