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?

Where to invest over the next 12–18 months, as faster payments scale and expectations around fraud and scam liability continue to rise.

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, or a real end-to-end shift in payments across products, checkout, and operations, as agentic commerce emerges?

Banking and Intermediaries

The always‑on bank: modernising payments without breaking what works
How banks modernise mission‑critical payments infrastructure to meet real‑time and resilience mandates without introducing new operational risk.

Defending the card: strategy in the age of pay‑by‑bank
How issuers and acquirers respond as instant A2A and pay‑by‑bank challenge card economics, customer protections, and future investment priorities.

Beyond reimbursement: scams, AI and shared liability in a real‑time world
What banks must do next as fraud scales through social platforms and AI, and reimbursement alone fails to address the underlying problem.

Merchants

Beyond the stack: payments as a profit engine
Where acceptance, fraud and recovery collide, and how merchants turn leakage into measurable margin.

From channels to journeys: the strategy behind blended retail
What to unify, what to standardise, and what to leave alone to make blended checkout actually pay off across in-store and digital.

Preparing for the agentic buyer: fraud and trust at checkout
When AI agents buy on behalf of customers, how do you protect trust and approval rates without breaking conversion?