Frankfurt Digital Finance
Frankfurt Digital Finance is an English-language conference in Frankfurt about technology and change in the European financial industry. Frankfurt Digital Finance brings people from banks and fintech companies together with investors, regulators and researchers.
Financial institutions developing digital services need to understand both new technology and the rules affecting their use. Frankfurt Digital Finance provides conference sessions on these business and regulatory questions. European Fintech Day, part of the event, gives startups and established organizations a setting to discuss products and potential partnerships.
Who organizes Frankfurt Digital Finance
Corinna Egerer and Max Hunzinger founded Frankfurt Digital Finance. The founders bring different experience to the event: Corinna Egerer has spent more than 20 years designing business events, and Max Hunzinger is managing director of MIT Event- & Incentive-Management, a company that has worked for financial services and industry clients for more than 25 years.
The organizers call FDF Germany's only English-speaking conference of its kind and give it the motto "Connecting the European Ecosystem". The conference links Frankfurt with other European fintech hubs, which is why the program, the speakers and the audience are international. The 2026 edition was the seventh. Compared with other digital finance conferences in Europe, such as Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam with its payments focus, FDF gives a whole track to EU regulation and supervision.
What the conference covers
The first day is the conference proper: keynotes, panels and workshops on the forces that move the financial industry. The 2026 program had five tracks: European capital markets integration, EU regulatory trends and supervision, open finance and SME banking, payments with digital money and digital assets. The fifth track brought generative AI together with quantum technologies. Geopolitics and the economy framed the opening sessions.
The second day is European Fintech Day. European Fintech Day brings fintech startups together with banks, investors and strategic partners through a startup exhibition, masterclasses, fireside chats and a live pitch session. Frankfurt Digital Finance and European Fintech Day are sold as one event.
Speakers and attendees
FDF draws decision-makers from banks and fintechs, investors, policymakers, regulators and researchers. Speakers at FDF 2026 included Piero Cipollone, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, Stéphane Boujnah, CEO of Euronext, and Nicola Beer, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank. The current line-up is on the speakers page of the conference.
Where FDF takes place
FDF 2026 took place at the Gesellschaftshaus Palmengarten, Palmengartenstraße 11, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, a historic event hall next to the botanical garden in the Westend. FDF 2027 takes place in Frankfurt. The European Central Bank is based in Frankfurt. The Deutsche Bundesbank is also based in the city. BaFin has a Frankfurt office, so regulators on stage often travel only a few kilometers.
Upcoming digital finance events in Frankfurt
When is FDF 2027?
Frankfurt Digital Finance 2027 takes place on 10 and 11 February 2027 in Frankfurt am Main. You can buy tickets for FDF 2027 directly from the organizer.
What is European Fintech Day?
European Fintech Day is the second day of Frankfurt Digital Finance. European Fintech Day is built for fintech startups and the banks and investors who work with them, with an exhibition, masterclasses, fireside chats and a pitch session. A ticket covers both days.
Is Frankfurt Digital Finance held in English?
Yes. The organizers describe FDF as Germany's only English-speaking conference of its kind, and all sessions run in English.
How is FDF different from the other Frankfurt conferences?
FDF covers the digital change of the whole financial industry, from capital markets and regulation to payments and AI. The Crypto Assets Conference at Frankfurt School concentrates on crypto assets and their regulation, and the Digital Euro Conference on central bank money, stablecoins and other digital money. Finance Loop is a partner of all three.
Frankfurt Digital Finance and Finance Loop
Finance Loop is a partner of Frankfurt Digital Finance. 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.
Finance Loop connects the finance, IT and AI communities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with events in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. If you go to FDF, you meet many of the same people at Finance Loop events during the rest of the year.