The inaugural edition of 3f took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 25-27 August 2025.
In addition to finance scholars from many leading universities around the world, it featured CEOs/founders/board members of such organizations as ACTUS, Axiology, Cortical, the Digital Finance Unit of the European Banking Authority, Finternet, the Interledger Foundation, Loando, Magnetiq Bank, Techstars, TransferGo and Vontobel. The program of that event is available on https://www.conftool.net/fufifest2025/sessions.php. Videos of keynotes, panels and presentations can be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/@3f.events (organized by room +time, as in the program; searchable by speaker and keyword).
Closing panel of 3f2025, with Allard Luchsinger (Managing Director, Techstars), Albert Menkveld (Professor, VU Amsterdam), Ruta Merkeviciute (Head, Digital Finance Unit of the European Banking Authority) and Sheila Mitham (CEO, Inbound FinTech). Moderated by Aadil Bundeally (BABL AI, Valutico & AI Risk) and David Stolin (Chair, 3f).
“Future of money” panel, with Andrei Kirilenko (Professor, University of Cambridge) and Siddharth Shetty (CEO, Finternet). Moderated by Chris Crespo (Nordic Fintech Magazine).
“Behavioral science and ethical banking” panel, with Ben Goldin (CEO, Plumery), Nagpurnanand Prabhala (Professor, Johns Hopkins University), Jakub Wieclaw (Chairman, Magnetiq Bank), and Bernard Yeung (Professor, National University of Singapore). Moderated by Andra Sonea (University of Warwick).
Keynote: “Lessons from fintech-academic collaborations”, Antonio Gargano (Associate Professor, University of Houston)