Euro Finance Week 2025
The 28th Euro Finance Week ran from Monday, November 17 to Friday, November 21, 2025 in Frankfurt am Main. The dfv Euro Finance Group organized it. The week opened with a conference on risk and resilience, held its Tech Day on November 19 at the Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof and closed with the 35th Frankfurt European Banking Congress at the Alte Oper.
The next edition is the Euro Finance Week 2026.
Opening conference on November 17
The opening conference was titled "Between Risk & Resilience: Setting the course for the European financial industry". ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos gave the opening impulse. Five sessions followed, each named for a factor: strategic, digital, human, investment and regulatory. In the strategic session the chief executives of DZ BANK, Commerzbank, DKB, BNP Paribas Germany, Helaba, HSBC Germany and ING Germany sat on one panel. The digital session brought in AWS, NVIDIA, Siemens Financial Services, Mercedes-Benz Mobility and Hamburg Commercial Bank.
The regulatory session was on anti-money laundering, with Bruna Szego, chair of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority in Frankfurt, the SCHUFA chief executive and risk and compliance heads of BNP Paribas Germany, ING Germany and Deutsche Bank. Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz gave the closing keynote.
Tech Day on November 19
The 2025 Tech Day ran under "Navigating artificial finance > AI, Web3 & Qubits". Bundesbank board member Fritzi Köhler-Geib opened it. Future Talks came from Deutsche Bank, AWS, Helaba and Microsoft, followed by parallel deep dives on mainframe migration with agentic AI, sovereign data spaces and AI risk management.
The afternoon had a panel on technology directions with Commerzbank, DZ BANK, WIBank and the Boerse Stuttgart Group, a session on quantum computing with JoS QUANTUM and Helaba moderated by TechQuartier, and a payments panel titled "The Future of Payments: Instant, Cross-Border & AI-driven?" with Unzer, Goldman Sachs and HSBC. The last panel, "DeFi for the People", asked who actually uses decentralized finance; Pekuna, Bitvavo and Blockchain Founders Capital took part, in cooperation with the Frankfurt web3 association GM, FFM!. In the evening Frankfurt Forward presented its Startup of the Year award.
Banking Congress on November 21
The 35th Frankfurt European Banking Congress met on November 21, 2025 at the Alte Oper under the theme "Investing in Europe", as the congress's archive lists it.
Registration for the 2025 week closed on November 10, 2025. The organizer gave the security rules of the week as the reason.
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When was the Euro Finance Week 2025?
From November 17 to 21, 2025, in Frankfurt am Main.
When is the next Euro Finance Week?
The 29th edition runs from November 16 to 20, 2026. Dates and tickets are on Euro Finance Week 2026.
Euro Finance Week 2025 and Finance Loop
Finance Loop is the meeting place in Frankfurt for the week's technology subjects through the year, from AI agents in banks to payments and DeFi, with dates in its event calendar and on networking events in Frankfurt.
Finance Loop members join its events through a membership. Partners can reach the same people by sponsoring a meetup, by hosting an event or through the partner program.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the adoption 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.