IFGS 2024 Wrap Up

And that’s a wrap! The Innovate Finance Global Summit 2024 has come to a close.

During the Summit there has been so much positivity and optimism around the future of UK FinTech, the best FinTech ecosystem in the world with an ever growing community of innovators. 

We have explored what our vision as an industry is for the next decade, and more importantly, how we can deliver on that vision. Where we as a sector, as a community, want to be in ten years time, and how we get there. What the industry needs from the government and the regulators to keep doing what you do to create value. And how we can all - industry, government and regulators - work together to realise that vision.

We have heard about the Innovate Finance Unicorn Council for UK FinTech, which we launched earlier this year, and which met at the Summit, co-founded by Zilch and co-chaired by Clearbank and Revolut, convening the CEO’s of the highest growth FinTechs in the UK to advocate for policies that are necessary to keep our incredible FinTechs growing and scaling and listing here, for the benefit of our economy and consumers across the country.

IFGS 2024 has been an incredible success.

• Over 1,600 delegates in attendance 
• More than 2,000 meetings booked through the IFGS app
• More than 50 international delegations 
• 78 sessions across 3 stages
• 10 policy roundtables
• 300 speakers representing a truly diverse community. We were honoured to receive a welcome video from the Right Honourable Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and on stage Bim Afolami MP, Tulip Siddiq MP, representatives from the Bank of England, the FCA, the House of Lords and more.
• CEOs of the highest growing FinTechs on stage, including Monzo, Zopa, OakNorth, Clearbank, TrueLayer, Zilch, Robinhood UK, Blockchain.com, Coinbase UK, ClearBank, Thought Machine, Revolut UK, ClearScore, Allica, Atom, iwoca and many, many more … 
• 10 cutting-edge FinTechs pitching their solutions to the audience and an esteemed panel of at Pitch360. Congratulations to the winners people's choice winner Cogo and judge's winner Kestrl.
• 4 reports launched for IFGS 2024:
  • Setting the pace or keeping up – are FinTech boards future-fit? by EY and Innovate Finance looking at the importance of having proper governance and an outstanding Board at all levels of FinTech growth
  •  The Open Finance Roadmap by KPMG and Innovate Finance provides a framework and provocation for conversation and debate on how the UK can take forward its Open Finance landscape
  • RegTech Test: Identifying The Policy Impact on Compliance in collaboration with the City of London Corporation looking at how can we facilitate broader adoption of Regtech solutions
  • Scaling UK Regional FinTech in collaboration with Whitecap Consulting and Streets Consulting delving into the growth and development of 250 of the UK’s regional FinTech scaleups 

Special Thanks

Thank you to all our incredible Innovate Finance members, speakers and exhibitors who joined us over the past two days for the 10th annual anniversary edition of Innovate Finance Global Summit.

To all our gold sponsors Clearpay, Square, DBT, Barclays, silver sponsors LSEG, SC Ventures, WNS, Gowling WLG, Robinhood, bronze sponsors Innovate UK, Canadian Tech Accelerator, Skadden Arps (UK) LLP, Finimize, Miquido, OpenPayd, Evelyn Partners, Williams Lea, Finance Malta, Malta Enterprise, VISA, Zilch and drinks sponsor Coinbase.

Thanks to our media partners AFME, Business Report, BBC StoryWorks, CityAM, FinTech Finance News, Finextra, Financial IT, Finder, FinTech Futures, Fintrail, ITN, The Paypers, The FinTech Times, Trade Finance Global, TFN and to all national and international journalists joining us at the Summit.

Thanks to our Charity Partner The Money Charity.

To our board including our Chair Louise Smith.

To our event partner for ten years Seven Hills.

To the City of London for hosting our Summit in the historic Guildhall.

And most importantly thanks to our incredible Innovate Finance team.

The entire Innovate Finance team is grateful for all of you joining our 10th Global Summit this year! It is our favourite event of the year as we celebrate all the amazing work that you all do on a daily basis to transform financial services for the better. As always, thank you for all that you do. Now in its 10th successive year, the Innovate Finance Global Summit kicked off UK FinTech Week 2024 today, proving this annual gathering’s popularity and value remain as strong as ever.

Don't forget to register for our UK FinTech Week Closing Party on Thursday 18th April, hosted at Level39, the original home of Innovate Finance.

The Meeting Zone in full flow

The Unicorn Council for UK FinTech with Bim Afolami MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury