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MPE covered the latest technologies, trends & business models of merchant payment acceptance, checkout & conversion, fraud & security and changing customer shopping experience.
SEE COMPLETE LIST OF SPEAKERS SEE AGENDAThis award recognises excellence in direct merchant payment acceptance partnerships. The winner will have cultivated successful, sustainable, and mutually advantageous relationships with their merchant customers, demonstrating a proven track record of fostering strong connections, delivering value, and supporting the growth of their merchant partners in the payment acceptance ecosystem.
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This award recognises the most forward-thinking payment solution that showcases groundbreaking payment technology or business flow, and delivers actual benefits, value, and differentiation to merchants while enhancing the payment experience for customers. Open to PSPs, ISOs, PayFacs, Aggregators, Orchestrators, Acquirers, Embedded Finance providers, crypto merchant solutions, instant payment providers, and other payment service companies.
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This award goes to the company that consistently demonstrates excellence through advanced technologies to enhance merchant operations, excluding fraud prevention. The winner exhibits the use of innovative solutions in areas like customer loyalty, engagement, support, or optimisation, empowering merchants to improve decision-making and customer experiences.
This award goes to the solution provider that excels in empowering merchants to expand their global reach and increase revenue. The winner demonstrates outstanding commitment to accountability and transparency, while effectively minimising risks and complexities associated with cross-border sales.
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This award goes to the company that most effectively leverages open banking data for payment initiation, facilitating seamless transactions between end-users and merchants. The winner demonstrated how their solution enhances the customer experience throughout the payment process, streamlining transactions and adding value for both consumers and businesses.
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This award goes to a technology solution that significantly enhances regulatory compliance and/or operations for merchants, issuers, or acquirers. The winner demonstrates innovative solutions that streamline adherence to regulations and industry standards, including areas such as regulatory reporting, risk management, identity control, compliance monitoring, fraud prevention, or security measures.
This award goes to the organisation that has developed/deployed the best omni-channel payments acceptance solution, providing value and differentiation for merchants and a great payments experience for users.
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This award goes to the organisation offering the best, most comprehensive, and most beneficial platform or marketplace that supports merchants or other players in the merchant payments ecosystem, such as banks, PSP, service providers, and consumers, with solutions in any area of the ecosystem.
This award goes to the most innovative solution that demonstrates exceptional benefits in fraud prevention, identity verification, or authentication management, significantly enhancing digital transaction security, delivering tangible protection for merchants and customers.
This award goes to the most effective Payments Orchestration Solution that seamlessly integrates and optimises multiple payment providers and methods, ultimately empowering businesses to streamline their payment processes and enhance overall financial operations.
This award goes to the most innovative or successful new B2B or B2C embedded finance project, recognising excellence in integrating financial services into non-financial brands, companies, or platforms. The winning entry should showcase a specific implementation that seamlessly incorporates financial products such as lending, payments, cards, accounts, or insurance into a customer journey.
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Open to any payments businesses with a clear and well-developed ESG strategy who can demonstrate how their strategy is making a substantial positive impact in any of the E,S,G pillars, particularly when supported by technology. This will show evidence of how progress is being made against specific near and long-term objectives such as net-zero, carbon offsetting, UN Sustainable Development Goals, social purpose and supply chain transparency goals. Entries should include a case study of a live initiative or programme as well as up-to-date supporting data/evidence of its impact against the set objectives and a clear definition of KPIs.
This award will go to the winner of the Innovation hub competition for the most innovative start-up company in merchant payments ecosystem.
To be awarded to the individual (or team) who has provided a significant contribution to the development of the merchant payments ecosystem either on a domestic or international basis.
