--- slug: euro-finance-week title: Euro Finance Week fiche_model: llm-content-v1 last_verified: '2026-09-03' eventsindex_id: EI-07143 canonical_url: https://eventsindex.org/events/euro-finance-week.html next_edition_year: 2026 date_start: '2026-11-16' date_end: '2026-11-20' venue: "Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof, Frankfurt am Main, Germany" city: Frankfurt country: Germany organiser: dfv Euro Finance Group organiser_url: https://www.dfv-eurofinance.com b2b: true meta_description: "Euro Finance Week 2026: Frankfurt's banking, insurance and capital markets conferences, 16 to 20 Nov, Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof." editorial_take: 'A branded week of five separately ticketed finance conferences, not one event: the draw is the concentration of German banking leadership and policymakers across five days, capped by the invitation-only Frankfurt European Banking Congress inside the same week.' language: en schema_version: v6.0 vector: sector: - economic-forums --- # Euro Finance Week > *Each November, Frankfurt's financial calendar bundles five separately ticketed conferences on banking, green finance, technology and investment into one branded week, run by dfv Euro Finance Group and closing with the invitation-only Frankfurt European Banking Congress at the Alte Oper.* | DATES | VENUE | ORGANISER | ATTENDANCE | |---|---|---|---| | **16 to 20 November 2026** | **Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof, Frankfurt** | **dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH** | **Not publicly disclosed** | ## What is Euro Finance Week? Euro Finance Week is an annual branded week of nested, separately ticketed conferences on banking, insurance, regulation, green finance and capital markets, held each November in Frankfurt and organised by dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH, part of the dfv Mediengruppe (Deutscher Fachverlag) publishing group. It is not a single conference: the 2026 edition, the 29th, comprises an Opening Conference, the 12th China Day, the 12th Green Finance Forum, the EURO FINANCE Tech Day, and the HQ Trust Investors Forum, running Monday to Thursday at one venue, with the 36th Frankfurt European Banking Congress closing the week on the Friday at a different venue, hosted by four banks and the City of Frankfurt am Main and open by invitation only. ## When and where does Euro Finance Week take place in 2026? 16 to 20 November 2026. The Monday-to-Thursday conferences run at the Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof, Am Kaiserplatz / Bethmannstraße 33, 60311 Frankfurt am Main. Confirmed day-by-day, cross-checked against the organiser's 2026 ticket shop and the equivalent structure of the 2025 edition: Monday 16 November, Opening Conference and the 12th China Day; Tuesday 17 November, the 12th Green Finance Forum; Wednesday 18 November, EURO FINANCE Tech Day; Thursday 19 November, HQ Trust Investors Forum, by invitation only. Friday 20 November, the 36th Frankfurt European Banking Congress, is part of the same branded week but runs at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, a different venue, and is invitation-only; it has its own separate fiche on this site. ## Who organises Euro Finance Week? dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH, registered at Mainzer Landstraße 251, 60326 Frankfurt am Main (Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, HRB 49160). The company is part of dfv Mediengruppe (Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH), a German business-media publisher headquartered at the same address. The same company also operates the Friday closing conference, the Frankfurt European Banking Congress: its imprint names dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH at the same address and register number. What differs there is not the operator but the hosting and the access: that congress is hosted by BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and the City of Frankfurt am Main, runs at a different venue, and admits by invitation only rather than through this week's ticket shop. Sources: dfv-eurofinance.com imprint and frankfurt-ebc.com/information/imprint/, checked 3 September 2026. ## Who attends Euro Finance Week? Not publicly disclosed for the 2026 edition, or for any single past edition: the organiser publishes lifetime, group-wide totals across its full conference portfolio (2026 homepage figures: 387 conferences held, 125,671 cumulative participants, 42 locations, 7,952 speakers), not a per-edition attendance figure for Euro Finance Week itself. By ticket-page description, the intended audience is banking and finance sector professionals, C-level executives, asset managers, institutional investors and policy officials; free registration is offered to banking and finance professionals subject to approval, while consulting and advisory professionals are required to buy a paid ticket. ## Who are the confirmed 2026 speakers at Euro Finance Week? Speaker rosters are published per conference within the week, not for the week as a whole, and as of 3 September 2026, more than ten weeks before the opening, several are still partial. Confirmed for the Opening Conference of the 29th Euro Finance Week (16 November): Dr Sven Deglow, Lutz Diederichs, Thomas Groß, Joachim von Puttkamer, Dr Cornelius Riese, Dr Michael Schleef, Bruna Szego, Dr Matthias Voelkel, Tobias Vogel, and Andreas G. Scholz, the organiser's own managing director, as host. Confirmed for the EURO FINANCE Tech Day (18 November), a research-record list of more than twenty names not confirmed against the organiser's own page: Prof