Singapore FinTech Festival


Singapore FinTech Festival is a festival that connects the FinTech community around the world to interact with each other.

Background

SFF is the largest FinTech festival in the world and connects the FinTech community around the world.
SFF is organized annually by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in partnership with The Association of Banks in Singapore and in collaboration with SingEx Holdings.
Initial SFF 2016 had started with a number of features including the FinTech Awards, the Global FinTech Hackcelerator and three FinTech conferences which focused a number of topics such as API, Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning, RegTech and Tech Risk.
There were a number of international dignitaries participated including Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands and Arun Jaitley, India’s Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs.

2016

There were more than 13, 000 international participants from 60 countries in 2016.

2017

There were more than 30,000 international participants from 109 countries in 2017.
, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund addressing at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2017.
Nearly 40% of the participants were C-suite, senior management level decision makers and influencers.
There were 300 exhibiting companies and more than 100 startups with 8 country pavilions - France, India, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Poland, Switzerland and USA.

2018

There were more than 45,000 international participants from 130 countries in 2018.
, Prime Minister of Canada addressing at Singapore FinTech Festival in 2018
, Prime Minister of India and Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore at the Singapore FinTech Festival on November 14, 2018, in the presence of Vivek Pathak, Regional Director - East Asia and Pacific, IFC, Paul CG Wee, Secretary-General of ASEAN Bankers Association and Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore.

2019

There were more than 60,000 international participants from 140 countries in 2019.
, Prime Minister of Singapore visiting SFF exhibition pavilion with Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore in 2019.

SFF × SWITCH

SFF and Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology had the collaboration first time in 2019 with a week long events and activities focusing FinTech and deep technology.