{"id":18686,"date":"2026-06-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=2fa4b7042763682afecf940118b42c7d"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:00:00","slug":"europes-payments-leaders-gather-in-london-as-control-fraud-and-ai-reshape-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=18686","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Payments Leaders Gather in London as Control, Fraud and AI Reshape the Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<i>Executives from ACI Worldwide, Mastercard, Santander, Amazon, NVIDIA and PayPal to debate the future of money at Payments Unleashed EMEA<\/i><\/p><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260609295828\/en\/2351777\/5\/ACI_Horizontal.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260609295828\/en\/2351777\/22\/ACI_Horizontal.jpg\" \/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260609295828\/en\/2351777\/5\/ACI_Horizontal.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20260609295828\/en\/2351777\/21\/ACI_Horizontal.jpg\" \/><\/a><p>OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Europe\u2019s payments industry enters a decisive phase marked by sovereignty pressures, new regulatory requirements and the rise of AI\u2011driven commerce, the industry\u2019s most influential players will convene in London later this month to debate who controls the rails, bears the risk and shapes the future. <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aciworldwide.com%2F&amp;esheet=54550807&amp;newsitemid=20260609295828&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=ACI+Worldwide&amp;index=1&amp;md5=67d49079be64d1e6f8c9c76fa2026927\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">ACI Worldwide<\/a> (NASDAQ: ACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.aciworldwide.com%2Fpaymentsunleashedemea%2Fhome&amp;esheet=54550807&amp;newsitemid=20260609295828&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Payments+Unleashed+EMEA&amp;index=2&amp;md5=8da54303b56ac7f9a09144c9ae07c029\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">Payments Unleashed EMEA<\/a>, a two\u2011day, invitation\u2011only gathering of senior payments leaders taking place 29-30 June 2026. The event brings together executives from ACI Worldwide, Mastercard, Santander, Amazon, NVIDIA, PayPal, Rabobank and Nationwide, alongside regulators, analysts and fintech leaders, with a keynote from renowned fintech author Dr. Leda Glyptis.<\/p><p>\nAcross Europe, policymakers are pushing to reduce dependence on non\u2011European payment infrastructure through initiatives such as the digital Euro and Wero, while new reimbursement rules are shifting fraud losses decisively onto banks. At the same time, AI agents are beginning to move from recommending purchases to executing them, raising unresolved questions around authentication, liability and who owns the customer relationship when software becomes the buyer.<\/p><p>\nAgainst that backdrop, Payments Unleashed EMEA will focus on four questions now shaping board\u2011level decisions across the industry:<\/p><ul class=\"bwlistdisc\">\n<li>\nWho controls the rails in a world of sovereignty mandates and global scale?<\/li>\n<li>\nWho pays for fraud as real\u2011time payments and reimbursement rules collide?<\/li>\n<li>\nCan cards survive the rise of pay\u2011by\u2011bank and instant account\u2011to\u2011account payments?<\/li>\n<li>\nWhat happens when AI starts buying things?<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>\nThe mainstage session opens with Dr. Leda Glyptis, author of Bankers Like Us and Beyond Resilience, whose work has become essential reading for leaders navigating payments modernisation. \u201cPayments is no longer about keeping systems running; it\u2019s about deciding who controls value, risk and trust in a real\u2011time world. Those choices are being made now, and they will define the industry for the next decade,\u201d Glyptis said.<\/p><p>\nThe mainstage sessions focus on three make\u2011or\u2011break questions for payments leaders: where to place bets as instant payments and fraud costs accelerate; whether Europe can reclaim payments sovereignty without breaking scale; and how AI is crossing from optimisation into execution as agentic systems begin to transact. Together, the sessions frame the decisions now redefining control, risk and value across the payments ecosystem.<\/p><p>\n\u201cThe biggest questions in payments are no longer technical, they\u2019re strategic,\u201d said Thomas Warsop, president and CEO of ACI Worldwide. \u201cWho owns the rails? How do we manage fraud in a real\u2011time world? And what happens when AI becomes an active participant in commerce? These are no longer abstract debates; they are live decisions that will determine who leads and who follows. Payments Unleashed is where those decisions get tested.\u201d<\/p><p>\nConfirmed speakers include Paul Horlock, chief payments officer at Santander, Otto Benz, director of customer technology and payments at Nationwide, Philip Bruno, chief strategy and growth officer, ACI Worldwide and senior leaders from Mastercard, Discover, Checkout.com, NVIDIA, PayPal, Nium, Fnality, Solaris and Rabobank, alongside analysts from Celent.<\/p><p>\nPayments Unleashed EMEA opens with a welcome reception on the evening of 29 June at 12th Knot rooftop bar at Sea Containers London, followed by a full day of keynotes, panels and executive roundtables on 30 June at the Hilton London Bankside, with dedicated banking and merchant tracks.<\/p><p>\nWith places limited, senior payments leaders may request to attend at: <a  href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.aciworldwide.com%2Fpaymentsunleashedemea%2Fhome&amp;esheet=54550807&amp;newsitemid=20260609295828&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Payments+Unleashed+EMEA&amp;index=3&amp;md5=127c759a3ea70d1d24ce77ee3ee430a8\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">Payments Unleashed EMEA<\/a><\/p><p>\n<b>About ACI Worldwide<\/b><\/p><p>\nACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, delivers transformative software solutions that power intelligent payments orchestration in real time so banks, billers and merchants can drive growth, while continuously modernizing their payment infrastructures, simply and securely. With nearly 50 years of trusted payments expertise, we combine our global footprint with a local presence to offer enhanced payment experiences to stay ahead of constantly changing payment challenges and opportunities.<\/p><p>\nCopyright ACI Worldwide, Inc. 2026<\/p><p>\nACI, ACI Worldwide, ACI Payments, Inc., ACI Pay, Speedpay and all ACI product\/solution names are trademarks or registered trademarks of ACI Worldwide, Inc., or one of its subsidiaries, in the United States, other countries or both. Other parties\u2019 trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.<\/p><br\/> <b>Contacts<\/b> <br\/><p>\n<b>Media Contacts<\/b><br\/>Katrin Boettger | Communications and Corporate Affairs Director | <a  href=\"mailto:katrin.boettger@aciworldwide.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">katrin.boettger@aciworldwide.com<\/a><br\/>Pierce Rohrmann | Head of Communications and Corporate Affairs | <a  href=\"mailto:pierce.rohrmann@aciworldwide.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">pierce.rohrmann@aciworldwide.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executives from ACI Worldwide, Mastercard, Santander, Amazon, NVIDIA and PayPal to debate the future of money at Payments Unleashed EMEAOMAHA, Neb.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;As Europe\u2019s payments industry enters a decisive phase marked by sovereignty pressures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18687,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions\/18687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}