Research-led events and market intelligence for financial-services leaders.
Shape Finance brings senior financial-services practitioners together around the technology, operational and implementation questions shaping their roles. Our work combines ongoing market research, focused executive events and original intelligence.
Our aim is simple: better conversations, with the right people, around the questions that actually matter in practice.
Research, intelligence and focused executive events.
Shape Finance combines ongoing market research with carefully curated events and original intelligence, creating a continuous view of the priorities and implementation challenges facing financial-services leaders.
Listening to the market
We speak with practitioners across financial services to understand the priorities, constraints and questions shaping technology and operational change.
Convening the right people
Those conversations inform focused, invitation-led forums designed around relevant peer groups, practical discussion and carefully controlled partner participation.
Carrying insight forward
Themes emerging from research and events feed into future programmes, original analysis and the questions we continue exploring with the market.
From market conversations to better-informed events.
Our programmes are built around recurring questions we hear from practitioners, rather than around a fixed content calendar.
Practitioner conversations
We speak with people working directly across financial services to understand current priorities, constraints and areas of uncertainty.
Shared questions
We look for themes that recur across different firms and roles, separating broader patterns from isolated observations.
Focused programmes
Those questions shape agendas, research themes and discussion formats designed around practical relevance rather than broad coverage.
Relevant peer groups
We bring together carefully selected practitioners and a proportionate number of relevant technology partners around those questions.
Ongoing intelligence
What we learn feeds into future research, events and original Shape Finance analysis.
Focused by design.
Shape Finance events are intentionally smaller, more targeted and more practitioner-led than broad industry conferences.
Research-led agendas
Our programmes are shaped through ongoing conversations with practitioners, helping us focus on the questions teams are actively working through.
Carefully selected audiences
We build around clearly defined senior practitioner communities rather than broad, high-volume attendance.
Practical discussion
Sessions are designed to surface implementation experience, trade-offs and areas of disagreement rather than generic thought leadership.
Relevant technology participation
Technology partners are included selectively, with participation shaped around genuine relevance to the audience and programme.
Built around relevant people and real participation.
Shape Finance events bring together senior practitioners from banks, lenders and other financial institutions, alongside a carefully controlled group of relevant technology partners.
SELECTED ORGANISATIONS REPRESENTED
Designed for depth, not scale
Events are intentionally kept more intimate so participants can spend more time in relevant conversations and less time navigating a crowded floor.
Built around operating experience
The programme is shaped by what practitioners are working through in practice, with discussion focused on real implementation questions and trade-offs.
Commercial participation stays controlled
Technology partners are selected for relevance to the audience and programme, helping preserve the practitioner-led environment.
Founder-led and close to the market.
Shape Finance is a small, founder-led business. That keeps the people developing the events, conducting the research and speaking with participants close to the conversations taking place across the market.
Oscar Cunningham
Co-Founder & Director of Events
Oscar leads Shape Finance’s event development, research and commercial strategy, working directly with financial-services practitioners and technology companies across the portfolio.
Where to go next
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