Our 2026 sponsors

KPMG LLP is the US firm of the KPMG global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. The KPMG global organization operates in 138 countries and territories and has more than 276,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG is a trusted leader in modern managed services, empowering organizations to achieve their goals through a unique combination of leading technologies, highly skilled professionals, and deep industry experience. Our collaborative and innovative approach focuses on delivering measurable outcomes and continuous improvement. We help clients optimize operations, enhance resilience, and find new opportunities for growth. With a commitment to client success, KPMG helps you navigate the complexities of today's business landscape while driving your strategic priorities. visit.kpmg.us/ManagedServices

Avanade is the world's leading Microsoft expert in AI for banking. Founded by Microsoft and Accenture, our 60,000+ professionals integrate human expertise, AI, and data to transform and elevate every part of your business — unlocking agentic AI's full potential, driving customer loyalty, and enhancing cyber resilience, faster.

Everpure helps banks modernize critical services with greater resilience, control, and confidence. Powered by Enterprise Data Cloud, Everpure unifies data across on premises and cloud environments to reduce operational complexity, strengthen recovery and security, and support the platforms behind payments, fraud, digital banking, analytics, and artificial intelligence. The result is lower operational risk and a stronger foundation for banking leaders to innovate with confidence. Learn more at Everpuredata.com.

Hyperlayer is the programmable banking platform that enables financial institutions to innovate at pace without replacing the core systems that underpin stability. Its configurable design enables banks, credit unions, wealth managers, and merchants to launch innovative financial products – including agentic solutions – quickly and cost-effectively while maintaining compliance and control. Hyperlayer works with Tier 1 through digital-native financial institutions to deliver highly personalised banking experiences across family banking, wealth management, RegTech, smart savings, and more, and is the technology behind the award-winning UK consumer money management and family banking app, HyperJar. A member of the prestigious and highly competitive global Mastercard Start Path programme, the company closed one of the biggest early-stage funding rounds for a European fintech in Q3 2025, raising £30m to support global expansion as demand for its plug-and-play financial technology grows. www.hyperlayer.com

More deposits. More loans. Less risk. Deliver a seamless digital experience with Plaid. Connect accounts fast, offer personalized insights, and automate income checks for smarter lending.

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get digitally enabled, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. As digital pioneers with 20,000 people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession – combined with our culture of curiosity and relentlessness – enables us to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.

AWS is the world's most comprehensive cloud, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and scale more efficiently. AWS is a pioneer at the intersection of financial services and technology, enabling tens of thousands of financial services organizations to optimize operations and push the boundaries of innovation with the broadest set of services and partner solutions – all while maintaining security, compliance, and resilience at scale.

Engageware is the most used AI-powered customer engagement platform for regulated industries. Trusted by more than 600 global enterprises – including 25% of the top 50 banks in the Americas and 20% of the top telecom providers – Engageware helps organizations modernize service and sales with governed conversational and generative AI that improves conversion, reduces contact center load, and strengthens customer trust across digital and human-assisted journeys. Engageware’s platform unifies AI customer agents, appointment scheduling, and knowledge management to seamlessly connect customers to the right answers and experts, and employees to the right guidance to help reduce costs, grow revenue, and manage risk at scale. Headquartered in the technology district outside of Boston with operations throughout Latin America, Engageware is a portfolio company of Clearhaven Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in software and technology businesses.  https://engageware.com/ https://www.clearhavenpartners.com/

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics, and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping financial institutions, companies, employers, and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. Our unique blend of differentiated data, analytics, and cloud technology drives insights to power decisions to move people forward. Headquartered in Atlanta and supported by nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, Equifax operates or has investments in 24 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit Equifax.com.

