Published to clients: September 9, 2025 ID: TBW2068
Published to Readers: September 10, 2025
Published to Email Whispers: TBD
Published Publicly with Video: TBD
Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Abstract:
“Trust in fintech isn’t just about compliance—it’s a multi-dimensional strategy. This report explores how transparency, privacy, and strong identity verification shape consumer confidence. Insights from Fintech Meetup 2025 reveal how leading firms are navigating open banking, fraud prevention, and data ethics to earn and retain trust. If trust is your brand’s currency, this report is your blueprint. “
The 2024 Fintech Meetup experienced a 25% increase in size, featuring over 50,000 one-on-one meetings. Key areas of interest included development environments, product connectors, customer engagement solutions, and ACH payment simplification. Risk management and compliance were significant themes, with solutions for identifying threats, ensuring regulatory adherence, and verifying new clients. Identity verification and fraud prevention were also highlighted. Global risk decisioning platforms and extensive marketplaces were showcased, along with solutions for digital payouts, gift cards, and depositor retention.
The Conference
Fintech MeetUp 2025 was held in Las Vegas, Nevada and had just over 5,000 registered attendees including over 1000 CEOs, with diverse collection of exhibiting companies. Over 50,000 one-on-one meetings were also scheduled.
Cautions
It is critical you keep up to date with the deadlines as the MeetUp approaches to get the maximum networking from the MeetUp. If you registered in the last month before the event, you are already too late to participate in the meetups.
The event explicitly did not want any of the sponsored keynotes to be recorded or amplified. Sponsors should keep this in mind if they want any attention outside of those able to make it in-person those exact days.
Having covered Fintech Meetup in 2024, we knew what to expect from the meetups. As you can feel in the energy of the event, it was about 25% larger than last year. This year featured over 50,000 of their infamous one-on-ones – just be sure you register and get your information in early if you want to participate. Our coverage this time focused on the expo hall. In addition, we were able to conduct research for three forthcoming Whisper Reports for our clients. The playlists are unlisted but available and will eventually fill in with the video version of the report so you may wish to bookmark these playlists.
Regardless of your role or fintech need, there was likely a vendor in that specific fintech space. Developers had Gitlab providing an environment to develop solutions from ideas, through the entire software development lifecycle to production. Creating a solution that requires that is required to connect to various products in the fintech space? Merge shared their vast collection of product connectors regardless of development or integration technique. Perhaps you are specifically focused on improving your customer engagement. Interface.ai provides an agentic AI solution designed exclusively for credit unions and community banks to engage with their customers. If the interface you are most concerned with is ACH payments, Trustly can simplify ACH payments and comes with a side of risk management.
Money makes the world go around so risk management will always be a significant area of focus within Fintech. A cognitive AI solution to identify missing threats, Thetaray seeks to find troubling patterns before an organization is compromised. More concerned with compliance? Security Metrics shared their capabilities for ensuring compliance not only with FinTech but also Healthcare and other regulated industries. Focused on compliance, and fraud and perhaps but also must increase your customer conversion rate? OnFido shared their combination solution that enables organizations to quickly and correctly verify potential new clients. The risk profile is configurable depending on the specific needs of a given organization at a given time.
If identity is an area of interest in your organization, TBW Advisor’s research, Conference Whispers: Identiverse is a must read. The identity space also featured quite a few vendors in the identity space. During an exclusive interview, Intellicheck told us about their exclusive access to the data required to strongly identify drivers’ licenses from USA or Canada. If you prefer to leverage phone intelligence, Prove previously covered at Money 20/20, shared an update to their solution that now goes beyond leveraging the chip in the phones. For Fraud, prevention is always better than detection, Aries Fraud Solutions is all about prevention achieved by leveraging different numbers on the card versus the strip. In the area of risk decision and fraud detection, it is also worth to evaluate the extensive offering by Socure with an active customer base across 20 different verticals.
For various solutions, it is frequently not only about what it can do, but how extensive globally is their coverage? Provenir informed TBW Advisors that their global risk decisioning platform is available in 60 countries serving anything from Tier 1 providers all the way to SMBs. It is a multi-component platform offering a marketplace in 120 categories. On the topic of marketplaces, MoneyLion shared their extensive offering with over 800 3rd party products serving 20+ million consumers and as well as the engine behind the largest enterprise fintech customers.
The B2C dimension is always a challenging dimension for payouts. Whether it is payouts for the workforce, or refunds, Onbe’s solution is bringing clients into the digital age. If you are focused more on gift cards, Incentive.AI can create customer solutions to fit your needs. Finally, an interesting solution to help retain depositors was shared by Wysh. Wysh enables financial institutions to offer free life insurance to customers based on deposit values.
While this year’s event was held at the Sands Convention Center of the Venetian, next year’s event will be at Mandalay Bay. The event will be held March 30-April 1, 2026.
