Agenda: Payments Unleashed EMEA

We kick things off on Monday, 29 June, with a welcome reception at 12th Knot at Sea Containers from 7:00 PM.

Tuesday 30 June will be filled with main stage speakers and panels, breakout sessions, workshops, and roundtable discussions surrounding the critical topics in the payments ecosystem and featuring leaders from top companies across the globe.

There will also be a variety of times and spaces set aside for you to network with and/or have a more formal meeting with other attendees, speakers, sponsors, and ACI leadership.

We will wrap the event up with closing drinks.

Full agenda to follow.

Dr Leda Glyptis

We are proud to welcome Dr. Leda Glyptis as a keynote speaker at Payments Unleashed Europe. As a widely respected fintech leader, author and advisor, she brings deep, first‑hand experience from the front lines of financial services transformation. Known for her candid, practical perspective on innovation, regulation and the realities of operating change at scale, she cuts through hype to focus on what truly delivers impact. At a time when Europe’s payments landscape is at a turning point, Dr. Glyptis will challenge payments leaders to rethink how they turn disruption into durable competitive advantage.

Innovation| Bet on what’s new or fix what scales? 

With faster payments and fraud/scam liability deadlines landing in Europe, where should leaders put spend and attention in the next 12-18 months? Scale pay-by-bank, wallets, and tokenised deposits/stablecoins (targeted use cases), or upgrade what still moves most money (cards and A2A)? 

Sovereignty without Fragmentation: Can Europe Take Control and Still Scale? 

Europe wants more control in payments. Can it get it without breaking scale? We’ll unpack what to localise, what to keep global, and what ‘success’ looks like for the Digital Euro, EPI (Wero), Qivalis (euro stablecoin), and the UK’s National Payments Vision.

AI in payments: Optimisation or Transformation? 

Is AI mainly delivering optimisation (fraud, ops, routing, disputes) or driving a genuine shift in how payments work end-to-end across products, checkout, and operations, as agentic commerce emerges and the EU AI Act’s main compliance deadline lands in August 2026? 