Voice of MPE

What are the new payment platforms & marketplaces? How to help merchants survive the recession? Are we seeing innovation stopping? Are we seeing what’s going to happen with innovation? Are platforms going to be displacing/disrupting the traditional merchant sales channels? MPE 2023 conference speakers: Peter O'Halloran / Fiserv, Diana Carrasco / Lloyds Banking Group, Francesco Burelli / A...

- How can payment technology deliver meaningful climate action? - Who is leading the sustainable payments charge?  - What does have the power to reach and create a sort of industrial revolution at speed? - Should it be the consumer’s responsibility to donate towards offsetting CO2 emissions? MPE 2023 conference speakers: Dan Graf /Earthchain, Sam Langsford / INGKA, Christopher Purdie / Receiptable...

- Are payments resilient to macroeconomic factors? - What impact does the situation have on decisions in payments?  - How to recession-proof your business?   MPE 2023' conference speakers: Laura McCracken / Accenture, Ralf Gladis / Computop, Andres Bertolotti / dLocal, and Nik Quinn / J.P. Morgan analyse the current geopolitical situation, energy crisis, rising interest rates and growing regu...

What’s the merchants’ No. 1 priority? Is cash truly disappearing? What do merchant payments experts consider the most significant change in five years? Look at what’s changing under the hood in trends impacting merchant payments with great Dave Birch at MPE 2023 in Berlin, featuring: Dennis McNulty / GetYourGuide, Francesco Altisent / Riskified, Olof Wirfelt / Trustly, Tommaso Jacopo Ulissi / Nexi...

In 2023 SoftPOS is revolutionizing the Merchant Payments  Game.  Will it keep fast-growing in 2024? MPE 2023' conference speakers: Houssem Assadi, CEO, dejamobile & Jeremy King, Regional Head for Europe, PCI Security Standards Council were in conversation with Mark McMurtrie from Payments Consultancy Limited and shared their take on: Where is SoftPOS being used today, and who are the earl...

What impact did COVID have on payment fraud, and what role does social engineering play in romance scams? The pandemic had irreversibly altered the way we live, work and shop. Unfortunately, it also gave fraudsters and scammers a window of opportunity to develop new strategies. With ever more advanced payment fraud patterns, social engineering and dark web in the game, it’s a handful pinpointing t...

What does the future hold for cross-border payments? What makes a payment method hot, and why going local matters? With each country’s payments systems and regulations so different, unifying payments and payment methods might not always be the optimal solution. It’s important to recognise the needs of specific markets and start local. The future of payments belongs to companies willing to innovate...

The world is changing, and with it are payments. Can B2B space keep up with new and emerging payment methods in an ever more digitalised world? It’s no secret that B2B payments are experiencing a historical shift. Organisations all around the world have to prepare themselves to face new challenges and an entire new reality. Will they make the best of it? Natalie Willems-Rosman from Bank of America...

What makes an outstanding payments strategy? Success doesn’t happen overnight. An effective payments strategy requires years of hard work, understanding of the industry and top-notch management. And while there is no definite answer to global success, there are a few things that might just help enterprise merchants cut it. Samuel Langsford from INGKA Group and Peter Theunis from Endava talked with...

How does regulation influence merchants and their businesses? Understanding the principles of regulation can be tricky. There's a number of things merchants have to recognise in order to run a successful business. PSD2 enabled further development of open banking, customer authentication and much more, nevertheless, it had also brought along new challenges of its own. Where does the merchant s...

Is battling climate change too big of a bite for the payments industry? Can environmental conscience help reverse the negative effects of CO2 in our atmosphere? There’s been a lot of chatter around greener payments at MPE this year. It’s important to talk about reducing our carbon footprint, however, it’s crucial to implement solutions that will have a meaningful impact on our environment. Merchan...

In this episode, we cover the story of ID-Pal, an innovative Start-up that won the category: Best Start-Up at MPE 2018 Awards. ID-Pal is a SaaS solution for KYC enabling businesses to verify the identity of their customers. Using advanced mobile technologies, ID-Pal reduces the cost and risk associated with customer onboarding, whilst removing any friction from the user experience. ID-Pal attended...

In this episode, we cover the story of two innovative payments Start-ups that presented their solutions at MPE 2020 in Berlin. Melisande Mual, the host of this episode, spoke to Sebastian Weyer & Julian Lee at the MPE2020 conference in Berlin, about the ways their companies help customers with data driven innovation in payments and how merchants use data in order to stay relevant. With a multi...

In this episode, Alan Moss interviewed Jarrko Anttiroiko at the MPE 2020 conference about a successful start-up and established payment provider partnership started at the MPE 2017 conference. Finnish Enterpay and German VR Payment entered into a successful partnership after meeting at the MPE 2017 conference in Berlin. Jarkko Anttiroiko, CEO of the Finnish fintech startup Enterpay shared his stor...

Talent management & People power took centre stage at MPE2020 conference, with the launch of its first dedicated panel sessions on ‘People for Payments’. The overall feedback from MPE2020 speakers underlined the role of talent management which is becoming much more relevant for the entire payments ecosystem.  Competition to secure talent is intensifying, as merchants and payments companies inc...