EBAday 2026 - Fintech Zone

EBAday 2026 Fintech Zone

The Fintech Zone at EBAday provides a dedicated platform for early-stage companies with working products or proof-of-concept solutions to showcase how their technologies drive innovation, collaboration, and transformation across financial services.

Salv Crowned Fintech Zone 2026 Winner!
Following two high-energy days of live pitches to a panel of expert judges and senior banking executives in Copenhagen, we are thrilled to announce Salv as the official Fintech Zone 2026 Winner (sponsored by itea P2B).

A massive congratulations to the Salv team, and a huge thank you to our brilliant judging panel and everyone who packed out the Fintech Zone stage to support the pitches.
Read the full article here to learn more about Salv's win

Celebrating our 2026 Finalists

We would also like to extend our congratulations to all our 2026 finalists. Out of numerous entries from across the fintech landscape, these 16 innovative companies were selected to showcase the absolute best of industry innovation and real-world applications of emerging tools:

Currency Network, Devengo, Discai, EvolveSolTech, FinFlag, GUUT, Horizon Zero, ID-Bound, Ledger Rocket, Node16.ai, Payout, ProofRails, Safecypher, Salv (2026 Winner), Senus, SKJOLDET - The Shield

Read our pre-event feature article to learn more about each of our 2026 finalists

Look Ahead to EBAday 2027: Rome

In 2027, the Fintech Zone will return for its ninth year as we head to Rome from 15–16 June. We will once again welcome 16 early-stage fintech firms with products at the proof-of-concept, pilot, or early-stage level to demo live in front of our expert panel.

Applications are not yet open, but you can register your interest for 2027 today to receive updates on when the entry window opens, as well as exclusive access to early bird delegate rates.

> Register your interest for EBAday Fintech Zone 2027

Fintech Zone 2025

The Fintech Zone at EBAday 2025, held on May 27-28 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, once again highlighted high-potential innovation by showcasing 16 startups. Each of these finalists presented their product live and competed for the title of Fintech Zone Winner as part of the event's 20th anniversary edition, gaining a valuable opportunity to network with senior decision-makers across the European payments and transaction banking industry.

The Fintech Zone in Paris 2025 saw over 70 entrants from 8 countries - including participants from the USA and New Zealand - with 16 standout startups pitching live to an expert panel.

The startups shortlisted for the EBAday 2025 Fintech Zone were: A352 SARL, Adhara Ltd, Authologic, Bankify Oy, Cavefish, Consilient Inc, Instnt, Izi Payments Limited, KM2, FinCrime Limited, Open Finance AI, pAIscreen Limited, StopCrime GmbH, Tell Money, Limited, ToriiPay, Track A Payment (formerly Adnitio), and Trustfull.

2025 Fintech Zone Winner

We’re delighted to announce that Authologic has been crowned the Fintech Zone Winner at EBAday 2025, hosted at the iconic Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.

Authologic impressed the judges with their seamless solution that integrates government-issued digital IDs, identity wallets, and Bank IDs into existing KYC/AML & KYB infrastructure. No manual checks. No deep-fakes or forged documents. Their modular, no-code onboarding workflows are transforming digital identity verification.

A huge congratulations to Jarek Sygitowicz (Co-Founder) and the Authologic team!

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