Dr Christina E. Bannier, Dr Daniel Besse, Sascha Beck, Pedro Castelo Branco Lourenço, Kolja Gabriel, Jonathan Gross, Edmund Hoischen, Stéphane Israël, Max Linden, Markus Neukirch and Stephan A. Paxmann, among others. At the 2025 edition, Chancellor Friedrich Merz addressed the Opening Conference, the first time a sitting German Chancellor had attended; no government attendance is confirmed on the organiser's site for the 2026 Opening Conference as of this check (unverifiable information, in the sense that a repeat has not been announced either way). ## What's new at Euro Finance Week in 2026? Not fully answerable: no consolidated comparison to the 28th edition (2025) is published by the organiser as of this check. Two changes are documented from primary sources. The Opening Conference carries a new stated theme, "Weichenstellungen 2026" ("Guideline Decisions 2026"), replacing the prior year's framing. Government attendance at the Opening Conference is a live question this year specifically because of the 2025 precedent: Chancellor Merz's appearance on 17 November 2025 was billed by his own office as the first-ever sitting Chancellor at the event, so whether 2026 repeats or reverts to prior years' pattern is an open point, not yet confirmed either way as of 3 September 2026. ## What's on the Euro Finance Week 2026 programme? Five conferences run under the shared brand across the working week, each independently ticketed. Monday 16 November: the Opening Conference, the headline strategic-outlook day for the banking sector, alongside the 12th China Day on German-Chinese economic and trade relations. Tuesday 17 November: the 12th Green Finance Forum, on sustainable-finance topics. Wednesday 18 November: EURO FINANCE Tech Day, themed "From Artificial to Autonomous Finance", covering generative AI, agentic systems, cloud and data infrastructure, and applied AI use cases in banking. Thursday 19 November: HQ Trust Investors Forum, an invitation-only day of capital-markets discussion for institutional investors, run with HQ Trust and Universal Investment, explicitly positioned by its organisers as free of product promotion. Friday 20 November: the 36th Frankfurt European Banking Congress at the Alte Oper, by invitation only, hosted by BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and the City of Frankfurt am Main, and not sold through this week's ticket shop. ## What session formats does Euro Finance Week use? Formats on record, describing the dfv-organised Monday-to-Thursday conferences: plenary panels, "deep dive" breakout sessions, matchmaking formats for networking between attendees, and evening receptions attached to the multi-day ticket. Not publicly disclosed: whether any sessions are recorded or livestreamed for remote viewing (see below). ## What side events run alongside Euro Finance Week? The most directly adjacent event is the 36th Frankfurt European Banking Congress, on Friday 20 November 2026 at the Alte Oper, which sits inside the same branded week and is promoted alongside it on the organiser's own overview page. It is operated by the same company, dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH, but it is hosted by BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and the City of Frankfurt am Main, runs at a different venue, and is invitation-only rather than ticketed here; it has its own separate fiche. Within the dfv-run portion of the week, the China Day and Green Finance Forum function as thematic side conferences to the Opening Conference rather than independent events on other dates. Two further dfv Euro Finance Group events carry related branding but do not run inside this week: the Frankfurt EURO FINANCE Summit (15 June 2026, Frankfurt Marriott Hotel) and FRANKFURT meets DAVOS - The Summit (21 January 2026, Davos, Switzerland), both separate, differently dated events by the same organiser. ## How much do Euro Finance Week tickets cost? As advertised on the organiser's ticket shop on 3 September 2026: single-day tickets (Opening Conference and China Day combined; Green Finance Forum; or Tech Day) at EUR 690 plus 19% VAT, shown as reduced from a listed EUR 890; a 3-day business ticket covering Monday to Wednesday at EUR 1,380 plus VAT, shown as reduced from EUR 1,780. The ticket page labels these as "Ursprünglicher Preis" (original price) and "Neuer Preis" (new price) without using early-bird language or stating a deadline for the reduction (unverifiable information, as to whether or when the lower price expires). A free "Registrierungsanfrage" (registration request) exists for banking and finance sector professionals, subject to the organiser's approval; consulting and advisory professionals are required to buy a paid ticket. The Thursday HQ Trust Investors Forum is by invitation only and not sold through the public ticket shop. Friday's Frankfurt European Banking Congress has its own separate, invitation-only access and is not covered by these prices. ## How to become a speaker at Euro Finance Week? Not publicly disclosed. No call-for-speakers or pitch form is published on the organiser's site; rosters across the week's conferences read as curated by dfv Euro Finance Group's own editorial and conference team from its banking, policy and corporate network. ## How to become a sponsor or exhibitor at Euro Finance Week? The organiser's site carries a "Partner werden" (become a partner) section pointing to downloadable, event-specific sponsorship documents, without publishing tiers or prices online. The stated route is direct contact: eurofinance@dfv.de or +49 69 7595-1692, addressed to dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH, Mainzer