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Major payment & fintech conferences in 2020

by Matthieu Couet on

If you are working in the payment industry, either on the merchant or on the provider side, global conferences are the best way to meet new partners, industry peers, and extend your network. They often provide a great overview of the new trends and practices of the market, as well as an update on regulatory trends.

Here is our—non-exhaustive—list of top world-class conferences that deal with payments:

Paris Fintech Forum

Date: January 28–29

Location: Paris, France

Start the year with what is probably the biggest French event when it comes about Fintech. It gathers “250+ CEO speaker, 160+ fintechs on stage, from 70+ countries, 2600 attendees, 150+ exhibitors.”

MRC Connects Berlin

Date: February 13

Location: Berlin, Germany

MRC (Merchant Risk Council) is a well-known event organizer that focusses on gathering merchants & solution providers and industry partners (law firms, etc..). “At MRC Connects Berlin you have the opportunity to connect with your industry peers and enjoy presentations from key speakers from our industry, round table discussions, and a networking reception!”

Payments Summit 2020

Date: July 1st-2nd

Location: London, United Kingdom

This event focusses on the future of payments: “Join 200 visionary speakers and 1,000 finance and technology leaders to discuss how UX, open banking, APIs, rewards, blockchain, and security is transforming the future of payments.”

Digital Transformation in Banking Summit 2020

With 3 dates:

Date: January 30

Location: London, United Kingdom

Date: April 22

Location: Copenhagen, Netherlands

Date: September 15

Location: NYC, USA

The summit aims to help the banking sector to learn about the latest case studies in Europe, live rollouts, industry best practices and address some of the most common challenges of implementing Digital Transformation from selecting the right digital platforms, managing the cultural shift, minimizing their costs of implementation, identifying new partners who can support this transformation journey through collaboration FinTechs.”

MPE 2020

Date: February

Location: Berlin, Germany

Merchant Payments Ecosystem aims to be “Europe’s largest merchant payments conference”; “1250+ attendees; 140+ speakers; 300+ merchants; 75+ sponsors & exhibitors.”

MoneyLIVE: Indonesia

Date: February 19–20 2020

Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

MoneyLIVE: Indonesia gets straight to the heart of the challenges facing retail banks today and lays the foundation for these challenges to be overcome. Whether analyzing the potential of emerging technologies, evaluating the impact of FinTech competition, embracing corporate culture innovation, or demonstrating the transformative power of digital, MoneyLIVE: Indonesia has got it all covered.”

MoneyLive Spring 2020

Date: March 09–11

Location: Madrid, Spain

Hear from 40 European speakers across our two banking and payments stages, and get the opportunity to set up networking meetings with 350+ senior professionals.”

MRC Vegas

Date: Mar 16

Location: Las Vegas, USA

Every year, the MRC invites 1,500 participants from more than 450 organizations, situated in more than 30 nations to our lead occasion in Las Vegas, Nevada. MRC Vegas is the biggest worldwide occasion concentrated on extortion anticipation, installment handling, innovation, cybersecurity and money related administrations for eCommerce experts.”

Money20/20 Asia

Date: March 24–25

Location: Singapore

Money20/20 is back in Singapore. “MONEY20/20: where the ones to watch, in-the-know, most exciting and innovative players come to create the future of money.”

MRC Paris 2020

Date: April 22–24

Location: Paris, France

This new Merchant Risk Council will take place in France in the iconic Palais Brogniart.

Money20/20 Europe

Date: June 16-18

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Money20/20 Europe aims to be a hands-on 3-day workshop: “You’ll leave Amsterdam with a plan: a roadmap to get your company from business-as-usual to the cutting edge.”

Sibos

Date: October 5–8

Location: Boston, USA

Organized by SWIFT, Sibos is a great opportunity to meet the top players of the banking industry and get insights from different parts of the financial services industry.

Money20/20 USA

Date: October 25–28

Location: Las Vegas, USA

The last Money20/20 event of the year will take place in Las Vegas with innovative talks & animation formats.


We will update this list as the organizers communicate & provide more information about their events. Also, the ProcessOut team will be participating in some of these conferences, feel free to reach out to us and we will be more than happy to catch up!