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unique focus: every angle of merchant payments
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best ROI: biggest presence of global merchants
senior level club of people in merchant payments
💖 Thank you!
💖 Our biggest thank you to all of you who helped make #mpe2024 a complete success.
💖 A huge thank you goes out to all our guests, staff, speakers, sponsors, media partners, helpers & mpe friends. Without you, none of this would have been possible! 💖
💖 Thank you for your participation, inspiring talks, your joy of networking, your dedication. 🙏
Today, let's celebrate the growing merchant payments ecosystem & community.
And tomorrow we'll be thinking about how to make the #mpecosystem better again. 🥂
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1350 attendees 160+ speakers 350+ merchants 90+ sponsors & exhibitors
Acquiring value chain NOW
- Drivers, Technology innovation, M&As and investments
- Payment data driving the business growth
- Next-generation shopping channels (chat, streaming, apps, social media)
- Local acquiring & CX operations seamless
- Future of legacy acquirers
The "payments complexity" challenge
- - Optimisation of payment methods/choices for customers
- Engagement, conversion, seamless checkout, retention
- End-to-end solutions vs payments orchestration vs payments facilitation
- Payouts distribution
- Unsuccessful payments - what can we do if the payment fails? How to manage involuntary churn?
Embedded finance
- SME, B2B and B2C successful implementations
- Acquiring as a service, Payments as a service
Marketplace & Social commerce on the rise
- Merchant of record, Marketplace, Platform or Payfac? The benefits and drawbacks of each model as it relates to their position in the market and their longer-term strategic goals
- What is the best strategy to grow your business in 2023 Investments, payment infrastructure and training explained
- Case studies, options, pros and cons
- New tech & infrastructure for connected experiences
- The growth potential of SoftPOS: incentives, ratings, loyalty, VAS & personalisation
- Digital receipts - a bridge to better interaction, sustainability and new POS experience
- Cashierless shopping: more scanning devices, more loyalty, more data points
- Shopping in the Metaverse
- Regulatory evolution: PSD2 >>> PSD3 the current status of payments regulation
- SCA - PSD3 updates on SCA
- CBDC regulation - The future of European payments and the potential of CBDC
- KYB/KYC
- Real-time checks
- BNPL - updates, changes & regulations
- Interchange fees
- What's next for Open banking//finance/data? - updates, case studies
- Open finance for financial inclusion and a cashless society
- EPI - expansion, adoption & the future
- What's new in the realm of real-time/local payments
- Subscription is becoming a large part of the business (not to mention an amazing ongoing revenue source) for many merchants. Whether it's toilet paper, make-up, software or pay-per-use bicycle, it can work for an increasing range of merchants
- BNPL - updates, changes & regulations
- Innovation in commerce via Chat GPT - how does the merchant interact with chat GPT
- What does AI in payment mean? What are the technologies and implications outside of fraud?
- How does AI differ from machine learning? How does AI impact my business & payments?
- Customer service = AI in payments. How can existing AI use cases impact payments?
- CBDC (Digital Euro)/ Stablecoins - wholesale examples (Wordline & ECB cooperation, Amazon)
- Digital euro - the role of commercial banks, the review of EC proposal - CBDCs in the world - Brazil, Africa
- CBDC and the evolving regulatory and policy environment
- Focus on servicing CBDC - Implication for payments in web3.0
- Smart wallets to manage funds, ID, medical info, etc
- Fast, secure, convienient
- Wallets >>> value >>> loyalty
- Financial inclusion with wallets - -Accessibility of payments, adoption, different shareholders' POV
- A platform for innovation & evolution
- Integrated security and fraud prevention practice for safe payments in the hyper-connected, high cyber-threat environment
- Identity & frictionless authentification, FIDO and other protocols to eliminate friction
- Fraud prevention & cybersecurity innovations
- Data Sharing
- Biometric & AI-driven ID verification
Tokenization & Vaults for tokens
- Network tokens for schemes
- Third-party payments vault vendors (for tokens)
Effective Risk Managementment
- How do you build the minimum risk environment and keep up with fraudsters?
- Strategies for chargebacks management
- Friendly fraud - solutions and answers
- Manual review best practice
- Local payment methods beyond cards
- International expansion strategies
- How to seek an edge in cross-border payments?
