Where Europe’s finance & tech ecosystem meets
FIBE brings together Europe’s finance and tech ecosystem, creating connections that can evolve into partnerships, products and long-term collaborations.
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A good conversation at a festival is easy to have. The interesting part is what happens afterwards.
At FIBE, people from banks, fintechs, startups, investors, technology providers and regulators come together in the same place. Some conversations stay just that — conversations. Others turn into introductions, partnerships, products and new ways of working.
That’s the potential of FIBE as a matchmaking platform: putting the right people in the room and giving them the space to find out what they can build together.
We’ve already seen this happen.
How meetings turn into collaborations
At FIBE, ALL AML first connected with We Build Products. A conversation at the FIBE stand developed into a collaboration around KYC risk intelligence. Today, the resulting platform is live and being implemented with clients.
Another FIBE connection took a different route. A conversation between Synapze and Solaris SE around AI, banking operations and regulatory requirements continued long after the festival. Over time, the relationship evolved into an advisory role and ultimately into a collaboration to build the Zero Operations Transformation Programme.
These stories are different, but they have something in common: neither started with a formal deal on a stage. They started with people meeting, recognising a shared problem and continuing the conversation.
And that is what we want FIBE to enable.
Not every meeting will become a partnership. That’s not the point. The value is in bringing a broad cross-section of Europe’s finance and tech ecosystem together - and creating enough opportunities for the right connections to happen.
What can happen at FIBE?
For founders and fintechs: meet potential customers, investors, partners and people who understand the problems you are trying to solve.
For banks and financial institutions: discover new technologies, potential partners and fresh approaches to challenges that are difficult to solve alone.
For investors: meet founders, emerging businesses and other people shaping the markets they are investing in.
For technology providers: connect with the financial institutions and fintechs that can turn technology into real-world applications.
For the wider ecosystem: find the people who can help turn an idea, problem or first conversation into something more concrete.
FIBE is not a guarantee that a meeting will lead somewhere. It is a place designed to make those meetings possible.
And sometimes, that first conversation is all it takes to start something neither side expected.
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For companies looking to become part of the FIBE ecosystem, our Partner Factsheet explains the different ways to get involved.