Fintech Hub Frankfurt
Fintech Hub Frankfurt is the Frankfurt hub for financial technology within Germany's federal de:hub initiative. TechQuartier connects startup founders with established companies through programs, accelerators and shared working space. The hub helps financial firms and technology teams develop products together and test how they work in practice.
At TechQuartier, startups can meet banks, payment providers and investors who understand the requirements of financial services. Programs support product development, partnerships and fundraising, with financial infrastructure as a focus. Frankfurt Main Finance was among the organizations that helped establish the startup center within Frankfurt's financial ecosystem.
What the de:hub gives fintech startups, banks and investors
A fintech startup at the hub gets in touch with banks and insurers that test new products. TechQuartier counts more than 750 startups and over 30 corporate partners in its network and has run 170 programs since 2018. The current programs at TechQuartier include a Digital Finance program, Fundraising Readiness for founders before a round, an accelerator and Hessen10 for startups from the state of Hesse. The coworking floors have more than 240 desks.
For a bank or another established company, de:hub describes a route from a named problem to a pilot with a startup and then to scale. The de:hub offer for companies has a Program Finder, an Expert Finder and the de:hub Journey, which takes owners and managers of mid-sized firms to test labs and coworking spaces in the hubs. Investors use the Start-up Finder, which lists more than 1,000 startups from all de:hubs and lets investors and companies contact them directly. At the de:hub Pitch Night, eight selected startups with use cases already tested in industry or the public sector pitch to investors, corporate leaders and policymakers.
Payments and digital finance at the hub
Payments is one of the fintech fields the hub works on. TechQuartier and VR Payment run the Payment Roundtable, a closed format for heads of payment service providers, payment strategists and compliance officers. The first Payment Roundtable edition dealt with regulatory risk, the growth potential of card payments and how payment service providers can work together. The wider payments scene of the city is on payments in Frankfurt.
TechQuartier also works outside finance. The de:hub in Frankfurt also works on AI, quantum computing, GreenTech and services for mid-sized companies. TechQuartier hosts the IMPACT FESTIVAL, which it calls "Europe's largest B2B event for sustainable innovation", and the Tech & Data Lab Frankfurt.
How the fintech hub Frankfurt began
In April 2016 Deutsche Börse opened a fintech hub with about 60 workstations for its first four startups. The Deutsche Börse fintech hub was part of the fintech initiative of the Hessian state government, which planned a startup center for the Frankfurt fintech cluster. That center is TechQuartier. The State of Hesse, the City of Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt Main Finance and the development bank WIBank carried the project, and it was to open in the Pollux tower with 114 workplaces, as Private Banking Magazin reported (in German). De:hub now names WIBank, Goethe University, TU Darmstadt and the City of Frankfurt as its shareholders.
A Startup Genome survey named fintech one of three internationally competitive fields of the Frankfurt startup scene. Of the venture capital raised in Frankfurt between 2012 and 2017, 55 percent went into fintech.
Upcoming fintech events in Frankfurt
Finance Loop events at the hub
Finance Loop is based at TechQuartier and holds many of its evenings there. The afterwork party TechClub 25/3 ran in collaboration with TechQuartier, as did the Sibos 2025 side event presented by Frankfurt Main Finance and OKX Institutional. The MarketVector Indexes panel on index investing and digital assets took place at TechQuartier, and TechQuartier co-hosted Navigating the Future of Finance, a Chainlink panel with Finance Loop.
What is the fintech hub in Frankfurt?
Frankfurt's fintech hub is TechQuartier, the de:hub for fintech in Frankfurt. The de:hub initiative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has 25 hubs, each with a city and a sector, and Frankfurt carries the sector FinTech. The page on the Digital Hub Initiative describes the whole network.
Is the fintech hub the same as the Digital Hub FrankfurtRheinMain?
The Digital Hub FrankfurtRheinMain is an association that the City of Frankfurt founded with companies such as DE-CIX to promote the region as a digital node. The fintech hub in the de:hub network is TechQuartier.
Which other de:hubs work on finance?
Berlin has the second fintech hub, run by the House of Finance and Tech and described on de:hub Berlin. Insurance has two hubs: InsurLab Germany in Cologne and the InsurTech Hub Munich.
Fintech Hub Frankfurt and Finance Loop
Finance Loop is built in collaboration with Frankfurt Main Finance and TechQuartier, the Frankfurt de:hub for fintech. Anyone who works in finance can join as a member, host an event or sponsor a meetup with Finance Loop, and partnerships cover longer cooperation. Fintech growth describes the route into the German finance market, and fintech in Frankfurt the scene around the hub.
Finance Loop is a professional network supporting the institutional use of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, digital payments, cloud and blockchain solutions. 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.