B-Hive, the collaborative innovation fintech platform that brings together banks, insurers and market infrastructure players to work on common innovation challenges and build bridges to the startup and scale-up community, along with the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT Foundation), a public-private sector initiative that drives technology innovation for Luxembourg’s financial services industry, came together today in the PwC Luxembourg Experience Center for its first hub roadshow, as a result of fruitful collaboration between the two organizations.public-private sector initiative that drives technology innovation for Luxembourg’s financial services industry, came together today in the PwC Luxembourg Experience Center for its first hub roadshow, as a result of fruitful collaboration between the two organizations.

The culmination of the roadshow was a pitching session focused on highlighting some of the most cutting-edge scale-ups in these spaces today in the fields of regtech, robo-advisory, fund management, big data, AI and blockchain. The pitching companies included: Unified Post, Crosslend, Signicat, Tetrao, Delio, Infrachain, Labage,Gambit, LuxTrust, GuardSquare, ume, RiskConcile and Signaturit.

This matchmaking event did not only give financial institutions in Luxembourg and Belgium the opportunity to discover new solutions, but it also brought together major financial services companies, VCs and governmental organizations, such as Belfius, BNP Paribas Fortis, Isabel,  HP Enterprise, Volta Ventures, Flanders Invest & Trade, Wallonia.be and Brussels Invest & Export.

Fabian Vandenreydt, Executive Chairman of B-Hive, said: “B-Hive believes in collaboration between hubs in Europe as way forward for financial services and fintech based on shared objectives and ways in which we can complement one another. We’re happy to see this roadshow function as a way to ‘walk the talk’ in concrete collaboration with the LHoFT.”

Nasir Zubairi, CEO of the LHoFT, said: “This cooperation agreement with B-Hive and the LHoFT Foundation is the confirmation of the strong and trusted relationship between two core fintech hubs across Europe. This roadshow aims to concretely connect B-Hive’s community face-to-face with LHoFT’s community further promoting the fintech industry across Europe for the benefit of the whole industry.”