The Financial Services Commission announced that the 2026 Korea Fintech Week is scheduled to be held for three days from November 25 to 27 at aT Center (Yangjae-dong) in Seoul.
Korea Fintech Week is the largest fintech exhibition and festival organized by Korea, providing a venue for sharing the latest fintech trends on artificial intelligence (AI) and other innovative technologies with vast opportunities to attract investment and seek collaboration for fintech businesses.
The eighth annual global fintech expo this year will be held under the theme of “Beyond Finance, Into the Future,” focusing on the future of financial innovation and technologies.
Alongside the existing partnership organizations, there will be six more partnership organizations newly taking part in this year’s fintech expo, offering the largest number of programs thus far (35 programs) to meet demands from diverse groups of participants.
Exhibition halls for this year’s festival will be organized into Fintech Pavilion, Financial Pavilion, Partner Pavilion, and Global Pavilion. The number of participating businesses will be expanded by about 20 percent from the previous year. This will help to showcase more innovative financial services using AI, blockchain, smart contract, and deepfake detection technologies.
There will be national fintech pavilions set up in Global Pavilion to demonstrate unique financial technologies and innovative services coming from different countries and to facilitate international fintech exchanges and collaboration.
Meanwhile, the 2026 Korea Fintech Week will invite renowned experts and speakers on fintech and financial policy and global technology trend and offer seminars on the issues concerning future financial technologies, such as agentic AI, quantum computing, digital assets, cybersecurity technologies, etc.
In addition, there will be various programs designed to promote fintech investment and business collaboration. The “tech-finder” showcase program will help to identify and introduce promising fintechs and startups to financial companies, while the “reverse IR” and “investor meet-up” events will help to provide investment matching opportunities tailored to the needs of fintech businesses.
The 2026 Korea Fintech Week will also offer a variety of exciting programs and useful information for ordinary visitors in the form of seminars and employment counseling and finance job matching programs for young adults.
To make sure that visitors are able to take tours based on their individual needs and interests, a docent-guided tour will be made available on-site, which will help to provide more comprehensive overviews and detailed insights into key exhibitions and innovative technologies for ordinary citizens.
For organizations and businesses wishing to participate in exhibition booths at this year’s Korea Fintech Week, application will be available from Thursday, July 30. Application for the 9th fintech idea contest will open on Monday, August 3. For more information, please contact the secretariat’s office for the 2026 Korea Fintech Week (+82-02-424-5821 or fintechweek@fintech.or.kr).
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