UK & Europe’s only dedicated Open Banking and Open Finance show

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For the power of Open Banking and the opportunity of Open Finance to be fully realised, collaboration is non-negotiable. This is where it happens; the innovators, disruptors and decision-makers come together to move the industry forward, build meaningful partnerships and shape what comes next for regulation and real-world adoption.

With the Smart Data Bill now in force, 2026 is about execution, not theory. Across four stages each day, plus The Engine Room podcast studio, the agenda brings together Open Banking, Open Finance, payments, Smart Data, trust & identity and the biggest issues shaping the market.

Alongside the conference programme, watch live podcast conversations in The Engine Room, experience our new audience-led Question Time format, connect with the industry in the Networking Zone and meet 40+ exhibitors shaping the future of financial services.

The Open Banking Expo Awards return on 13 October, celebrating the standout organisations and individuals driving the industry forward following a record year for entries.

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Why attend

The conversations that matter

Across two days, 200+ industry leaders from financial services, fintech, payments, retail, leisure, utilities, telecoms and beyond share how they are turning strategy into execution in an Open Data world. Walk away with real insight, practical use cases and the connections that move your business forward.

Open Banking Expo Awards

Day 1 is where the industry comes together to recognise the companies and individuals actually moving the needle. With a record-breaking 47% increase in entries this year, see who takes home the trophies across Open Banking, Open Finance and Open Banking payments, and celebrate with the people setting the standard.

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Meet your next partner

If you’re serious about moving faster, this is where it happens. The Expo floor brings together the companies shaping Open Banking, Open Finance and Open Banking Payments, ready to show, demo and partner.

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Meet the people that matter

Don’t leave it to chance. Use the event app to lock in meetings, build your network and connect with the partners, prospects and decision-makers who can move your business forward.

There’s more happening at Open Banking Expo

New formats, live conversations and exclusive events across two packed days.

NEW FOR 2026

The Engine Room

Where the industry’s conversations come to life. Watch live podcast recordings or apply for a 30-minute slot to record your own.

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NEW FOR 2026

Question Time

You ask. They answer. No presentations. No pre-agreed questions. Just an unscripted, audience-led debate on the issues that matter.

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PRE-SHOW

Regulator Day

A curated gathering bringing together regulators and policymakers from across global markets ahead of Open Banking Expo UK & Europe.

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Show news & interviews

Commercial VRP approaches wider adoption as industry highlights new payment opportunities

Industry leaders call for clearer consumer protections as agentic payments develop

InvestEngine achieves 98% payment success rate with commercial VRP

261102 AI agents could render traditional payment authentication obsolete

AI agents could render traditional payment authentication obsolete, warns Dr Ruth Wandhöfer

From data access to real-world impact: Is Open Banking ready to prove its value?

FCA to test Open Finance infrastructure models as agentic AI reshapes data sharing

Open Banking payments must overcome reliability and data gaps to compete with cards, industry leaders warn

Open Banking Expo Awards 2026: Winners celebrated in London following 46% rise in entries

FCA’s Andrew Self, Dr Ruth Wandhöfer and former Big Brother producer Maz Farrelly headline Open Banking Expo UK & Europe next week

See Planky in action at Open Banking Expo UK & Europe

Relentless Defence: What security leaders in financial services reveal about the AI era

How digital fraud is shifting to the mobile layer

Ozone API presents ‘The Boring Book’ at Open Banking Expo UK & Europe

Cambridge Open Banking & Open Finance Course

Meet the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Open Banking Expo

Demos, debate and socks: Meet Raidiam at Stand G11

Discover OpenBankConnect by Nagarro: Powering ecosystems from Open Banking to Open Industry

UK government backs Onteric to build the world’s first AI agents that can prove every decision

Can Open Finance deliver growth through financial inclusion?

Salt Edge returns to Open Banking Expo UK & Europe

Fraud is winning: Why identity, AML and Open Banking need to work together

What the industry is saying

Rating 4.7 out of 5

"Open Banking Expo is one of our favourite FinTech events in the world and the premier Open Banking conference."

Joe Roche, General Manager, Fintech North

"Thank you for another exceptional show, Open Banking Expo! Not only is it the UK and Europe’s only Open Banking dedicated show, but it's an exceptional event by any measure. Top-notch content, and the new layout was buzzing with people throughout both days."

Jess Gerrow, VP Marketing, Token.io

"It’s really important to be here as Open Banking is on the cusp of something truly significant in the UK. Open Banking Expo stands out because it’s so focused on what customers really want, and anyone who hasn’t attended is really missing out!"

Paul Horlock, Chief Payments Officer, Santander

"Thank you for having me again this year! Massive congrats to Adam, Kelly, Ellie, and Lillie on a brilliant, bigger, and even more fabulous Expo."

Alex Bloomfield, Assistant Commercial Director, HMRC

"Just wrapped up an incredible experience at Open Banking Expo in London! Packed with insightful discussions, groundbreaking innovations, and industry leaders shaping the future of Open Banking."