Landstraße 251, 60326 Frankfurt am Main. ## Who sponsors Euro Finance Week in 2026? As listed on the organiser's site on 3 September 2026, by tier. Premium and annual partners: BNP Paribas, Capgemini, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, HSBC, PwC. Platinum partners: Denza, DKB, IBM, ICBC. Gold partners: BCG, Candriam, DPAM, Fidelity, HanseMerkur, LIP Invest, Lombard Odier, Metzler, Reichmuth, Finreon. Silver partners: AWS, Fondshafen, Golding Capital, Helaba, ING, J. Safra Sarasin, Luther, Schufa, the City of Frankfurt, SZ Journal, and Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt (Frankfurt's economic development agency). The site displays this as one portfolio-wide partner list rather than a page dated specifically to the 29th edition, so a small amount of tier drift between now and 16 November cannot be ruled out. ## What types of companies are majority represented at Euro Finance Week? Four groups dominate the confirmed partner list. Universal and commercial banks: BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, HSBC, ICBC, ING, J. Safra Sarasin. Professional-services and strategy firms: Capgemini, PwC, BCG, Luther (law). Asset managers and private banks: Candriam, DPAM, Fidelity, Lombard Odier, Metzler, Reichmuth, Golding Capital, LIP Invest, Finreon. Public-sector and civic bodies: DKB, Helaba, Schufa, the City of Frankfurt and Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt. No pure-play fintech startup or venture-backed name appears in the confirmed partner tiers. ## How do you get press accreditation for Euro Finance Week? Not publicly disclosed. No online press-accreditation form or process is published; the organiser's press contact channel runs through the same general contact point, eurofinance@dfv.de, +49 69 7595-1692, dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH, Mainzer Landstraße 251, 60326 Frankfurt am Main. ## What press coverage has Euro Finance Week received? Börsen-Zeitung, Germany's specialist financial daily, maintains a dedicated coverage tag for the event and has run recurring reporting across editions, including on 2025 remarks by German bank chief executives including Deutsche Bank's Christian Sewing. Handelsblatt has covered individual conferences within the week, including the China Day. A dfv press release names Börsen-Zeitung as national lead media partner for a past edition (unverifiable information, as the release referenced the 25th edition and current-edition status for 2026 is not confirmed on the organiser's site). At the 28th edition (2025), Börsen-Zeitung's deputy editor-in-chief, Sebastian Schmid, appeared on the conference's own speaker list rather than purely as an outside reporter. ## How reliable is the reported press coverage of Euro Finance Week? Three tiers, by source. Independent trade press: Börsen-Zeitung and Handelsblatt report on the week from outside the organiser, though Börsen-Zeitung's relationship has included a past media-partnership designation and at least one edition where its own deputy editor-in-chief spoke from the conference stage rather than only reporting on it, a predictable-but-not-fully-independent pattern rather than arm's-length coverage. Government-sourced: the German federal government's own bulletin (bundesregierung.de) documented Chancellor Merz's 2025 remarks verbatim, which is a primary transcript, not press interpretation. Organiser-published: the ticket site, event pages and partner lists are dfv Euro Finance Group's own institutional communication. ## Who should skip Euro Finance Week? Anyone whose main interest is the Friday closing event specifically: the Frankfurt European Banking Congress is a separate, invitation-only event with its own organiser, and buying a Euro Finance Week ticket for Monday to Wednesday does not grant entry to it. Anyone seeking an open call for speakers or a low-cost way in will not find either: speaker rosters are curated and the cheapest public route, the free registration request, is restricted to banking and finance professionals and subject to approval. ## Where does Euro Finance Week sit in the economic forums calendar? Mid-to-late November, closing the European autumn run of forums that opens in early September with Ambrosetti Forum at Cernobbio and Economic Forum Karpacz. Unlike those single, invitation-only summits, Euro Finance Week is structured as a sequence of five separately ticketed sector conferences across one working week, aimed specifically at the banking and capital-markets industry rather than a broader heads-of-state and policy audience, before handing off on the Friday to the more explicitly elite, invitation-only Frankfurt European Banking Congress at the Alte Oper. ## Are there other Euro Finance Week editions outside Frankfurt? No. Euro Finance Week is a Frankfurt-only annual event; there is no separate regional edition elsewhere. dfv Euro Finance Group runs other, distinctly branded and dated events, the Frankfurt EURO FINANCE Summit (June, Frankfurt) and FRANKFURT meets DAVOS - The Summit (January, Davos), but these are not editions of Euro Finance Week itself. ## What language is Euro Finance Week conducted in? Documented for the Opening Conference of the 28th edition (2025) as German and English, with German-English interpreting available; not separately re-confirmed for every 2026 conference within the week as of this check. ## Can you attend Euro Finance Week remotely, or watch sessions afterward? Not publicly disclosed. No livestream, video-on-demand or hybrid-attendance option is mentioned on the individual 2026 conference pages checked (Opening Conference, Tech