The FinTech Scotland Festival is a one-week celebration of innovation and collaboration across Scotland’s fintech landscape, with strong links across the UK and around the world. Now in its ninth edition, the festival brings together industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers and academics to explore the future of financial services, showcase the achievements of Scotland’s fintech cluster and spark new partnerships.
Themes
This year’s themes champion inclusive innovation, financial wellbeing and sustainable growth, highlighting the people, technologies and policy ideas shaping a fair, resilient and high‑growth financial services sector.
Future technologies
Consumers and citizens
Innovation and growth
Financial regulation and innovation
Programme
Our programme will be updated regularly.
Fuelling Growth: Innovation in Financial Services
Edinburgh
Registration opening soon
Launch Reception
Edinburgh
Invitation only
Future Technologies Day
Glasgow
Registration opening soon
Financial Regulation & Innovation
Glasgow
Registration opening soon
Q3 Strategic Partner Gathering
Edinburgh
Invitation only
Women in Fintech – Evening Networking
Edinburgh
Registration opening soon
Fintech Summit 2026
Edinburgh
Scottish Financial Technology Awards
Edinburgh
Fringe Events
Alongside the main programme, Fringe events organised by external organisations take place throughout the Festival, covering topics relevant to the fintech community.
If you’d like your event to feature as a Fringe event, get in touch.
Edinburgh Decentralised Finance Summit 2026
9:00 – 20:00
Edinburgh
Get involved
Host a fringe event
Propose an in‑person, online or hybrid fringe event to run during the festival week. Approved events will be listed on our website and promoted as part of the festival.
Speak at a session
Share your expertise as a speaker or panelist. We welcome proposals from industry, start-ups, investors, academia and the public sector.