Maria Roszkowska, Digital Solutions Director, Bank of America

"The reason I attend Open Banking Expo is that it’s an incredibly efficient place where everyone’s here – all the knowledge, experience, and insights. It’s an unbeatable networking opportunity."

Louise Beaumont, Senior Vice President, Mastercard

"Thanks for another fantastic Open Banking Expo. The team did an amazing job, and the expanded layout was spot on!"

Kyle Masterson, Founder, SHIFT Open Finance Community

"It’s always a highlight catching up with familiar faces and making new connections. A massive thank you to Adam Cox and the team for organising such a well-run and impactful event!"

Bart Willeart, EVP Open Banking, International Markets

Headliners

Check out our full speaker roster here.

Jessica Bilcock

Public Policy & Vulnerability Manager

Pavle Avramovic

Director of Research & Policy

Janusz Diemko

Payments Executive & Industry Advisor

Garri Galanter

Chief Executive Officer

Gavin Starks

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Lord (Chris) Holmes of Richmond MBE

Member

Joe Roche

General Manager

Alex Marsh

Chief Executive Officer

James Ringrow

Director of Strategy

Dr Yalini Pathy

UK Chief Executive Officer

Ellen Fitzgerald

Product Engineer

Julian Wells

Head of Communications

Guneet Kaur

Vice President, Banking Transformation & Product Leader

Elcio Calefi

Chief Information Officer

Christie H. Kristensen

Strategic Integration Partnerships Director

Charlie Mercer

Deputy Executive Director

Steffen Vollert

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Lotta Rauséus

Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Conrad Ford

Chief Product & Strategy Officer

Michelle Stanley

Director Head of API and Integrations, Global Transaction Banking

James Brown

Chief Executive Officer

Ilia Dragan

Chief Product Officer

Michelle He

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Alejandro Servín

Head of Embedded Finance

David Cox

Payments Strategy Lead

Liz Brandt

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jack Williams

Financial Crime Compliance Lead

Hayden Sutherland

Founder & Chair

Camila Saunders

Head of International Payments & Open Finance, Financial Services

Caroline Cartellieri

Non-Executive Director

Chris Harris

Managing Director, Mastercard Open Banking Services

Rob Lay

Chief Technology Officer & Solutions Engineering Director

Ana Carla Abrão Costa

Chief Executive Officer

Samantha Ewing

Customer Journey Manager

Sailesh Panchal

Chief Technology Officer

Adam Betteridge

Head of Sales Transformation

George Miltiadous

Head of Open Banking

Kate Wells

Research Officer

Tom Hill

Chief Executive Officer

Stephen Winyard

Chief Sales Officer

Todd Clyde

Chief Executive Officer

Jane Rimscaia

Chief Marketing Officer

James Hodgson

Chief Executive Officer

Joris Hensen

Open Finance Lead

Josh D’Addario

Head of Consultancy

Rob Bratby

General Counsel

James Neville

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Helena Wood

Head of Economic Crime Strategy

Vladimir Bendikow

Chief Data Officer

Siobhan Dennehy

Deputy Director for Smart Data policy & Competition Analysis

John Jackson

Head of Payment Strategy

Hannah Regan

Public & Regulatory Policy & Government Affairs Manager

Amit Mallick

European Digital Payments Lead, Managing Director

Sanya Juneja

Open Finance Lead

Adam Hubbard

Payment Strategy Specialist

Sam Coe

Product Director, Affordability and Verifications

Agnieszka Scott

Head of Smart Data

Nimeshh Patel

Chief Executive Officer

Marie Walker

Open Futurist

Jason Sheehy

Head of Identity

Ruth Ray

Managing Director, Economic Crime

Russell Moore

Chief Executive Officer

Daniel Rajčan

Chief Technology Officer

Nicola Breyer

Open Finance Advisor & Expert

Alistair Boyer

AI Commerical Strategy

Aswin Peter

Senior Product Strategy & CX Leader, Energy & Utilities

Claire Turner Tait

Head of Product, Affordability, Open Banking & Consumer Search

Nick Davey

Head of Strategy

Sophia Zhang

Product Manager, Global Payments Soultions

Sam Seaton

Co-Chair, Smart Data Council

Katie Davies

Head of Energy & Infrastructure Policy

Magdalena Getler

Head of Research Growth

Joanna Michalska

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Ekaterina Borisova

Technical Specialist, Smart Data Accelerator

Ghela Boskovich

Head of Europe

Sinead Kanlioglu

Client Services Director, Social Enterprise

Heather Xiao

Founder and CEO

Jack Spiers

Senior Director, Issuing & Risk

Hakan Eroglu

Advisor, Technology & Innovation Open Finance, Payments, Digital Currencies

Alex Weaving

Chief Commercial Officer

Lawerence Byers

Principal Product Manager

Rowan Millett-Ling

Senior Product Manager

Ermal Ngjeci Ngjeci

Head of Portfolio Management

Jean Guillaume

Chief Executive Officer

Lauren Jones

Open Banking Lead

Søren Rode Jain Andreasen

Head of Daily Banking & Channels

Jagdish Udayakumar

Global Payments & Financial Crime Soultions Product Management

Samantha Emery

Strategic Advisor

John Penrose

Chair of the Conservative Party’s in-house Think Tank & Former MP & Government Minister

