Freedom24, a European subsidiary of Freedom Holding Corp., has been named a winner in two categories of the 2026 FinTech Awards by Wealth & Finance International, securing recognition both for its position as a pan-European investment platform and for its AI-driven Neo Compliance framework.
The distinctions underline the growing relevance of technology-led innovation in European investment services, where scale, speed and regulatory rigour increasingly define market leadership.
The company received the Best Pan-European Retail Investment Platform 2026 award, recognising its proprietary investment platform Tradernet and EU-wide reach, and the AI in Finance Innovation Award 2026, recognising Neo Compliance. The Wealth & Finance International FinTech Awards recognise companies driving innovation across financial technology, with winners selected on the basis of expertise, performance and demonstrable impact within their markets. The recognition was accompanied by an interview with Evgenii Tiapkin, CEO of Freedom24, who set out the thinking behind the company’s technology and its longer-term direction in Europe.
The technology behind the AI award is Neo Compliance, a proprietary framework developed by Freedom24 to address one of the most pressing challenges facing European brokerages: how to maintain rigorous regulatory standards while scaling rapidly across multiple jurisdictions. Built by a team of more than 200 engineers and developed through four distinct phases since 2024, the system replaces linear compliance workflows with a network of specialised AI agents that analyse source-of-funds documentation from more than 80 countries, assess customer risk profiles and monitor transactions across the client base in near real time. AI completes approximately 95 percent of the preparatory work, while qualified compliance officers retain final decision-making authority. Document verification times have been reduced from days to minutes, and monitoring coverage has expanded from selective sampling to full oversight.
Speaking to Wealth & Finance International, Evgenii set out the principle behind the company’s use of the technology. “The right way to think about financial technology in a regulated environment is as an operating layer that solves real problems within a controlled framework,” he said. The same logic governs how the company divides work between people and machines across the platform, including its client-facing AI Assistant, which operates in more than 20 languages. “AI handles the high-volume, low-risk cognitive load. Humans decide wherever outcomes meaningfully affect risk, regulation or client capital. The question is not what AI can do, but what it should decide.”
Owning the technology end-to-end is also what lets the company move quickly without loosening its controls. “Because Tradernet, Neo Compliance and the AI layer are all developed in-house, improvements ship on our timeline, not a vendor’s,” Evgenii said.
In the interview, Evgenii also outlined where the company is heading next. Freedom24 intends to evolve from a broker into a broader financial ecosystem, drawing on the Freedom SuperApp, a model Freedom Group already operates at scale. The SuperApp brings together banking, payments, investing, insurance and lifestyle services in a single account. He shared that the company is exploring a banking licence in Europe and has named Portugal, Romania and the Czech Republic among its expansion priorities for the year.
These awards highlight Freedom24’s position as a European technology-led investment company and how proprietary engineering has become central to its competitive strategy.
