PARIS, France — September 9, 2026 — Fintech Meetup and Signal Week, formerly known as Paris Blockchain Week, have joined forces to create new ways for the people shaping fintech and digital assets to connect, collaborate and do business across the United States and Europe. The partnership will combine Fintech Meetup's meetings-led financial services marketplace with Signal Week's global digital assets community, with joint activations launching in Las Vegas and Paris in 2027.

Convergence of Traditional Finance and Digital Assets

Traditional finance and digital assets are converging at pace. Stablecoins, tokenization and blockchain infrastructure are moving from experimentation toward real-world financial services, while digital asset companies increasingly need access to the institutions and partners that can carry those technologies into the mainstream. Together, Fintech Meetup and Signal Week aim to create the meeting place for that convergence.

The pairing unites two highly complementary strengths. Signal Week contributes deep digital assets expertise along with a global network of brands, builders, investors and policymakers. Fintech Meetup brings the wider financial services ecosystem — particularly banks and other fintech buyers — and its technology-enabled Meetings Program, designed to turn shared interests into valuable one-to-one connections and commercial relationships.

The collaboration also marks the first major milestone since Signal Week joined Hyve Group in 2026, bringing both brands under one roof. Connecting the two communities was one of the driving rationales behind the acquisition, and the partnership puts that strategy into action. It begins at Fintech Meetup in Las Vegas in February 2027 before continuing in Paris later that year.

Las Vegas: Digital Assets Summit

The partnership will come to life at Fintech Meetup 2027, taking place February 22–24 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, where the two organizations will jointly launch the Digital Assets Summit, powered by Signal Week, under the banner “The Bridge Between TradFi and Digital Assets.” An expanded digital assets experience embedded within Fintech Meetup, the summit places digital assets at the heart of the event.

The Las Vegas program will spotlight what is actually being built, deployed and adopted across financial services, with an emphasis on real infrastructure, real deployments and real partnerships. It will showcase the companies and financial institutions putting the technology into production — from stablecoins and tokenization to blockchain infrastructure and on-chain markets — and use Fintech Meetup's Meetings Program to connect them with the institutions, customers and partners that can accelerate adoption.

Signal Week will contribute specialist expertise and an established global digital assets community that has welcomed leaders from institutions including BlackRock, Société Générale, Circle and Ripple at past editions. Fintech Meetup will bring its broader fintech ecosystem, financial institution audience and meetings-driven model, with past attendees including Citi, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and Visa. The stated ambition is to become the most important meeting place for the people building, buying and adopting the next generation of financial infrastructure.

Louisa Hunter, President of Fintech Meetup, said: “Traditional finance and digital assets are no longer separate conversations. Banks are exploring stablecoins, tokenisation and blockchain infrastructure, while the companies building that technology need access to the institutions that can take it into the mainstream. Bringing these communities together is timely and incredibly exciting. Signal brings deep expertise, credibility and relationships across digital assets; Fintech Meetup brings the wider financial services ecosystem and a meetings model designed to turn interest into action. Together, we will build the most important meeting place for the people building, buying and adopting the next generation of financial infrastructure.”

Charlie Méraud, Co-Founder of Signal Week, said: “Wall Street is going on-chain, and so is every major financial hub. Not just financial instruments, but payment rails and programmable currencies. After years of the two industries working in silos, building that bridge has been Signal Week's goal from the start. Partnering with Fintech Meetup puts our community in front of 650+ qualified hosted leaders through a world-class double opt-in meetings program, and that's the strongest step forward we could have taken.”

A Larger European Marketplace in Paris

The next major chapter arrives in Paris in 2027, when Fintech Meetup Europe and Signal Week combine forces at Signal Week. The aim is a substantially broader meeting point for financial services, spanning banking, fintech, payments, digital assets and emerging financial infrastructure. For the Fintech Meetup community, that means deeper access to one of the fastest-moving areas of financial services; for Signal Week's community, it means stronger connections into financial institutions and the wider fintech ecosystem, underpinned by Fintech Meetup's one-to-one Meetings Program.

Further details about the collaboration will be announced at the launch of Fintech Meetup Europe, taking place October 6–8 in Lisbon.

About Fintech Meetup

Fintech Meetup brings together financial institutions, fintechs, startups, investors, retailers, merchants and technology providers to make the connections that move their businesses forward. At the center of the experience is its technology-enabled Meetings Program, which creates curated, double opt-in, one-to-one meetings based on what attendees want to achieve. Alongside the meetings, expert-led content and community experiences give attendees additional ways to discover new ideas, find partners and build relationships across the fintech ecosystem. More information is available at fintechmeetup.com.

About Signal Week

Signal Week, formerly Paris Blockchain Week, is Europe's institutional summit for digital assets, bringing together the leaders shaping digital assets and on-chain infrastructure. Its global community spans financial institutions, digital asset companies, investors, founders, policymakers and technology leaders, with more than 10,000 attendees from over 100 countries and 70% of attendees at C-suite level. Signal Week joined Hyve Group in 2026, alongside RAISE Summit and MACHINA Summit, strengthening Hyve's growing portfolio across fintech and emerging technology, which includes RAISE, positioned as the world's leading AI summit, and MACHINA, focused on physical AI and robotics. Additional details are available at signalweek.com.

This article was originally published on Chainwire.