Roundtable on Alternative Methods of Funding

With François de Witte

24/11/2025

The upcoming Digital Finance Summit will once again bring together innovators, financial leaders, and forward-thinkers, and one of the standout moments will be a roundtable moderated by François De Witte.

Description

The Digital Finance Summit 2025 in Brussels will gather fintech leaders, financial institutions, innovators, and decision-makers from across Europe. Among the highlights is the presence of François De Witte, who will take on the role of moderator for a dedicated session on Alternative Methods of Funding.

The roundtable brings together experts from Finrack, Enky, and Mozzeno, each offering practical viewpoints and real examples from their respective domains. The discussion is designed to provide a strategic overview as well as hands-on insights that participants can apply to their own organizations.

Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the key principles behind alternative funding methods

  • Identify when asset based or inventory based financing can be useful

  • Compare traditional financing with emerging solutions

  • Recognize the role of cash flow, liquidity, and assets in funding decisions

  • Evaluate which financing structure best fits a company’s needs

  • Gain insights into market trends shared by industry experts

  • Learn from the experience and strategic guidance of François De Witte

Speakers

Target Audience

Professionals working in finance, treasury, credit, or accounting who want to better understand modern funding solutions and their practical applications.

Prerequisites

Basic financial and accounting knowledge

Meet your Moderator: François de Witte

After having worked for more than 30 years in banking, François launched his own consultancy activity, FDW Consult, Services BV, specialized in banking, finance and treasury consulting. From 2014 to 2016, he was also Solution Partner Treasury & Finance at USG Professionals. Since then, he took up several assignments, including one in the automotive sector with Louyet Group, with Ibanity, part of Isabel Group in the area of PSD2 and open banking, and with Gaming1 (In House Bank and Transfer Pricing Project). He has been independent Director at CKV, a small niche player mortgage and savings bank from 2019 until 2022, and worked from February 2023 to October 2023 as Group Treasurer ad interim with Bosal International.

François is lecturer of the course “Advanced Treasury” and “Cash and Working Capital Management” in the Master program “Finance and Treasury” at the IAE Management School (part of the University of Lille), and at Febelfin Academy. He also teaches and has a leading role in the Certificate in International Treasury and Corporate Finance Management organized by ATEL and the House of Training in Luxembourg. François is also member and mentor of Fintech Belgium.

François has a master’s degree both in Law and Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Francois de Witte

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