Singapore FinTech Festival

Singapore FinTech Festival is the largest annual fintech gathering in the world, convened by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Elevandi and the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN). Now in its 11th edition, SFF is built around the policy-finance-technology triangle and serves as the principal annual checkpoint for global central bank governors, regulators, fintech founders and institutional buyers across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

What happens at Singapore FinTech Festival

• Six thematic stages spanning the main conference programme covering AI in finance, digital assets and tokenisation, cross-border payments, sustainability finance, ASEAN and emerging markets, and regulation
• Global FinTech Hackcelerator - MAS's flagship innovation competition surfacing solutions to industry problem statements
• Investor Hours and curated 1:1 dealmaking across the SFF Investor Lounge with regional VCs and corporate venture arms
• SFF After Hours - citywide social and networking programme across Singapore's CBD and Marina Bay

Who attends

The room reflects the broadest cross-section of the global fintech ecosystem: central bank governors and regulators (MAS, BSP, Bank Indonesia, BoT, RBI, HKMA, ECB, Federal Reserve), Tier-1 banks (DBS, OCBC, UOB, Standard Chartered, HSBC, Citi, JPMorgan), Asian fintech unicorns (Grab Financial, Sea, Ant International, Wise, Nium), card networks and global payments players (Visa, Mastercard, Swift, Stripe, Adyen), institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds, and a vast representation of ASEAN-region fintech startups and infrastructure providers. SFF is not a retail-only consumer event and not a crypto-conference in the traditional sense - it is the policy-led annual gathering where Asia-Pacific fintech regulation is set in dialogue with the technology that has to implement it.

Dominant themes at Singapore FinTech Festival 2026

• Asset tokenisation under Project Guardian and the future of wholesale settlement
• Digital Singapore Dollar (Project Orchid) progress and purpose-bound money use cases
• ASEAN regional payment connectivity, QR interoperability and Project Nexus
• AI agents, agentic commerce and the impact on KYC/AML and fraud orchestration
• Stablecoin regulation in Singapore (MAS Stablecoin Framework) and global divergence vs MiCA
• Variable Capital Company (VCC) regime and fund tokenisation pilots
• Cross-border CBDC interoperability and BIS Innovation Hub projects
• ESG and transition finance data infrastructure
• Open finance and SGFinDex evolution

Planning to attend

Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) is consistently ranked the world's best airport and is twenty minutes by MRT from the Singapore EXPO venue, which sits adjacent to its own MRT station on the Downtown Line. The Marina Bay, Orchard and CBD hotel zones fill four to six months ahead because SFF coincides with regional banking conferences and the Singapore Grand Prix calendar; book early. For B2B vendors, align outreach with the broader November Asia banking calendar including the Sibos aftermath and the year-end Hong Kong FinTech Week the week before.

Use the expense calculator below to estimate the total cost of attending - registration, flights, hotels, meals, and ground transport - based on your origin city.