Payments Unleashed EMEA

Where the future of payments gets built

Europe’s payments landscape is at a turning point, caught between accelerating innovation, intensifying sovereignty pressures around resiliency and dependency, and the question of whether AI can deliver real impact.

What is needed now is clear, experience‑led insight and honest discussion on how to translate change into competitive advantage.

Payments Unleashed EMEA - London 2026 convenes senior leaders from across banking, payments, merchants, fraud, and regulation to confront the real challenges shaping the region’s payments future. These include scaling innovation without fragmenting the market, navigating sovereignty trade-offs, and understanding how AI is being applied beyond the hype.

Join us in London on 29–30 June 2026 for an evening networking reception and one day of focused discussion, practical insight, and direct exchange between peers, designed for decision makers.

A regional event with global perspective

Building on the success of our global Payments Unleashed summit, this EMEA edition goes deeper into how payments are actually evolving, drawing on what leading organisations are doing today. Topics range from real‑world AI use cases and digital money initiatives, to the impact of regulation on Europe’s ability to grow and scale, and how the region compares globally.

Across a morning of mainstage sessions and an afternoon of focused breakouts, we will examine:

What payments innovation actually looks like in Europe today, and how instant payments, digital money, wallets, and new settlement approaches are reshaping expectations over the next five years
Whether Europe’s accelerating pace of innovation is simplifying payments, or increasing fragmentation faster than organisations can handle
Where the real tension lies between speed and control, and how banks, merchants, and PSPs balance competitiveness with stability, oversight, and risk
Whether Europe’s regulatory model is holding innovation back, or quietly creating trust, resilience, and long‑term advantage
How leading organisations are moving beyond AI hype to apply intelligence in fraud, risk, operations, and decision making, and whether “intelligent payments” is becoming the next competitive frontier

Agenda to be added soon.

Who should attend

Payments Unleashed EMEA - London 2026 is designed for senior decision makers shaping payments strategy and infrastructure, including:

Bank and payment executives responsible for modernisation and real-time payments
Fraud, risk, and compliance leaders navigating 24/7x365 threats
Merchant and PSP leaders managing multirail complexity
Payment schemes, regulators, and infrastructure providers
Technology and ecosystem partners helping define what comes next

Attendance is limited to preserve the quality of conversation and access.