Large private credit firms and commercial banks don't need another chatbot. They need deep workflow automation across deal execution, portfolio management, and fund administration, grounded in their own institutional knowledge, and shaped to the specifics of how their teams actually work. F2 delivers that in a model-agnostic platform, honed on private markets investment data, paired with a bench of industry veteran Forward Deployed Engineers who build fully custom AI solutions tailored to each firm's workflows and deploy them in an enterprise-secure package. Over 100 enterprises trust F2 to own their AI transformation, rather than hand it to generalist LLM vendors with lower accuracy, higher blended token costs, and a clear design on leveraging sensitive client data to compete with those clients at scale. Large private credit firms and commercial banks don't need another chatbot. They need deep workflow automation across deal execution, portfolio management, and fund administration, grounded in their own institutional knowledge, and shaped to the specifics of how their teams actually work. F2 delivers that in a model-agnostic platform, honed on private markets investment data, paired with a bench of industry veteran Forward Deployed Engineers who build fully custom AI solutions tailored to each firm's workflows and deploy them in an enterprise-secure package. Over 100 enterprises trust F2 to own their AI transformation, rather than hand it to generalist LLM vendors with lower accuracy, higher blended token costs, and a clear design on leveraging sensitive client data to compete with those clients at scale. https://f2.ai/

Grep.ai: https://grep.ai/

HappyRobot is the platform to put agents to work for enterprises like DHL & Naturgy. Agents are autonomous AI workers capable of communication and coordination. To put them to work means deploying at scale across core business functions, from lead qualification to payment collection and service request to technician dispatch. HappyRobot's platform captures context and gets smarter from every agent interaction, enabling enterprises to continuously learn and improve.

Innova Solutions is a global technology and talent partner helping banks and financial institutions innovate, modernize operations, and unlock new revenue streams. Founded in 1998, we empower organizations to achieve measurable business outcomes through bold innovation, exceptional talent, and trusted partnerships. At the core of our approach is AIFICIENT™, our enterprise AI offering that embeds intelligence across the technology delivery lifecycle, helping organizations close the AI outcome gap. Backed by 27+ years of BFS expertise and trusted by 240+ financial institutions, including 6 of the top 10 global BFS companies, we deliver solutions across Digital Payments, BaaS & EmFi, AI Everywhere, Hyper-Personalization, Next-Gen Core Banking, and Digital Wealth. Together, these capabilities enable financial institutions to innovate faster, operate intelligently, and compete in an AI-driven world.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions includes seven brands that span multiple industries and sectors. We harness the power of data, sophisticated analytics platforms and technology solutions to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit LexisNexis Risk Solutions and RELX.

Naehas is the offer management, disclosure automation, and marketing compliance platform purpose-built for financial institutions. Where legacy marketing stacks were designed for campaigns, Naehas was designed for the regulated offer lifecycle: every product offer, rate, fee, and disclosure governed, approved, and delivered at the speed of digital banking.  The platform is built around the three outcomes financial institutions are measured on: revenue growth through faster, more relevant offers; compliance through automated disclosure governance; and relationship depth through cross-sell and retention at scale.  Six of the ten largest U.S. financial services companies by market cap trust Naehas to grow revenue, reduce risk, and accelerate value. Learn more at www.naehas.com.

Trusted by the global financial system, Nasdaq Verafin delivers cloud-based financial crime management technology that enables organizations to detect and disrupt financial crime. Visit www.verafin.com/eu

NEACH Payments Group (NPG) is a strategic payments advisory and risk management firm helping financial institutions modernize payment operations, strengthen governance, and identify sustainable growth opportunities. Specializing in treasury management, fraud risk management, and emerging payment strategies, NPG partners with banks and credit unions to navigate industry change while balancing innovation, compliance, and operational resilience.

Personetics, the Cognitive Banking Platform, is a pioneer in transforming how banks build and monetize customer relationships. Its AI-powered enterprise platform turns customer data into real-time transactional and digital intelligence, driving timely, relevant customer experiences and contextual actions that deliver measurable business outcomes. Serving leading financial institutions worldwide, Personetics continuously analyzes customer data to understand what is happening in each account holder’s financial life, elevating the customer experience and reinforcing the bank’s role as a trusted financial partner. For more information, visit https://personetics.com.

