The seven finalists of this year’s Discover Perfect Pitch competition have been announced. Find out who’ll compete during the live final on stage in Frankfurt on Wednesday 1 October.</em></p> Discover Perfect Pitch arrives in Frankfurt for its sixth edition, offering leading fintechs from around the world the opportunity to present their ideas to the Sibos community.</p> Three new streams</strong></p> This year’s competition will be contested under three streams. Ambitious Adventurer</strong>, for those who excel in culture, people and teams. Community Pioneer</strong>, for entrants focused on others’ needs and driving change for the community. Our third stream, Established Trendsetter</strong>, is for those who have proved the doubters wrong by solving a financial inclusion dilemma or created a new and improved solution to a known problem.</p> These are the finalists who will be judged by an expert panel</a> at the live final in Frankfurt. The winner for each stream will be rewarded with an exclusive prize pack provided by our partners, introductions to contacts who can help transform their business (including private venture and venture networks), and promotion on Sibos TV, sibos.com and Sibos social media channels.</p> Ambitious Adventurer</strong></p> Our first Ambitious Adventurer finalist Finteum</strong> is a platform that helps banks address issues around traditional liquidity methods. It offers access to intraday FX swaps and repo instruments, minimising transaction and settlement times and creating a new revenue stream.</p> In competition for the prize is Timble AI</strong> which builds AI copilots enabling banks and insurance companies to remain ahead of the curve when it comes to fraud and risk during onboarding, underwriting and collections and claims processing. Their mission is to facilitate access to the right financial products and services for their users.</p> Community Pioneer</strong></p> Fighting for the Community Pioneer honours is technology and data science expert Elucidate</strong>. Through AI and machine learning algorithms, it enhances data and risk management workflows, empowering financial institutions to improve their operational frameworks.</p> They’ll be up against Gemsen,</strong> the world’s first real-time, privacy-preserving analytics and machine learning platform. It helps financial institutions to extract understanding and train machine learning models from floods of data, without ever sharing raw data.</p> Established Trendsetter</strong></p> This year, our Established Trendsetter stream received such a strong series of submissions that we’ve selected three finalists. This category is set to be especially competitive at the live final!</p> Our first finalist, Exactpro</strong> is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services. At a time when AI use in financial services is complicated by security and compliance concerns, integration challenges, unclear return on investment models and internal communication challenges, Exactpro uses bespoke tools to assist a variety of transformation programmes.</p> With Cybercrime expected to cost the world US$15 trillion annually by 2029 (Statista), MetaCert</strong> is at the forefront of fighting phishing attacks. MetaCert use modern URL classification technology to help ensure you visit links that are safe, and websites you can trust.</p> Our third finalist in this stream, Neterium</strong>, is pioneering the next generation of screening infrastructure and specialises in the development of financial crime compliance solutions. This is achieved through the production of proprietary data sets and models, and automation pipelines.</p> Join the live final and vote for the winners!</strong></p> During the live final, each finalist will introduce themselves and their company and respond to a round of quick-fire questions from our judging panel. The judges will then deliberate and announce the overall winners based on finalists’ pitch videos and their performance in the live final. In the event of a judging tie, we’ll then use audience scores as the final decider.</p> The Discover Perfect Pitch final will be hosted at 14:00 CEST on Wednesday 1 October on the Innotribe stage and is accessible live for digital pass holders. For a recap on last year’s Discover Perfect Pitch, hear from the 2024 winner here</a>.</p> Discover the future of banking</strong></p> Discover</a> is a must-visit destination during Sibos week, bringing together innovation stakeholders from across the financial ecosystem to drive connections and innovation. New in Discover this year is the AI Pavilion</a>, sponsored by Microsoft and Plenitude, making AI more accessible, tangible and collaborative.</p> Alongside the exhibition space, Discover features the dedicated Innotribe conference programme</a>, moderated by well-known voices from the fintech ecosystem and beyond.</p> There’s still time to get your Sibos pass</em></strong></a> to be part of the action. Sibos 2025 takes place in Frankfurt from 29 September to 2 October. Follow us on </em>X</em></strong></a>, </em>LinkedIn</em></strong></a>, </em>YouTube</em></strong></a> and </em>Instagram</em></strong></a> for all the latest updates.</em></p>