{"id":11615,"date":"2026-06-02T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockwind.io\/hk-en\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:11:33","slug":"future-finance-fest-returns-after-money20-20-with-sharper-focus-on-payments-research-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockwind.io\/hk-en\/future-finance-fest-returns-after-money20-20-with-sharper-focus-on-payments-research-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Finance Fest returns after Money20\/20 with sharper focus on payments, research and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amsterdam encore: Future Finance Fest the day after Money20\/20<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 02, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Pan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future Finance Fest Returns to Amsterdam After Money20\/20 Europe<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future Finance Fest (3F) will land in Amsterdam on June 5, just one day after Money20\/20 Europe, with a proposition that sounds almost suspiciously efficient by fintech-conference standards: short, evidence-heavy presentations from people building, regulating and studying the future of finance. The event, known as 3f, is set for the nhow Amsterdam RAI hotel <\/strong>near the RAI convention complex and is built to bring digital finance leaders and finance scholars into the same room to accelerate what organizers describe as responsible financial innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridging Academia and Industry in Digital Finance<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Money 20\/20 EU attendees and those who miss the main Money conference, that pitch is more than calendar filler. This is where payment infrastructure, policy and deep-learning-era analytics are increasingly meeting in public, and where the gap between glossy product narrative and hard institutional reality gets tested. Blockwind News, a media partner to the conference, will be covering the arguments, ideas and market signals emerging from the sessions and side conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference is also building on a real first chapter, not a vaporware origin myth. The inaugural Future Finance Fest took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, Aug. 25 27, 2025. The conference\u2019s intellectual architect is David Stolin, a professor of finance at TBS Education in Toulouse, France. His research spans investment management, corporate governance, fintech and text analytics, which helps explain why 3f is not trying to choose between academic seriousness and market relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFintechs don\u2019t go to academic conferences, and scholars don\u2019t go to fintech ones. The whole point of 3f is to bring the two worlds together [for deeper learning and exchange,\u201d Stolin said. \u201cFuture Finance Fest is designed to close that gap, so practitioners can test ideas against evidence and researchers can test theory against the demands of real markets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference is being organized in collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for Finance, Technology and Regulation and Holland Fintech Association among a number of industry power houses, reinforcing its ambition to sit at the intersection of industry and scholarship. Eliot Qinyizhou, the co-organizer helping shape the Amsterdam edition, is positioning the event around speed, clarity and cross-border range rather than marathon panels and padded talking points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe built the program around 15 minute presentation windows because we wanted every session to be focused, concrete and useful. \u201d Qin said. \u201cIn a short format, speakers need to show what is changing, why it matters now, and what the evidence says across different markets. The goal is not to fill time with broad panels, but to create a sharper exchange between researchers, practitioners and policy-facing institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That format may be 3f\u2019s most underrated feature. According to event descriptions and partner materials, the conference is designed so fintech companies gain access to rigorous academic critique and potential research collaborators, while scholars gain practitioner feedback, proprietary market insight and direct exposure to institutions shaping digital finance. In plain English: less conference cardio, more signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three talks on the Amsterdam agenda stand out as a strong snapshot of global payments demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n