Holland Fintech
Holland FinTech is the association for the Dutch financial technology sector, operating as the Holland Fintech Association. The association brings together established financial institutions, startups and service providers across the financial value chain. Based in Amsterdam and funded through membership fees, Holland FinTech provides a professional network for companies developing and using financial technology.
Holland FinTech connects members through events, workshops and webinars, including the Amsterdam Fintech Event at the World Trade Center. Companies can meet potential partners, share experience and present their products to other participants in the Dutch market. Membership also offers opportunities for speaking, investor pitches and international exchanges, making the network useful to businesses seeking contacts beyond their own organization.
From Holland FinTech to the Holland Fintech Association
Don Ginsel founded Holland FinTech in 2014, as Silicon Canals reported when the association named a new chair. Holland FinTech used the name "The Fintech Association for the Netherlands", published guides on PSD2 and the fifth anti-money laundering directive and kept a Dutch FinTech Map of the sector.
Under the newer name the association lists more than 80 members, more than 15 events and more than 2,000 participants a year. A board led by Peter Strikwerda and an executive director, Job Mantz, run it, and the revenue model is membership fees.
Membership and the Amsterdam Fintech Event
A member gets events, workshops and webinars with peers, speaking slots and media channels for its own products, help finding partners and talent, discounts for international events, places on trade missions and pitch slots at investor events.
The main conference is the Amsterdam Fintech Event at the World Trade Center Amsterdam, held in October. The Amsterdam Fintech Event comes a few months after Money20/20 Europe at the RAI, which brings the international payments industry to the same city in June.
The Executive Fintech Summer School
Each summer Holland FinTech runs a two-day Executive Fintech Summer School with AI4Fintech, hosted by the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. The program covers developments in AI and fintech, fintech business ecosystems and regulation, with speakers from banking, law and fintech, and it takes at most 25 participants.
The Executive Fintech Summer School addresses executives, strategists, CTOs and corporate innovation teams, and it needs no technical background. For a German bank manager it is a compact way to hear how Dutch banks and fintechs handle AI under supervision.
Dutch supervision: the AFM and DNB InnovationHub
The Dutch supervisors run a joint contact point for new business models. The InnovationHub of the AFM and De Nederlandsche Bank answers questions on supervision and rules for innovative financial products, for new and existing firms and whether or not they are already supervised. The joint InnovationHub opened in 2016 as one entry point for both authorities.
iDEAL, the account-to-account scheme for online payments, is moving into Wero, as described at fintech in Amsterdam, and the same European scheme launches in Germany.
Upcoming fintech events in Europe
What is Holland FinTech?
Holland FinTech is the Dutch fintech association, founded in 2014 and now called the Holland Fintech Association. The Holland Fintech Association brings banks, insurers, fintechs and service providers in the Netherlands together through member events, the Amsterdam Fintech Event, trade missions and an executive summer school, and it is financed by membership fees.
Is there a Holland Fintech Week?
The association's large annual event today is the Amsterdam Fintech Event, held over two or three days in October at the World Trade Center Amsterdam. Holland FinTech also previously promoted the Amsterdam Fintech Week event.
How do you join Holland FinTech?
Organizations can apply for membership through the Holland Fintech Association membership page. Members are organizations from the financial value chain, from startups to established institutions, and the fee depends on the membership type. Non-members can attend the Amsterdam Fintech Event with a ticket and apply for the summer school at a higher price than members.
Holland FinTech and Finance Loop
Finance Loop works on the subjects Holland FinTech covers from the German side, as a professional network with more than 4,000 members and events in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. The Wero rollout links the two markets, since the scheme that replaces iDEAL in the Netherlands also launches in Germany. A Dutch fintech that wants German bank contacts can present at a Finance Loop meetup, run a webinar or host its own event with Finance Loop, and the free Network Membership brings the invitations.
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.