SAS is the global leader in data and AI, empowering banks to transform complex data into decisive actions with speed and precision. Our cloud-native platform accelerates digital transformation, strengthens risk management and ensures compliance. With advanced analytics, SAS helps banks boost customer intelligence and build operational resilience. Trusted by 90% of Fortune Global 500 banks, we deliver measurable outcomes to solve the industry’s toughest challenges. Learn more at sas.com/banking

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies for the Defence, Aerospace, and Cyber & Digital sectors. Its portfolio of innovative products and services helps address several major challenges: sovereignty, security, sustainability and inclusion. The Group allocates €4.5 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Quantum and Cloud technologies. Thales has more than 85,000 employees in 65 countries. In 2025, the Group generated sales of €22.1 billion.

Akoya helps financial institutions participate in open finance through secure, consumer permissioned data access that preserves institutional control. Built for banks, credit unions, and their partners, Akoya enables standardized, API-based data sharing that replaces credential based access and reduces the complexity of managing third-party connections. By combining proven technology with managed operational support, Akoya allows financial institutions to streamline third-party access, strengthen security and oversight, and adapt to evolving industry standards and regulatory expectations. Akoya’s approach helps institutions scale data access responsibly while focusing internal resources on delivering trusted digital experiences for their customers.

AtData, now part of Experian, helps financial services make more informed decisions by observing deterministic email-centered behavior across a proprietary activity network. While many identity signals provide a snapshot in time, AtData brings over 25 years of longitudinal email activity data, and processing over 150 billion signals monthly, revealing patterns of trust, stability, and risk that traditional identity attributes miss. Financial services and Fintech use these insights to strengthen fraud detection, improve customer acquisition, optimize account lifecycle decisions, and increase confidence across onboarding, authentication, payments, and portfolio management. As part of Experian, AtData’s unmatched email activity metrics are now combined with one of the most comprehensive data and analytics ecosystems, giving organizations a deeper, more complete understanding of identity to drive smarter decisions, reduce friction, and unlock growth.

BioCatch is a global leader in behavioral intelligence and digital fraud prevention. Its AI-driven platform analyzes behavioral, device, network, and transactional signals in real time to help financial institutions detect and prevent fraud, scams, account takeover, and financial crime. Trusted by leading financial institutions worldwide, including Barclays, HSBC or Santander, Banco BioCatch helps banks protect their customers while delivering secure and seamless digital banking experiences. https://www.biocatch.com/

Engine by Gen serves as the B2B brand of Gen (NASDAQ: GEN). Engine is the category-leading embedded finance marketplace platform, matching consumers with real-time, personalized financial product recommendations from the largest connected network of top providers—on mobile apps, websites, and other consumer touchpoints.

Footprint is the AI operating system for risk. Our agent, Percy, gives compliance teams the infrastructure to onboard and investigate every case in more depth, and less time. Percy resolves routine alerts automatically, and arrives first on complex ones with data pulled, sources cross-referenced, and reasoning documented -- so your team can apply their judgment more effectively. Our technology learns your SOPs and executes them deterministically, making every decision auditable from day one, and adaptive from day two. Natively integrated with the data sources you already trust, and built on bank-grade vaulting, Footprint is powerful enough to run your entire compliance program end-to-end, and flexible enough to work alongside your existing solutions.

Qolo builds the payments infrastructure that modern banks and B2B platforms have spent years trying to assemble from parts. One platform unifies virtual account management, card issuing and processing, and multi-rail payment orchestration. Qolo's founders bring over 70 combined years inside payments infrastructure, at the companies that built the rails and systems that banks and money movers are using today. That experience is the architecture that was created to close the gaps. No rip-and-replace of your core required. No fragmented vendor stack. One API on top of the infrastructure banks already run. Learn more at Qolo.io

TD Bank Group: https://www.td.com/us/en/about-us

Backbase built the AI-native Banking OS - the operating system that turns fragmented banking operations into a Unified Frontline. Customers, employees, and AI agents work as one across digital channels, front-office, and operations.Backbase was founded in 2003 by Jouk Pleiter and is headquartered in Amsterdam, with teams across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America. 120+ leading banks run on Backbase across Retail, SMB & Commercial, Private Banking, and Wealth Management.

