Finweek KL 2026: Where European capital meets ASEAN scale

The premier EU–ASEAN institutional fintech summit brings 1,000+ delegates to PARKROYAL Collection Kuala Lumpur on 11 to 13 November 2026 for three days of cross-border deal-making.

Finweek and Fintech Valley Europe today announced Finweek KL 2026, the premier EU–ASEAN institutional fintech summit, to be held 11 to 13 November 2026 at PARKROYAL Collection Kuala Lumpur. Over three days, the summit brings together more than 1,000 delegates — over 500 of them C-level — spanning banks, investors, fintech founders and regulators from Europe and ASEAN to turn a once-in-a-decade regulatory opening into capital, partnerships, and cross-border growth.

The summit is engineered for outcomes, not just dialogue. European and ASEAN companies come to Finweek KL to raise and deploy capital, open banking and payment relationships, secure licensing and market-entry partners, and close cross-border deals. The programme is built around deal-making: a closed-door Capital Alignment Roundtable pairing European VCs, family offices and corporate venture arms with ASEAN scale-ups; curated, pre-matched bilateral meetings; an ASEAN–EU startup showcase; and structured soft-landing support — ASEAN market entry for European firms, and European market access for ASEAN firms.

2026 marks the moment that makes those deals possible. Europe's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework is now live; ASEAN has concluded negotiations on its Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), set to be signed at the 49th ASEAN Summit in Manila in November 2026; and the BIS-coordinated Project Nexus moves toward linking the region's instant-payment systems. For fintechs, banks, and investors, that means one thing: the rules, rails, and capital for an EU–ASEAN corridor are arriving together — and Finweek KL is the room where companies put them to work.

"Europe's rules are live. ASEAN is writing its own. That window does not stay open for long — and Kuala Lumpur is where the two sides meet," said Davy Čajko, Founder & CEO of Finweek and Fintech Valley Europe.

"We are not building another conference. We are building a corridor between European capital and ASEAN scale — and Finweek KL is where that corridor goes live. As AI takes over the analysis, the scarce asset becomes trust — and trust is still built in the room," he added.

The data backs this up. The OECD's Asia Capital Markets Report 2026, published in June 2026, finds that Asia now accounts for 56% of the world's listed companies and close to a third of global equity market capitalisation, and that the region raised approximately US$3.3t (MYR15.5t/EUR3t) in 2025 — 39% of all capital raised globally. The same report identifies Asia as the fastest-growing region for digital assets, with crypto-asset transactions up 69% year-on-year, whilst calling for stronger consumer protection, cybersecurity and regulatory cooperation — the exact agenda where European and ASEAN rule-makers meet at Finweek KL.

The timing is deliberate. With ASEAN DEFA targeted for signing at the 49th ASEAN Summit on 9 to 10 November, Finweek KL 2026 — opening on 11 November — is positioned as the first fintech summit to take the newly signed framework directly to the market, convening the capital, banks, and industry that will put it to work.

The summit unfolds across three acts:

Day 0 — Digital Diplomacy Summit (invitation-only, co-organised with IDEA): regulators and institutional leaders from Europe and ASEAN in closed-door dialogue, and the unveiling of a vision for an EU–ASEAN Investment Gateway.

Day 1 — Infrastructure Day: where the business gets built — tokenisation and real-world assets; payments, CBDCs and cross-border settlement; AI and data infrastructure; and Islamic digital finance.

Day 2 — Corridors & Capital: where founders meet investors and partners — the CEE–ASEAN bridge, talent and mobility, the startup showcase and curated investor matchmaking.

Across the programme, eight content tracks connect policy to infrastructure to capital.

The agenda lands on Malaysia's live agenda. As Bank Negara Malaysia advances its work on asset tokenisation — spanning tokenised deposits, MYR stablecoins and real-world assets — Finweek KL 2026's tokenisation and payments tracks put European and ASEAN banks, builders and regulators around the exact questions the Malaysian market is working through now.

Finweek KL 2026 is built for depth over scale — and for the people who close deals. The room is built from institutional capital (banks, VCs and family offices), fintech innovators, corporate enablers and regulators, with an expected delegate mix of roughly 60% from ASEAN, 25% from the EU and CEE region and 15% global, and around 30% representing institutional capital. Finweek brings a decade of convening Europe's fintech ecosystem — 34 international conferences — to Kuala Lumpur, partnering with Malaysian and ASEAN institutions to anchor the summit on the ground, from its Kuala Lumpur base in the Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) financial district. It is convened by Finweek and Fintech Valley Europe — a pan-European fintech network — and co-organised on Day 0 with IDEA, whose network spans close to 100 countries.

A centrepiece of the summit is the Malaysia Fintech Radar — a flagship research initiative developed through Europe–ASEAN academic collaboration, mapping the region's fintech ecosystem for the regulators, institutions, and investors deploying into it.

Confirmed speakers already include Stéphane Latouche, Chief Representative for Asia-Pacific at Banque de France; Dato' Dr Amiruddin Abdul Wahab, former CEO of CyberSecurity Malaysia; Raymond Siva, former Chief Digital Investment Officer at MDEC; Tran Hung, CEO of Web3 commerce platform Uquid; Rugile Gurrieri, Managing Director & Head of Risk at Lendable; Neha Mehta, CEO of FEMtech Partners; Nate Wentzlaff, Founder & CEO of FinanTEXT; and Prof Dr Aini Suzana Ariffin, Chair of the UNESCO STEPAN Network — a UNESCO science, technology and innovation policy network across 21 Asia-Pacific countries — and AI Governance Lead for Malaysia's National Blockchain & AI Roadmap. They are joined by fintech-association and ecosystem leaders from across the EU, CEE, and ASEAN — including Cristina Amor Maclang (IDEA), Rostyslav Dyuk (Ukrainian Association of Fintech), Pranisa Worajit (AstraLingo), Vanessa Loh (FINTLAS / MyFinT) and Dr Kevin Ng (IFT Academy) — several of whom join the summit's Day 0 ASEAN–EU leaders' panel. Additional senior figures — from ASEAN governments and digital agencies, central and development banks, and the region's fintech associations — are being confirmed, and the full programme will be announced progressively through Q3 2026 at finweek.my/speakers.

The summit's official media partners include four of Asia's leading business titles — Singapore Business Review, Asian Banking & Finance, Asian Business Review, and Hong Kong Business — carrying Finweek KL 2026 across the region's institutional and financial audiences.

Partnership, speaking and Early Bird delegate pre-registrations are open now at www.finweek.my.

For more information contact Peter Bielcik, peter.bielcik@beead.sk