BEX Banking Exchange
BEX Banking Exchange is a recurring conference series from Payment & Banking for the banking and fintech industry in Frankfurt am Main. BEX Banking Exchange brings together professionals from banks and financial-technology businesses. The series covers the development of banking services and payment systems.
The conferences give participants a setting for discussing business decisions with people who work in other parts of the industry. Talks and panel discussions examine how financial services are organized and how technology changes their delivery. Professional exchange and networking connect the program with the participants' day-to-day work.
Banking Exchange sessions
The BEX program addresses banking business models and the technology behind financial services. BEX subjects include stablecoins, the digital euro and tokenization. Discussions examine how payment instruments work and what they require from banks and service providers. The specific agenda and speakers are selected for each edition.
Instant payments and stablecoins have been discussed together at BEX, including the responsibility for funds when a payment moves immediately. Further subjects include identity verification and fraud, with the use of AI in banking among the technology questions. The wider topics include the digital euro in Germany, stablecoin payments and fraud prevention in Germany. These questions involve operating processes as well as the customer-facing service.
Banking Exchange and Payment Exchange
BEX Banking Exchange and Payment Exchange are separate conference series organized by Payment & Banking. BEX addresses banks and the development of their business, with payment technology among its subjects. Payment Exchange focuses on the payments sector, and each series has its own programs and arrangements.
The fields overlap when a bank provides a payment service or a technology provider connects to banking infrastructure. A discussion about an instant transfer can therefore involve both the institution holding the account and the service processing the payment. The pages on payments in Berlin and payments in Frankfurt describe the wider local context of these professional communities.
Why Frankfurt
Frankfurt holds the institutions that decide what a German bank may do. The ECB sets the monetary policy and supervises the large banks, the Bundesbank operates the payment infrastructure, and the Anti-Money Laundering Authority took its seat in the city. Finance in Frankfurt and digital banking in Frankfurt describe that concentration.
Frankfurt Digital Finance is another conference format in the city. Finance Loop organizes Frankfurt events on payments, instant transfers and the digital euro. The Finance Loop event calendar brings together professional events beyond a single conference series.
What is the BEX conference format?
The BEX format includes keynotes and panels, with networking alongside the conference program. The exchange concerns ideas and professional experience from the banking and fintech industry. Participants can compare approaches from different businesses and discuss questions raised by a presentation.
The series has held editions with different programs and durations. BEX has held a two-day edition; the format also includes one-day conferences. The recurring series is separate from any individual year's venue, ticket offer or agenda.
Who organizes Banking Exchange?
Payment & Banking organizes Banking Exchange and is the German media company for fintech, payments and digital banking, published by PBA Experts GmbH in Munich. The same group runs Payment Exchange in Berlin, KI Exchange and the Fintech des Jahres award.
Banking Exchange and Finance Loop
Finance Loop has members in the Frankfurt room at Banking Exchange, on stage and in the audience. Finance Loop is the meeting place for payments and digital banking in Frankfurt for the rest of the year, with meetups and conferences on instant transfers, card payments, the digital euro and tokenization. Finance Loop keeps those dates in its event calendar.
Finance Loop is a professional network supporting the institutional use 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.