Jen Lothian

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Angela Hesketh

Board Member

Clare Pearson

Founder

Helen Owen

Vice President of Marketing

Laura McCracken

Founder & Director

Faith Reynolds

Director, Devon Fields Consulting

Anna Wallace

Chief Executive Officer

Matthew Widick

Director of Data Enablement

Matt Jackson

Vice President, Partner Management

Ed McKeown

Director of Product, Consumer Data

Matthew Hunt

Advisory Board Member

Marion King

Chair & Trustee

Sovon Chatterjee

Director, Payment Products - Regional Product Management, Europe

Ezechi Britton

Co-Founder & Director

Lena Miglbauer

Chief Revenue Officer

Rosalind Singleton

Director of Technology & Business Architecture

Simon Stokes

Head of FinTech, M&A

Matthew Wallace

Head of Standards

Dominique Cranstone

Senior Account Manager

Tim Kelleway

Managing Director

Savannah Price

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Craig Wills

Managing Director

Matthew Haines

Payment Products & Proposition Senior Manager

Henk Van Hulle

Chief Executive Officer

Megan Caywood

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Anton Kornilov

Founder & Payments & Growth Strategy Advisor

Sarah Kok

Chief Marketing Officer

Maz Farrelly

Keynote speaker, Business Development, MC & Host

Uri Tintore

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Derya Demirbüker

Director, Open Banking & Fast Overlay Services Product Management

Tim Flagg

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Nilixa Devlukia

Chair

Avik Banerjee

Product Managment, Payment Propositions

Christopher Petersen

Founder

Phoebe Zhou

Global Head of Client Solutions

Grant Evans

Co-Founder & Co-Host

Lena Hackelöer

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Alexandra Bloomfield

Assistant Commercial Director, Financial Services

Nick Maynard

Vice President of Research

David Parker

Director

Phillip Mind

Director for Digital Technology & Innovation

Katharina Luschnik

Vice President, Open Finance

John Karantzis

Chief Executive Officer

Chris Corbett

Head of Product, Europe

Huw Davies

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Sacha Zarb

Senior Product Manager

Matteo Gamba

Payments Fraud & Fintech, Independent Advisor

Paul Rhodes

Senior Strategy & Policy Manager

Simon Lyons

Chief Strategy Officer

Mark Rydqvist

Managing Director EMEA Financial Services

Robert Sullivan

Public Policy & Strategy Director

Dr Ruth Wandhöfer

Global Fintech 50 Influencer

Andrew Self

Head of Department, Open Banking & Open Finance

Adam Chapman

Founder & Consultant, AC Marketing

Amanda Harrison

Senior Advisor

Ben Diner

Consumer Payments Product Director

Stephen Wright

Head of Open Banking

Michelle Beyo

Chief Executive Officer & President

David Thomasson

Managing Director, Business Transaction Banking

Fope Agbedia

Senior Vice President Product Management

Helen Doyle

Head of National Payments Vision

Alex Kirykowicz

Director

Sina Saidinayer

Co-Founder

Richard Koch

Managing Director

Mathew Tuvesson

Vice President, Product

Ian Chapman

Head of Product

Teresa Lam

Head of Open Finance & Open Data

Raffaele Brusco

Open Banking Payments & Data Lead

Simone Plances

Manager, Smart Data Accelerator

Paul Horlock

Chief Payments Officer

Clare Ambrosino

Co-Founder

Charles Damen

Chief Product Officer

Melanie Reid

Payment Strategy Lead

Dil-veer Kang

Senior Counsel, Alternate Solutions Group

Shiona Crichton

Chief Executive Officer

Keith Grose

Regional Managing Director UK & Europe

Wasim Mushtaq

Founder

Dan Feaheny

Principal, Feeney Fintech

Angus Blest

Head of Commercial, UK

Daniel Jenkinson

Open Banking Senior Policy Manager

Emma Lundy

Senior Account Manager

Joe Wilson

Chief Evangelist and former Board Member & Chief Operating Officer

Tristan Blampied

Director, Head of Domestic Payment Products

Luis Claudio-Jaramillo

Senior Digital Product Owner, Open Finance & Embedded Banking

Janine Hirt

Chief Executive Officer

Louise Beaumont

Member, Smart Data Council

Andy Smith

Chief Executive Officer

Emily Rayment

Head of Public Policy

Cameron Flood

Head of Product

Garreth Dorree

Managing Director

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The award-winning Open Banking Expo UK & Europe returns bigger than ever.

Your ticket unlocks four stages of content each day, plus The Engine Room, bringing together Open Banking, Open Finance, payments, Smart Data and trust & identity under one roof.

From major debates and practical case studies to live podcast conversations and audience-led discussion, every part of the programme is designed to move you from strategy to execution.

Beyond the stages, connect in the Networking Zone, explore the Innovation Zone and meet 40+ exhibitors shaping the future of Open Banking, Open Finance and Open Banking payments.