Digital Finance in Frankfurt

Digital finance in Frankfurt covers the technology layer on top of the city's traditional banking and capital-markets business: digital assets and tokenization, the digital euro, open finance and open banking, and the AI tools banks now use in trading and risk. Frankfurt's position as the seat of the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank means digital finance policy for the euro area is often drafted a few streets from where a fintech is building the product it will regulate.

Deutsche Börse Group's digital-assets unit and Frankfurt's banks run pilots and licensed services side by side, from tokenized funds to instant-payment rails, which is why a Frankfurt digital finance event usually mixes bank innovation teams with fintech founders on the same stage.

Frankfurt Digital Finance (FDF), part of the European Fintech Day, brings together European finance and fintech leaders to discuss digital assets, AI and the regulation shaping the next stage of the industry, held at the Gesellschaftshaus Palmengarten. The Crypto Assets Conference at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the Digital Euro Conference of the Digital Euro Association cover the digital-assets and digital-money sides of the same field, often in the same week each spring. Capital & Code, hosted by the euro stablecoin issuer AllUnity with Finance Loop as media partner, covers stablecoins, tokenized funds and payments, and d-fine's Frankfurt Forum on Digital Assets & Applications brings DekaBank, 21X, the Bundesbank, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank together on DLT-based market infrastructure.

These conferences target decision-makers from banks, asset managers, central banks and supervisory authorities, which sets Frankfurt's digital finance events apart from the founder-and-developer meetups more common in Berlin.

The Digital Euro Association, a Frankfurt think tank, covers the design and rollout of a digital euro together with stablecoins and other forms of digital money, with speakers from central banks, commercial banks and fintechs. A survey by the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University, funded by Frankfurt Main Finance, found that more than 60 percent of German finance professionals see no need for a digital euro. On the payments side, the wallet Wero runs on the EU's instant-payment rail in Germany and three other countries, an example of the open, bank-owned infrastructure that digital finance in Frankfurt increasingly builds on.

The EU's Financial Data Access Regulation (FIDA), still in trilogue negotiation as of 2026, would extend the account-access rights of open banking beyond payment accounts to savings, investment and insurance data, a change Frankfurt's banks and fintechs are already tracking for their next products.

Finance Loop is the meeting place for people in Frankfurt who build digital finance products at banks, fintechs and infrastructure providers. It connects the finance, IT and AI communities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and is built in collaboration with TechQuartier and Frankfurt Main Finance.

Finance Loop has partnered with Frankfurt Digital Finance, the Crypto Assets Conference and the Digital Euro Conference, and it hosts its own Digital Finance Night after the spring conference season. It was an official sponsor of CAC 2025, has a strategic cooperation with 21X, the Frankfurt trading venue for tokenized securities, and ran side events during Sibos 2025 and AI Week Frankfurt. Related pages: finance in Frankfurt, Frankfurt finance and crypto assets in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt Digital Finance is a conference held as part of the European Fintech Day, bringing European finance and fintech leaders together on digital assets, AI and regulation. Finance Loop has partnered with it; current dates are on the conference page.

Frankfurt Digital Finance, the Crypto Assets Conference at Frankfurt School and the Digital Euro Conference are the main digital finance conferences in the city, usually held within days of each other each spring. Current dates are in the events calendar.