Crypto, digital assets, stablecoins and agentic AI are becoming a central part of the agenda at the major fintech conferences in the Nordic region. It also applies to Stockholm Fintech Week, which takes place March 18-19 in Stockholm.
In this article, you'll get a practical guide to this year's Stockholm Fintech Week programme — focusing on sessions, tracks and meeting venues that are most relevant to you building, investing or working with digital assets, stablecoins and next-generation financial infrastructure. We also include sessions on agentic AI in banking and finance, because we believe stablecoins and digital currencies will become payment methods for AI agents in the future.
Sveriges Finansinspektion invites banks, payment companies, crypto players and others to dialogue on how stablecoins can affect financial stability, consumer protection and competition in Sweden. The meeting also provides an opportunity to put questions about MiCA and upcoming EU rules directly to the Authority.
Wednesday 18 March, 10:00 — 11:30, Sveavägen 44, Stockholm.
Registration/more information (the event is fully booked)
Finansinspektionen's dialogue meeting on stablecoins
Participating in this fireside chat is Ken Villum Klausen, founder and CEO of the Neobank Lunar. The session will be about how agentic AI can move the bank into the background and leave the customer's everyday life at the centre. The conversation is about when the bank should be visible, when AI should work quietly in the background, and how simplicity and clear frameworks build trust.
March 19, 09:10 — 09:40, AI Native Finance (fireside chat).
Mats Persson Bergius, CEO of Marginalen Bank, tells how the bank has built real-time payment infrastructure and banking-as-a-service. Marginalen is also relevant in relation to digital finance because, among other things, the bank has partnered with the crypto exchange Safell, where Marginalen delivers banking services directly into Safello's apps — a concrete example of a closer link between banking and crypto.
March 19, 10:00 — 10:20 a.m., Innovate Stage.
During Stockholm Fintech Week, Nordic crypto exchange Firi invites you to an interactive workshop where they review five typical pitfalls institutional players face when entering digital and crypto assets — from operational management and secure storage to regulatory requirements, risk management and infrastructure selection. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own concerns, learn from concrete experiences from institutional onboarding, and see how compliant solutions like Firi Black can be used to participate securely in the market.
March 19, 10:00 — 11:00, Frontier Stage, Munich Brewery.
Registration/more information
FIRI Workshop on Institutions and Crypto
This session looks at how smart contracts and programmable money can automate B2B payments from end to end, where code triggers approval, execution and instant settlement with digital currencies. The panel discusses which tasks still require human control when settlement occurs instantaneously, and how this changes the role of traditional finance and finance teams.
We highlight two panelists in particular: James Butterfill of CoinShares, which offers crypto-based ETF/ETPs and Martynas Pilkis of Axiology, who is now building a tokenization platform.
March 19, 10:20 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.
Norwegian Sander Andersen, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Stockholm-listed H100 Group, shows how bitcoin can be used strategically in balance sheet and capital structure. Andersen explains how the “Bitcoin Equity” model aims to maximize BTC per share and build value around bitcoin‑native companies.
March 19, 10:20 — 10:40 a.m.
The panel is looking at how fraudsters exploit real-time payments, and how institutions are responding with new tools and collaboration. Among the participants are Erik Vesterlund (formerly Goobit, now Reqport) and Tara Abdi (formerly Safello, now Brayn's AI), both of whom build solutions against financial crime in high-speed environments.
March 19, 11:00 — 11:40, Ignite Stage
Christoffer De Geer, CEO of Bitcoin Treasury Capital (BTC AB), shares his experience of building a Swedish bitcoin treasury company. He shows how companies and investors can increase their exposure to bitcoin in a more structured and tax-efficient way.
March 19, 11:00 a.m. — 11:20 a.m.
Saeed Rafay, Technical Product Owner for Innovation and Digital Assets at ABN AMRO, shows a scenario where personal AI agents handle travel, payments and coordination. He discusses how this moves fintech from apps to agents, and what demands it places on regulation, trust and control.
March 19, 13:00 — 13:20, AI Native Finance.
Lotta Domonkos, CEO of Fimento, argues that financial decisions are an ideal application for agentic AI because they are high-risk and require verifiability. She shows how AI agents can cross-validate data, explain decisions, and make credit and risk assessments more transparent and sound.
March 19, 13:20 — 13:40.
Chris Skinner, the author behind Smart Money and the voice behind The Finances, explaining how money is becoming digital, intelligent and embedded in everything around us. He looks at what this means for banks, central banks, cryptocurrencies and digital central bank money -- and what role centralized institutions might have in a more decentralized world.
March 19, 13:20 — 13:40
The panel discusses how API-driven platforms can build personalized, automated portfolios across markets. They discuss how tax, currency and risk are managed, while allowing solutions to scale without losing control and compliance. Current participants: Lennart Wilke from crypto exchange Firi and Rebecca Koskinen from Stack by Me, who work on offering crypto in addition to stocks and mutual funds.
March 19, 13:40 — 14:20, Ignite Stage
This session addresses how platforms, orchestration layers, and blockchain/tokenization bring together fragmented financial infrastructure into more holistic solutions. The focus is on how this cuts integration friction, strengthens compliance and changes how money is moved and monitored globally.
March 19, 15:40 — 16:20, Ignite Stage.
Feel free to give us tips if there are more sessions that you think go into topics related to digital assets, stablecoins, blockchain or agentic AI.