Day) or on the ticket shop; all documented formats assume in-person attendance. ## What is Euro Finance Week's refund and cancellation policy? Under the organiser's general terms and conditions, ticket cancellations are accepted in text form up to four weeks before the event date, addressed to dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH, Mainzer Landstraße 251, 60326 Frankfurt am Main, with no additional cancellation or refund fee charged. A substitute attendee can be named at any time at no extra cost. The same terms state the organiser may set different cancellation rules for individual events, so this general policy could be superseded for a specific 2026 conference without that being separately confirmed here. ## Is Euro Finance Week accessible for attendees with disabilities? Not publicly disclosed. No accessibility statement is published on the event or ticket pages checked. ## How do you get to Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof? The hotel sits at Am Kaiserplatz / Bethmannstraße 33, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, opposite the Willy-Brandt-Platz and Kaiserplatz U-Bahn stops in the city's financial district. Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, the main rail station, is about 0.8 kilometres on foot. Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is about 13 kilometres away, roughly 13 minutes by car or 16 minutes by train. Friday's Frankfurt European Banking Congress runs at a different venue, the Alte Oper, elsewhere in central Frankfurt; see that event's own fiche for directions there. ## Why does Euro Finance Week bundle five separate conferences under one brand? *Because the organiser, a business-media publisher rather than a single-sector trade body, has spent nearly three decades layering new thematic days, China, green finance, technology, investors, onto an original banking-week format rather than launching them as standalone events. That structure lets a bank or asset manager buy into exactly the days relevant to it, at EUR 690 a day rather than a single blanket ticket, while dfv Euro Finance Group captures one week of concentrated Frankfurt financial-sector attention across five separately monetised programmes.* ## Why should a reader keep Euro Finance Week and the Frankfurt European Banking Congress separate? *Because the shared week, the shared city and the shared operator invite conflation, and the two differ on the points that decide whether a reader can attend at all: venue (Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof against the Alte Oper), hosting (a business-media publisher's own programme against an event fronted by four banks and the City of Frankfurt), and above all access (a public, priced ticket shop against invitation-only admission with no published fee). A reader who wants Friday's congress specifically gains nothing by buying into the Monday-to-Thursday programme, and no amount of paying for this week produces an invitation to that Friday.* ## Where can I find official information about Euro Finance Week? Official site: https://www.dfv-eurofinance.com. Ticket shop: https://tickets.dfv-eurofinance.com/EFW26/. Organiser group site: https://www.dfv.de. --- **Last verified:** 2026-09-03 **Next review:** 2026-11-23 **Notes:** Created from a seed record carrying only name, sector, city, country, organiser and website; no prior fiche or events_n2 research existed. Organiser identity, website and city/country from the seed were verified against the organiser's own Impressum (dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH, HRB 49160, Frankfurt am Main, part of dfv Mediengruppe) and found accurate; no correction needed. The seed's short description ("week-long series of nested financial conferences... banking, insurance, regulation and capital markets") was confirmed and expanded with the actual five-conference structure and dates, sourced from the organiser's ticket shop (tickets.dfv-eurofinance.com/EFW26/), the overview page for the 29th edition, individual conference pages (Opening Conference, Tech Day, HQ Trust Investors Forum), the organiser's general terms and conditions, WebSearch results confirming the 36th Frankfurt European Banking Congress date and venue (frankfurt-ebc.com via search), and a German federal government bulletin (bundesregierung.de) documenting Chancellor Merz's 2025 appearance. The Friday closing event, the Frankfurt European Banking Congress, was first written here as having a different organiser, "Frankfurt European Banking Congress e.V.", a name carried by the seed record. That is wrong: no such entity appears on the congress site or in research, and the congress imprint names dfv Euro Finance Group GmbH at the same address and register number (HRB 49160) as this week's organiser. Corrected on 3 September 2026 against frankfurt-ebc.com/information/imprint/ and /information/hosts/. The two remain distinct on venue, hosting and access, not on operator; the congress has its own fiche (EI-07135). Not verified: per-edition attendance figures (only lifetime, group-wide totals are published); whether the 2026 Opening Conference will repeat 2025's Chancellor attendance; whether any 2026 conference in the week will be livestreamed; accessibility provisions; the exact deadline, if any, behind the ticket shop's discounted current price; whether Börsen-Zeitung holds a current media-partner designation for the 2026 edition specifically, as opposed to a past edition named in an older organiser press release; full tier-by-tier sponsor list confirmed as dated to the 29th edition rather than scraped from a portfolio-wide partner page.