Collabry is a consulting collective built to partner with financial services organizations to move critical initiatives forward with greater speed, clarity, and impact. Our consultants bring deep expertise across strategy, technology, operations, change management, and execution, giving clients access to the right implementers at the right time. As an extension of our client's team we help solve complex challenges, strengthen delivery, and turn strategy into action. Whether supporting a major transformation, filling a critical capability gap, or providing specialized leadership and execution support, Collabry offers a flexible, collaborative, individually designed approach. We combine deep industry experience with practical, hands-on execution so our clients can make progress faster, reduce friction, and deliver stronger outcomes.

Deluxe Marketing, a division of Deluxe, is a trusted leader in data-driven marketing solutions. By combining actionable data and analytics with full-service agency support, we help businesses reach and convert the right customers. Whether it’s strategic campaign design and consulting, data and audience integration, campaign production and deployment, or performance forecasting and attribution, we drive real, measurable results. To accelerate your growth, visit: https://www.deluxe.com/ddm/.

With more than 25 years of industry experience and offices in Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and London, Onbe is a fintech that manages and modernizes customer and compensation payments for corporate clients ranging from mid-market to the Fortune 500. Onbe’s team of experts and technology platform offers clients a turnkey solution to offload their entire B2C payment operations, relieving them of the cost, complexity and risk that come with orchestrating these payments in-house. Backed by top-tier investors, Onbe delivers on today’s consumer expectations for instant, digital and seamless payments. https://www.onbe.com/industries/banks-and-fis

Resistant AI document fraud detection software can check any document (from anywhere) for fraud and authenticity. In seconds. Trained on over 200 million documents, our AI gives onboarding, underwriting, and risk teams bionic eyes to catch invisible document fraud in bank statements, utility bills, certificates of incorporation, and any other document you need to verify. Never seen it before? In a different language than you’re used to? Resistant AI can verify it. We transform gut-feels into confident, evidence-based decisions perfectly tuned to your risk appetite. Dun & Bradstreet, Payoneer, Close Brothers, and PennyMac are just a few of our customers who have experienced up to 3x less fraud, 5x faster review times, and a 90% cut in manual reviews, achieving positive ROI in just a few months. Make your documents Resistant today.

SundaySky is the leading enterprise video personalization platform. We help banks and financial institutions cut through digital noise by delivering highly personalized video experiences at scale - turning generic communications into meaningful moments that drive measurable action. From new account onboarding and product education to marketing campaigns and compliance communications, SundaySky empowers banking teams to engage customers, grow relationships, and reduce service costs - without adding operational complexity. Trusted by leading financial institutions, SundaySky is purpose-built for regulated industries with enterprise-grade security, centralized compliance controls, and seamless integration with existing data and tech stacks.

Your fraud detection teams are always playing catch up. It’s time to give them a head start.  SurePay is the only fraud intelligence network that replaces blind spots, deception, and suspicion with certainty. With a network of 250+ banks and 20,000 organizations, we process over 12 million real-time checks per day. Our verification technology combined with our dual-sided network view creates certainty for your business: certainty about which accounts are real and which red flags are worth of your attention—before money moves. Banks in our network are cutting false positives in half. Businesses are verifying accounts and onboarding in milliseconds instead of days. The network is more than a complement to your existing infrastructure. It’s a layer of certainty that boosts your payment confidence and your bottom line.

We are a global tech company devoted to simplifying banking experiences. Through our business solutions, we inspire financial institutions to take digitalization to the next level. We are proud to be a key strategic partner for renowned clients across Latin America, North America, and Europe, helping them become the banks their customers prefer. By creating innovative customer-focused products, we empower over 50 million people to run their financial world.

TransUnion is a global information and insights company. We make trust possible by ensuring each person is reliably represented in the marketplace. Through our acquisitions and technology investments, we have developed innovative solutions that extend beyond our foundation in core credit, such as marketing, fraud, risk and advanced analytics. As a result, consumers and businesses can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good® — and it leads to economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for millions of people around the world.

