From November 18 to 20, 2026, the Singapore FinTech Festival, organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the GFTN network, brings together central bankers, regulators and digital asset players at the Singapore EXPO. Piero Cipollone, who pilots the digital euro at the European Central Bank, and the chairman of the supervisory board of Qivalis, the euro stablecoin of European banks, are among the speakers. Tremplin.io details what the program has in store for crypto, what interests a European reader and what the pass costs.
In brief
- November 18 to 20, 2026, Singapore EXPO, halls 1 to 6; invitational events on November 16 and 17.
- More than 70,000 participants from 142 countries and territories during the 2025 edition, according to the organizers.
- Theme 2026: “overhaul of the financial system”; Tokenization and stablecoins are among the subtopics.
- Delegate Pass at SGD 1,500 since the end of the preferential rate on September 30; 1,200 SGD with the code, according to our calculations.
- European side: ECB, Bundesbank, Bank of Spain, National Bank of Denmark and Dutch central bank.
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What is the Singapore FinTech Festival?
It is one of the largest global digital finance meetings, organized by the central bank of Singapore itself. The 2025 edition, the tenth, brought together more than 70,000 participants from 142 countries and territories and more than 900 speakers, according to the results published by the organizers. The MAS had announced trials of tokenized vouchers settled in central bank currency, as we reported in our article on Singapore tokenized vouchers.
The 2026 edition is organized by MAS and the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), with the Singapore Banking Association, according to their press release of August 26, 2026. The festival resembles a car show where we would also meet the authors of the highway code: companies and regulators exhibit side by side. Read as an operation, it serves to position Singapore at the crossroads of digital finance; for the visitor, it costs a pass and a trip, but gives access to central bankers rarely gathered in the same place.
What place for crypto on the program?
The 2026 theme, “ The Coming Rewiring of the Financial System » (the upcoming overhaul of the financial system), is broken down into five sub-themes. Several directly affect digital assets, depending on the official themes page : the “tokenization chain”, corporate treasurers who choose their settlement asset between “ deposits in dollars, local currencies or stablecoins ”, and the rules on digital assets which are starting to apply in the first markets.
There tokenization consists of representing an asset, such as a bond or a share of funds, in the form of a token on a blockchain. To understand this mechanism, read our explanation of tokenization. The boss of the GFTN already summarized the issue during the previous edition:
The next decade will be about harnessing AI responsibly, scaling tokenization securely, and preparing for a quantum future.
Sopnendu Mohanty, Managing Director of GFTN Group, press release of November 9, 2025 (Tremplin.io translation)
| Speaker | Function | Link to crypto |
|---|---|---|
| Piero Cipollone | Member of the Executive Board of the ECB | Chairs the Eurosystem working group on the digital euro |
| Alexandra Hachmeister | Director General Digital Euro, Bundesbank | Preparing for the digital euro |
| Sir Howard Davies | Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Qivalis | Euro stablecoin from 37 European banks |
| Steven Maijoor | Member of the management board, responsible for supervision, DNB (Dutch central bank) | The DNB examines the application for approval from Qivalis |
| Angela Ang | Director Asia Pacific, BitGo | Digital Asset Custody |
| Aaron Seabrook | Director of Operations, Marketnode | Tokenized market infrastructure |
The detailed program of sessions is published over the weeks. The crypto sessions of previous editions, with Circle or Coinbase, are not yet confirmed for 2026 as of September 30.
What does that change for a European reader?
The festival offers a showcase for the European debate on digital currency. On the public side, the ECB is preparing the digital euro, a central bank currency in digital form; on the private side, 37 European banks, including BNP Paribas, BPCE and Crédit Mutuel, are preparing a euro stablecoin with Qivalis, awaiting approval from the DNB, according to the Qivalis website. The chairman of the Qivalis supervisory board and a leader of the authority examining his file will be on the same poster.
The ECB does not see the two projects as incompatible. On April 1, 2026, Piero Cipollone estimated that “ private settlement assets will play a role “, in particular ” Euro-denominated stablecoins issued in Europe “, according to the text of his speech (Tremplin.io translation). For a saver, the difference remains clear: the digital euro would be issued by the ECB, a stablecoin is issued by a private company, whose solidity depends on its reserves.
How much does the pass cost?
Fares are displayed in Singapore Dollars (SGD). The Delegate Pass discount price of SGD 1,000 ended on September 30, as does a hotel reservation which goes up in price as the date approaches.
| Pass | Access | Price | With the code −20% (Tremplin.io calculation) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delegate | Stages, SFF MeetUp meetings, exhibition, broadcast, After Hours evening | SGD1,500 | SGD1,200 |
| Startup (company less than 5 years old) | Delegate access for young companies | SGD 650 | SGD520 |
| MeetUp Pass | Business meeting | SGD 380 | 304 SGD |
| Livestream | Online only | SGD250 | SGD200 |
| Executive | Delegate, plus Insights2040 forum, executive lounge and dinner on November 17 | SGD 6,000 | SGD4,800 |
Group rates exist from three passes, and free passes are reserved for regulators, academics, accredited press and professional visitors to the exhibition. Passes are neither refundable nor transferable, depending on the festival FAQ.
The festival opens on Wednesday, November 18 at the Singapore EXPO. Two things will have to be monitored: what the ECB will say about the digital euro, the legislative framework of which was still in the hands of European legislators in the spring, and possible announcements from the MAS on stablecoins and tokenization, as in 2025 with its tokenized bonds. To position Singapore compared to its neighbors, re-read our analysis of the stablecoin race in Asia.
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