Singapore FinTech Festival
Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) is the world’s largest FinTech festival and a global knowledge event. It is held every year in Singapore at the Singapore Expo and is organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, with partners Global Finance & Technology Network, Constellar, and the Association of Banks in Singapore.
The festival began in 2016 with the FinTech Awards, the Global FinTech Hackcelerator, and three conferences covering topics like APIs, Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning, RegTech, and Tech Risk.
Attendance has grown each year:
- 2016: about 13,000 participants from 60 countries
- 2017: 30,000 from 109 countries
- 2018: 45,000 from 130 countries
- 2019: 60,000 from 140 countries (attendees included professionals, founders, investors, academics, and government agencies; all of the world’s top 50 banks attended)
The Conference and Exhibition featured about 569 speakers and nearly 1,000 exhibitors from around the world, with 41 international pavilions.
In 2019, SFF partnered with the Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) for a week of FinTech and deep-tech events. Notable attendees included Christine Lagarde, Justin Trudeau, Narendra Modi, Queen Máxima, Arun Jaitley, Dr. Agustin Carstens, Dr. Patrick Njoroge, and Lee Hsien Loong.
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