- Optimising FX and cross-border payments
Technology and talent are critical investment factors enabling financial services and fintech companies to achieve consistent and scalable growth. Payments have become a global career opportunity, and competition for talent within the sector is escalating. The ability of companies to source, hire, develop and retain key staff has become a critical business issue.
- The transition to digital platforms for better efficiency, cost savings, and accuracy.
- Innovations in cross-border B2B payments
- B2B payment platform security features, including encryption, authentication, and fraud detection.
- B2B payments: Opportunities for market disruption
Participate in high-level networking at MPE 2024: Connect and network with payment professionals from top global merchants
Dedicated program sessions and peer-to-peer discussions: Benchmark and learn from other merchants from various verticals in workshops and topical tables. Get involved in group chats / Q&A sessions with industry experts and get answers to your burning questions.
MERCHANT ROOMS: Focused workshop sessions on merchants' key pain points as identified by the merchants' community: How to obtain new customers, increase conversion and grow the business? What to do to lower costs and optimise payment opera-tions? Effective risk & fraud management strategies. How to improve the lifetime value of a customer? These and other crucial subjects for merchant payments operations will be covered in the MERCHANT HOSTED PROGRAM WORKSHOPS
MPE 2023 was an awesome event filled with insightful networking conversations and learning sessions. I am excited to take actionable steps with the insights gathered acorss my 3 days at MPE.
Josh Flenniken
Market Research Associate
Cleveland Research Company
Attending MPE is a great opportunity to stay up-to-date with the latest trends and innovations in the payments industry. I had the amazing chance to network with industry experts and learn from their experiences, which can helped me further enhance my own knowledge and skills in the field. The conference may also provide you with valuable insights into new payment technologies, best practices for managing payment processes, and strategies for driving growth and success in your business. Overall, attending MPE can be a valuable investment for anyone looking to expand their knowledge and stay at the forefront of the payments industry.
Ramtin Mesgari
Software Engineer
Halo Dot
I've been coming to MPE for over 12 years, have seen it getting bigger and better with more speakers, panelists, participants, companies exhibiting. Am pleased I've had the opportunity to be a part of its succes thru speakling, moderating, judging and promoting the event. Its the premier event on continental europe for our industry and allows unparalled opportunity to learn. network and have fun in the ecosystem that never stops growing and evolving.
Janusz Diemko
Co-Founder
XELOPAY
It was a wonderful week of networking and collaborating with colleagues. MPE put on a content-rich show with some great panelists. Looking forward to next year!
Lizabeth Bustamante
Director | Enterprise Market Development EMEA
Carat from Fiserv
Great place for building knowledge about new solutions, great place for networking. Only positive memories. And maybe not related - but food was delicious.
Cezary Bokun
Compliance Lead
H&M
MPE was great to connect with other partners in the fintech world. I've managed to meet with several key players, to understand more about their needs and capabilities and this is setting the base for doing new business and engaging with new partners.
Fernando Latorre
Director, Payments & Fraud
Vendo Services
The MPE Advisory Board is carefully built from top experts in CNP, POS and merchant payment acceptance area.
We are thrilled to share the results of this year's prestigious mpe awards, which took place on the 13 March as a part of the mpe 2024 conference at the InterContinental hotel in Berlin.
A heartfelt congratulations to all the deserving finalists, highly commended and winners!
This year, the key message of our awards & gala dinner was “cooperate to succeed”.
We witnessed all sorts of glitz and glamour at the event. Nearly 500 guests from merchants, acquirers, PSPs and companies shaping the merchant payments ecosystem gathered for an unforgettable evening of celebrations and acknowledgment.
A massive congratulations to our 13 winners and finalists, who have all helped to make the payments ecosystem a better place:
✨ Checkout.com ✨ DataDome ✨ Primer ✨ Rapyd ✨ dejamobile
✨ Deutsche Bank ✨ Token.io ✨ ID-Pal ✨ CelerisPay/WLPayments
✨ Guestline ✨ Inpay ✨ Torus
✨ Jeremy King
To find out more information on the exceptional work of the winners, including what made them stand out from the competition, simply click below.
thank you to mpe awards categories sponsors
mpe awards media partners
Budapester Strasse 2
10785 Berlin, Germany
+49 30 26020
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Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 18:00
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