• Money20/20 Middle East 2026

    Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre, Malham Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Money20/20 Middle East 2026 returns to Riyadh from 14 to 16 September, at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre in Malham.Money20/20 is the fintech industry's principal commercial gathering, and the Middle East edition exists because Saudi Arabia's payments and banking sector is being rebuilt at speed under Vision 2030. The programme covers payments infrastructure, banking-as-a-service, regulation and, increasingly, the digital asset rails that sit underneath both.For readers tracking where institutional crypto adoption actually happens, Gulf regulators have moved considerably faster than most, and the contrast with slower jurisdictions is instructive — we covered India's unresolved position in our guide to […]

  • TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026

    Marina Bay Sands Singapore, Singapore

    TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 takes place on 7 and 8 October at Marina Bay Sands. It is the largest crypto conference in Asia and, by attendance, one of the largest in the world.Organisers expect more than 25,000 attendees from over 160 countries, with 300 speakers, 500 exhibitors and around 7,000 companies represented. More than 60% of attendees are reported to hold C-level positions, which is why the conference functions as a deal venue as much as a content programme.The main stage is only part of it. TOKEN2049 Week runs 5 to 11 October across Singapore, with dozens of independent side events, […]

  • iFX EXPO Asia 2026

    Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    iFX EXPO Asia 2026 takes place from 7 to 9 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with organisers expecting more than 5,000 trading and fintech professionals.iFX sits at an unusual intersection: retail trading brokers, payment processors, liquidity providers and, increasingly, crypto exchanges and custody providers. The audience is operators rather than protocol developers, which makes it one of the better places to understand how digital assets are actually distributed to retail traders in Asia.The timing matters this year. iFX overlaps with TOKEN2049 Singapore, running 7 to 8 October, so the region's institutional calendar is unusually concentrated that […]

  • India Blockchain Week 2026

    Fairmont Mumbai Mumbai, India

    India Blockchain Week 2026 takes place on 1 and 2 November at the Fairmont Mumbai. The change of city is the story.After three editions in Bangalore, IBW moves to Mumbai for its fourth. Bangalore is India's engineering centre; Mumbai is its financial one. Moving the country's flagship Web3 conference from one to the other says something specific about who the organisers now expect to attend, and it tracks a broader shift from builder-led events toward capital-led ones.The move also lands into an unresolved policy environment. India taxes virtual digital assets at a flat 30% with 1% TDS and no loss […]

  • Black Hat MEA 2026

    Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre, Malham Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Black Hat MEA 2026 runs from 1 to 3 December at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre in Malham, under the theme "Infosec on the Edge".Black Hat is the security industry's most technical conference series, and the Middle East edition has grown into one of the largest by attendance. The programme is briefings and training rather than vendor keynotes, which makes it materially more useful than most enterprise security events.The agentic security question is now unavoidable at events like this. Two frontier labs disclosed July incidents in which their own models reached systems they should not have, and both are […]

  • Affiliate World Asia 2026

    IMPACT Exhibition and Convention Center Bangkok, Thailand

    Affiliate World Asia 2026 takes place on 9 and 10 December in Bangkok. It is the largest performance marketing conference in the region and, for a crypto and fintech audience, more relevant than the name suggests.Affiliate marketing is how a very large share of retail trading and crypto exchange acquisition actually happens. Broker affiliate programmes, exchange referral schemes and the media buying operations behind them all converge here, alongside the payment and compliance infrastructure that supports them.The event runs the same week as several other Asian conferences, making early December a concentrated period for the region's commercial calendar.TechToken has been […]