📅 Categories for payments companies extended deadline: February 14, 2025
📅 Category for start-ups (Innovation hub start-up competition) deadline: February 21, 2025
The merchant payment ecosystem (mpe) awards, held annually with the mpe conference, have been a hallmark of innovation and recognition in the payments industry since 2013. They highlight top companies shaping the future of merchant payments.
The mpe awards are renowned for their credibility and integrity, built on a foundation of transparency, impartiality, and merit-based recognition. Winning an mpe award signifies true achievement, demonstrating a company’s leadership and commitment to excellence within the merchant payments ecosystem.
mpe awards media partners
- featuring 12 categories
Winners will be selected by the panel of independent expert judges.
- featuring 1 category
mpe influencer of the year
The winner will be determined via public online voting.
- featuring 1 category
best start-up innovation award
Winner will be determined by Innovation hub judges & mpe audience
- Online Voting starts Feb 11 & closes Feb 25
- Nominees and employees from nominated companies are not permitted to vote for themselves.
- Only Merchant payments industry professionals are permitted to vote.
- One (1) vote may be cast by each individual (from corporate email address only) for one (1) individual/company in this category.
- A person can only vote once using a valid corporate email address. Votes sent from disposable email addresses will be rejected. The organizers reserve the right to cancel votes they believe to be fraudulent.
- The total number of valid votes submitted during the Voting Period will be tabulated. The nominee receiving the highest number of valid votes will be declared the winner.
- The winner will be published on the Voting Website after the Voting Close Date.
- The winner will be announced live during the mpe awards 2025 gala dinner & ceremony, which will take place on March 19, 2025.
There are 13 categories which can be entered by any merchant, acquiring bank, non-bank acquirer, network service provider, payment service provider, mno, scheme, processor, payment method or solution provider focused on payment industry.
You can enter a maximum of three categories in a particular year, however not with the same entry into 3 different categories.
Solutions must be live and out of the test phase at the time of submission. Pilot programmes will be accepted but must clearly be described as such, and the judges will be looking for evidence of success in the pilot.
Yes, you can enter the same category/categories with the same or different product/service. you can also enter category/categories you have not entered before with a product/service you have submitted before. winners from the previous years should refer to the next rule.
Definitely, the only condition here is that you cannot enter neither the same nor the rest of the categories with the same product/service you won with previously. However, you can enter the same category you won previously with a different product/service.
You can submit your nominations from November 4 – February 7. Please note that no further extensions will be permitted unless by prior written agreement from the mpe awards organiser team.
The mpe team will contact the finalists on March 4. The mpe 2025 awards ceremony and gala dinner will be a part of the mpe 2025 conference and exhibition, March 18-20, Berlin. The winners will be announced at the gala dinner on March 19.
Companies sending the submissions must specifically address the key criteria set out in the relevant category. When preparing your submission, please review the criteria carefully, then ensure that it contains sufficient robust information for a specific category.
