Congratulations to the winners of FinovateSpring 2026's Best of Show awards!
From solutions that help banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions deliver new, innovative products and services to their customers and members to novel uses of enabling technologies like AI and stablecoins, the companies that won Best of Show at this year's FinovateSpring reflect many of the most important trends in fintech and financial services today.
This week marks the second time that...
With FinovateSpring 2026 right around the corner—May 5-7—we wanted to take a moment here at Finovate Global to highlight the international companies that will be demoing their latest fintech innovations live on stage next week.
While both our European conference FinovateEurope and our flagship event FinovateFall tend to showcase the lion's share of our international alums, we are thrilled to host these eight fintech innovators from Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Singapore, and...
- Eleos Life, an insurtech based in the UK that expanded to the US last year, has secured a $3 million media-for-equity investment.
- The investment came courtesy of Mercurius Media Capital (MMC), a US-based, media-for-equity venture fund, and will help accelerate brand awareness for Eleos in the United States via national television, digital, and cinema advertising.
- Eleos Life was founded in 2023. The company made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2024 in London. Kiruba Shankar...
- Versana has raised $43 million, bringing its total raised to $125 million, with backing from major banks and private credit players.
- The company is building a shared, standardized data layer for the $9 trillion syndicated loan and private credit markets that replaces manual, inconsistent workflows with a single source of truth.
- The new round brings on strategic investors like Fitch Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Motive Partners, and Apollo.
- Agentic banking innovator nCino has teamed up with Austrian banking cooperative Raiffeisenbankengruppe Oesterreich.
- The financial institution will use nCino as its unified lending platform, supporting the complete financing lifecycle from initial application to final disbursement.
- Founded in 2012 and headquartered in North Carolina, nCino made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2017 in London. Sean Desmond is President and CEO.
