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      FinTech Investments Flash Report Q3

      The United States continues to lead FinTech investment funding with US$83.2B raised in 9M 2025 representing 85% of global value.

      FinTech Investments Flash Report Q3

       

      The United States continues to lead FinTech investment funding with US$83.2B raised in 9M 2025 representing 85% of global value. 

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      Black Swan Summit India

      Black Swan Summit, India

      Odisha, India

      The Forum aims to convene the FinTech and InsurTech community, including startups, corporates, investors, regulators, and academics, to foster collaboration, business growth, and policy innovation. It serves as a launchpad for emerging ventures through investor networking and matchmaking, driving thought leadership on regulatory and digital transformation. 

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      Singapore FinTech Festival

      The Singapore FinTech Festival is a global nexus where policy, finance, and technology communities converge. Designed to foster impactful connections and collaborations. SFF is a platform to explore the intersections of cutting-edge financial solutions, evolving regulatory landscapes, and the latest technological innovations. 
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      About the Summit

      Francophone finance is facing its own reversal. The CFA franc arrangement is under political strain, and the correspondent banking channels that carried the region's international payments are pulling out. The institutions built over decades remain sound: the Code Civil tradition, OHADA's unified commercial law, sovereign central bank governance. What's exposed is the network layer beneath them, run by others, and leaving with them.

      Black Swan Summit Cambodia brings together central bank governors, commercial banking leaders and FinTech operators from across the francophone world and ASEAN to build a working answer to that gap. The Summit runs alongside the 20th Sommet de la Francophonie and is designed to feed a concrete FinTech and digital finance agenda directly into the Sommet's own economic programming, as its headline economic output.

      Cambodia is both host and proof. A small, heavily dollarised economy turned its two biggest constraints, dollarisation and fragmentation, into the world's first blockchain based national payment system at scale: sovereign control held at the core, an open network built on top. Nearly 90% of Cambodia's deposits are still held in US dollars (AMRO), the host's own version of the problem it's asking the region to solve.

      Black Swan Summit Cambodia exists to convene the institutions capable of turning that model into shared infrastructure for the francophone world.

      What the Summit Delivers

      Four pillars, each a building block of the financial infrastructure Cambodia and the Francophone corridor need next.
      A Corridor, Not Just a Convening
      The Summit is built to move past dialogue: a sponsored francophone-ASEAN settlement corridor, with commitments principals can act on within twelve months
      Deeper Regulatory Cooperation
      Closed-door sessions between the National Bank of Cambodia, BCEAO, and central bank peers across both blocs, working toward sandbox agreements, mutual recognition, and real knowledge transfer.
      A Talent and Capital Pipeline
      Cambodia's FinTech Futures programme feeds a growing cohort of institutional, technical and commercial talent into the corridor — alongside a live pipeline of capital and partners for the region's fintech ecosystem.

      Summit Overview

      Hosted By

      National Bank of Cambodia
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      In Collaboration With

      The Association of Banks in Cambodia - 400 x 200
      Cambodian Association of Finance and Technology

      About the National Bank of Cambodia 

      The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the nation's central bank, is the monetary and supervisory authority. The mission of the NBC is to determine and direct the monetary policy aimed at maintaining price stability in order to facilitate economic development within the framework of the kingdom's economic and financial policy. The NBC conducts this in consultation with the Royal Government and in consideration of the framework of the economic and financial policy of the kingdom. As the monetary authority, the NBC is the sole issuer of the Khmer riel, the national currency. In doing so, this helps maintain monetary stability.​

      As the supervisory authority, the NBC has the authority to license, delicense, regulate and supervise banks and financial institutions in Cambodia. The NBC also conducts regular economic and monetary analysis, publishes various publications, oversees the nation's payment systems, establishes balance of payments, and participates in the management of external debt claims.​

      About GFTN

      The Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) is a Singapore headquartered organisation that leverages technology and innovation to create more efficient, resilient, and inclusive financial systems through global collaboration. GFTN is a not-for-profit organisation established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2024.

      About The Assoication of Banks in Cambodia

      The purposes of The Association of Banks in Cambodia (the "Association") are to promote the development of the Cambodian financial system and to protect the legitimate interests of its members. The Association shall conduct its activities in close cooperation with local and international authorities, associations, organizations, and institutions, and shall serve as a channel of communication between those institutions and the banking community in furtherance of its mission.​

      About The Cambodia Association of Finance & Technology​

      The Cambodian Association of Finance & Technology (CAFT) is Cambodia's leading industry platform advancing digital finance, financial innovation, and cross-sector collaboration. CAFT convenes regulators, financial institutions, technology firms, investors, and startups to strengthen policy alignment and ecosystem development.​

      Its flagship platform, CamTech Summit, serves as a national forum connecting public and private sector leaders to drive practical outcomes in digital finance, cybersecurity, data governance, and inclusive growth. Through strategic partnerships, international delegations, and capacity-building initiatives, CAFT positions Cambodia within regional and global fintech networks while supporting the development of a secure, resilient, and future-ready financial system.​