Fintech Austria
Fintech Austria is an association that calls itself the community and interest group of the Austrian fintech sector. It works for the growth of fintech in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe by bringing founders, banks and regulators into contact. It holds meetups in Vienna and organizes the FintechWeek Vienna, a non-profit week of fintech events.
Alexander Valtingojer, who leads the crypto wealth manager Coinpanion, is president. Aleksandar Vrglevski, technology expert for blockchain, fintech and open source at the Vienna Business Agency and member of the strategic board of the Austrian Blockchain Center, is vice president.
FintechWeek Vienna
The FintechWeek Vienna aims to bring the fintech startups, the established banks and the regulators together. According to Fintech Austria, its past editions drew more than 11,000 visitors to 88 events and worked with more than 240 partners. Partners host single events across the city, from keynotes and workshops to networking evenings.
Topics have included AI, cybersecurity, ESG, payments, regtech, crypto and financial literacy. The FMA, which supervises fintech firms in Vienna, holds a fintech day of its own as part of the week.
Meetups with founders and the FMA
Fintech Austria has held more than a dozen meetups. At the tenth, in June 2018 at the SkyLounge of Raiffeisen Bank International, Deposit Solutions, Gini and N26 spoke about their start in Austria. The fourteenth was a small networking meeting at the FMA, where the authority presented its fintech contact point and regulatory sandbox.
Upcoming fintech and finance events in Austria
When is the FintechWeek Vienna?
The 2026 edition is planned for 23 to 27 November in Vienna. Fintech Austria publishes the single events and the registration on its website.
How do you contact Fintech Austria?
Through info@fintechaustria.org or the newsletter on the association's website. Partners who want to host an event during the FintechWeek Vienna write to the same address.
Fintech Austria and Finance Loop
A fintech firm with an Austrian license can serve German clients on the EU passport, and German fintech firms look at Vienna for the sandbox of the FMA and its early MiCA licenses. Finance Loop brings people from the fintech scenes of Vienna, Munich and Frankfurt together at its events on payments, digital assets and AI in finance.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the adoption of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, tokenization, stablecoins, and DeFi. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.