Euro Finance Week 2025
The Euro Finance Week 2025 was a five-day conference program for the banking and financial industry in Frankfurt. It ran from 17 to 21 November and brought financial institutions together with representatives of business and public policy. The opening conference examined risk and resilience, and later sessions covered financial technology and investment.
The dfv Euro Finance Group organized this 28th edition, with Tech Day on 19 November at the Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof. The 35th Frankfurt European Banking Congress closed the week at the Alte Oper. The 2026 edition continues the series, which gives participants a forum to discuss changes in financial services and the economy.
Opening conference on 17 November
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 19 November
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 21 November
The 35th Frankfurt European Banking Congress met on 21 November 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 10 November 2025. The organizer gave the security rules of the week as the reason.
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When was the Euro Finance Week 2025?
The Euro Finance Week 2025 ran from 17-21 November 2025, in Frankfurt am Main.
When is the next Euro Finance Week?
The 29th edition runs from 16-20 November 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 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.