Cobalt is purpose built for financial institutions. By continuously mapping enterprise systems, applications, data flows, and dependencies, Cobalt gives AI the understanding it needs to accelerate software delivery, reduce operational risk, and modernize software engineering across the SDLC. www.getcobalt.ai

Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents. Our technology allows partners to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly and compliantly through global payment cards, rewards, on/offramps, stablecoin and fiat wallets, and cross-border rails. As both a Visa and Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards that work at more than 175 million merchant locations in over 220 countries and territories. Built natively for stablecoins and trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain delivers secure, scalable infrastructure that makes money move freely and instantly around the world. https://www.rain.xyz/

Utila is the leading stablecoin and digital asset infrastructure platform for fintechs and enterprises. Utila enables organizations of all sizes to securely build, manage, and scale digital asset operations across stablecoin payments, treasury, trading, tokenization, and beyond. The platform combines institutional-grade MPC wallets, granular policy controls, robust APIs, multi-chain support, payment and tokenization engine, and deep integrations with banking, compliance, exchanges, DeFi, and more. Trusted by 300+ industry leaders, Utila processes more than $25B in monthly volume and has secured over $200B in transactions to date. https://utila.io/

The world of enterprise technology is soaring high. Every minute, new technological innovations are cropping up in different corners of the world. Every technologist out there wants to stay abreast of all the latest trends in enterprise technology and innovation. CIOInsights works to bring to all tech enthusiasts the latest information from the world of innovative enterprise solutions. This new world belongs to tech start-ups. We amalgamate all aspects of technology to give an unparalleled digital experience to our ambitious entrepreneurs striving to reach the top. We at CIOInsights magazine give our readers every thorough detail from every arena in technology. Visit us - www.cioinsights.com

Financial IT is a digital platform for multimedia and editorial content, rankings and overviews of major industry events. Financial IT magazine is published throughout the year in digital form. Financial IT magazine is available in print form at major trade events through our media partnerships. We believe that our competitive edge comes from our established relationships with financial IT companies and institutions, the breadth of the solutions described and the quality of content. Financial IT provides a detailed map of the everchanging space where the IT provider sector meets the broadly defined financial services sector. Visit our website: www.financialit.net

Finopotamus is an online publication created by industry veterans W.B. King, John San Filippo, and Roy Urrico to bring credit unions technology news, opinions and original content not found elsewhere. The publication looks at technology best practices across multiple industries to bring credit unions the broadest range of relevant information. The publication’s tagline is Fintech News for Hungry CUs. Visit Finopotamus at www.finopotamus.com.

PCN is a boutique fintech and payments recruitment agency with over 15 years of experience connecting exceptional talent with companies shaping the future of the industry. Backed by a global network of over 150,000 professionals and a 92% retention rate, PCN delivers lasting results. Known for deep industry knowledge and trusted relationships, the company makes hiring faster, smarter, and more effective.

The Fletcher Group is a trusted PR and marketing partner for growth-oriented fintech and payments companies and financial institutions. With 20 years of experience in the industry, our integrated approach features media relations, thought leadership, crisis mitigation, content marketing, and social media programs.

Your go-to source for fintech market insights. The Paypers covers the latest global news and analyses on payments, ecommerce, fintech, and the digital economy. We are a global hub for real-time news, expert insights and interviews, and in-depth analyses and resources across payments, fintech, and the digital economy. We deliver reports, webinars, and commentary on key topics such as regulation, innovation, cross-border payments, digital identity, and more – developed together with industry experts and leaders. Our coverage spans payments infrastructure, ecommerce, Open Banking, Embedded Finance, B2B payments, BaaS, crypto, and fraud and financial crime prevention. Stay tuned to our daily updates on trends, developments, product launches, funding, partnerships, and global market shifts.

The Power 50 produces annual guides to the most influential and innovative companies, anvisionary personalities shaping the fintech and payments industry. Each year they elect 40 innovative companies and 10 of the world’s best influencers. It acts as a much-needed reminder of all the great things we are achieving in the world of financial technology, and shines a spotlight on those who are transforming financial services for the better. Members don’t just get listed, it’s not about handing a badge or trophy, they actively promote their members year-round through an meticulously curated annual programme designed to support a company’s global growth. For more information about the Fintech Power 50, please visit: https://www.thepower50.com https://twitter.com/thepower_50 https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefintechpower50/ https://www.youtube.com/TheFintechPower50 Contact Us: Email: [email protected]