FinTech Connect London 2026

FinTech Connect is a London fintech conference and exhibition run by IQPC, which bills it as the largest event in the UK devoted to fintech and says it has been held since 2014. The 2026 edition takes place on 1 and 2 December at Excel London on Royal Victoria Dock. The venue is on the DLR, about five minutes from London City Airport. The audience comes mainly from banking and payments: technology, risk and compliance staff at banks, fintech founders and sales teams, plus a group of venture and corporate investors picked by invitation rather than open sign-up. The organiser lists HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, JPMorgan, Mastercard, Visa, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs among firms sending teams, and Accel, Index Ventures, Balderton, Atomico, Anthemis and Dawn Capital among the investors. It cites 6,000+ professionals, 250+ speakers, 150+ exhibitors and visitors from 59 countries, and reported 8,500+ registrations six weeks out against a 6,000 visitor target. Content runs across seven tracks on separate stages: Digital Assets and Tokenisation, Business Banking Innovation (new this year, covering SME lending, embedded finance and open banking), Payments, RegTech/Financial Security and Compliance, Digital Transformation, AI in Finance, and FinTech Marketing. The digital assets sessions take in RWA tokenisation, MiCA, the FCA sandbox and the digital pound, while the payments stage deals with PSD3, ISO 20022, real-time infrastructure, stablecoin rules and AI-based fraud detection. Day 1 includes a Komerční Banka case study and a talk on agentic AI. There is also an expo floor, meeting requests and an evening reception on 1 December. The Executive Pass is free but limited to bank employees, and every application is vetted. General Access starts at £99 and covers the floor without the reception. Full Access, which opens every theatre and allows unlimited meeting requests, ranges from £395 to £649 depending on when it is booked, and a cheaper Startup Access pass offers the same for young companies. Paid prices exclude VAT; journalists can request a media pass. For affiliates the fit is indirect. This is a banking and payments event, not a traffic show. Its value lies with finance and crypto publishers who want to meet payment providers, compliance vendors and fintech brands that buy marketing, and the FinTech Marketing track is the closest point of contact. Sessions on MiCA, stablecoins and PSD3 are useful background for anyone promoting crypto or trading products to UK and EU audiences.