Research-led events and market intelligence for financial services leaders
Shape Finance brings senior financial-services practitioners together through focused, invitation-only forums. Ongoing research with practitioners shapes our event agendas and informs original intelligence across compliance and financial crime, lending and credit, and technology implementation.
Focused forums for senior financial-services leaders
Shape Finance produces invitation-only events built around specific operational and technology priorities in financial services. Each forum combines focused content, carefully selected audiences and relevant technology participation.
FinTech Compliance Leaders (formerly RegTech Exchange London)
For senior compliance and financial crime leaders
4 March 2027 · London
FinTech Compliance Leaders (formerly RegTech Exchange London) brings together senior practitioners from banks and financial institutions to examine how technology is being implemented across compliance and financial crime.
LendTech Summit
For senior leaders across lending, credit, product and technology
17 November 2026 · London
LendTech Summit brings together decision-makers from banks and lenders to explore the technology, operating models and implementation priorities shaping modern lending.
What financial-services leaders are seeing, testing and prioritising
Our intelligence draws on ongoing conversations with senior practitioners, event research and the questions emerging across our programmes. We identify recurring themes, areas of disagreement and practical implementation challenges, then turn them into focused analysis for the wider market.
As lenders push for faster decisions, the documents underpinning them are becoming easier to fake and harder to check by eye — raising questions about where verification should sit in an automated underwriting process.
3 November 2026
For lenders, the change is not about replacing the underwriter — it is about changing how underwriters spend their time, and which decisions still need their input.
27 October 2026
For lenders looking to scale automation, the challenge is often less about the availability of AI tools and more about the data, systems and processes needed to make them work.
20 October 2026
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How Shape Finance works
We build our events and intelligence around the questions practitioners are already working through. Research, event development and ongoing market conversations feed into the same process.
Listen
We speak with senior practitioners about current priorities, implementation challenges and emerging questions.
Identify
We look for recurring themes, points of disagreement and areas where more practical discussion is needed.
Build
We shape focused agendas and research around the questions that matter most to the audience.
Convene
We bring together relevant practitioners and technology partners in carefully selected, senior forums.
Carry forward
What we learn informs future research, intelligence, event development and market conversations.
Built around the right people and the right conversations
Our events are designed around focused senior audiences rather than scale for its own sake. Across FinTech Compliance Leaders (formerly RegTech Exchange London) and LendTech Summit, Shape Finance has brought together practitioners from banks, lenders and financial institutions alongside a limited number of relevant technology partners.
Senior practitioner speakers
Across Shape Finance events in 2026 to date
Senior compliance & financial crime leaders
FinTech Compliance Leaders, March 2026
Senior lending & credit leaders
LendTech Summit, May 2026
“It felt less like a conference and more like a peer consultation – which is exactly what practitioners need.”
Nafisa Feeney
General Manager & Head of Legal UK, Paynt
Track FinTech funding activity
Explore recent funding rounds across FinTech and financial-services technology, with searchable data to help track investment activity across the market.
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Selected developments across financial-services technology
A curated selection of relevant market updates, company announcements and industry developments across the areas Shape Finance follows.
Latest financial-services technology development
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For financial-services leaders
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For technology partners
For technology companies and other relevant providers serving financial institutions. Understand where your proposition fits, how our audiences are selected and how relevant participation can work across the Shape Finance portfolio.
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