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🟣🌟 The annual Latvia Fintech Forum returns to Riga for the fourth time, bringing together leading voices in the financial technology industry for high-level discussions. The Latvian Fintech Forum serves as the country’s flagship platform for fostering growth in the fintech sector, facilitating an open dialogue between regulators, innovators, and investors, and reinforcing Latvia’s position as a strategic hub for building and scaling fintech businesses in the Northern Europe and the Baltics.
A key topic for the 2025 edition is the development and implementation of fintech strategies across Europe.
🌟 Among the event’s highlights is an open Q&A session with the Latvian regulator, the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, and the Riga Investment and Tourism Agency – be there and ask any question.
🚀 Furthermore, this year’s event will once again feature the highly anticipated Fintech Factor 2025 startup challenge, powered by Tenity, one of Europe’s premier fintech accelerators.
Program:
🟣 8:30 Registration & Networking at the Fintech breakfast
🟣 10:00 Opening speech | Arvils Ašeradens, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Latvia
🟣 10:05 Welcome address | Mārtiņš Kazāks, Governor of Latvijas Banka
🟣 10:15 Welcome address | Ieva Jāgere, Director General of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia
🟣 10:20 Welcome address | Representative of Riga City Council
🟣 10:30 Keynote: Latvia’s Fintech Strategy (2025–2027) | Santa Purgaile, Deputy Governor of Latvijas Banka
🟣 10:45 Panel discussion | From vision to action – building a forward-looking fintech strategy and improving the economic competitiveness
MODERATOR
🌟 Ian Hall, Global Government Fintech’s editor
SPEAKERS
🌟 Camille Pepos, Head of Fintech Supervision at the Malta Financial Services Authority
🌟 Charles Moussy, Head of Innovation and Digital Finance at the Autorité des Marchés Financiers
🌟 Marine Krasovska, Head of the Financial Technology Supervision Department at Latvijas Banka
🟣 12:00 Lunch
🟣 13:00 Keynote: Embedded, Tokenized, & Intelligent: What the future of fintech means for firms, markets and regulators | Caroline Malcolm, strategic advisor and lecturer; Policy and Practice Visitor at Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI
🟣 13:20 Panel | Ask us anything: Meet the regulator & investment agencies
MODERATOR
🌟 Edgars Pastars, Advisor to Finance Latvia Association, partner at COBALT Latvia
SPEAKERS
🌟 Jānis Katkovskis, Head of Payment Systems Operations Division of the Payment Systems Department of Latvijas Banka
🌟 Mārtiņš Grakauskis, Chief Supervision Expert of the Financial Technology Supervision Department of Latvijas Banka
🌟 Guna Janelsiņa, Chief Legal Advisor of the Licensing and Sanctions Department of Latvijas Banka
🌟 Olga Rehova, Chief Financial Technology Expert of the Financial Technology Supervision Department of Latvijas Banka
🌟 Elīna Upeniece, Chief Supervision Expert of Compliance Division of the Anti-money Laundering Department at Latvijas Banka
🌟 Fredis Bikovs, Director of the Riga Investment and Tourism Agency
🌟 A representative of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia
🚀 14:20 Startup Challenge "Fintech Factor 2025" by Tenity
🟣 15:30 Refreshments & networking
📆 Registration will open on 2 September and will remain open until the venue reaches full capacity, or until 23 September, whichever comes first.
🔗 Stay tuned for updates: https://fintechforum.lv/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mazā Ģilde, Amatu iela 5, Rīga, LV-1050, Latvija, Riga, Latvia
