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Join David Adams, Senior Vice President, Network International, Craig Brackenbury, Director, Product Management, MPGS and Deepak Achar, Director, Omni-Channel Payments, Mastercard, as they discuss the dramatic acceleration of innovative embedded payment solutions. With smart devices and customer demand moving the goalposts and payment technologies changing from multi-device acceptance to Tap on Phone systems, the payment industry is evolving to provide enriched solutions for specific customer needs.

Damla Taskin, VP of Product Management at MPGS, shares her hot takes on the hot topics at Money 20/20, the number one payments industry event in Las Vegas. With critical insights on how to build your business in 2023, Damla talks to the challenges and opportunities facing the global payments industry, and how simplification of the checkout experience can help fight fraud and optimize CX, with KYC, COF and network tokenization top of the agenda.

Developers are the vanguard of evolution in payment technology, shaping the world like modern day magicians. We talk with our new product manager Luke Rynne Cullen about his unconventional journey into development, the importance of communication and empathy in technology, and the value of staying connected to the wider developer community via social media.

Everyone’s online nowadays, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s paying the same way. We’re delighted to welcome Adrian Burgess, Head of Strategic Growth for our partner PPRO, as well as Sadeek Varachia, our Director of Product Management, to talk about the need for alternative payment methods when a one-size-fits-all approach won’t cut it.

EMV 3DS 2.0 is here, promising 10-times the data points per transaction. But what does that mean for the payments industry? We discuss the endless opportunities offered by richer data, such as increased consumer confidence, acceptance, payments flexibility, and more. Joining us are industry experts Mark Hey, Nathan Franks and Scott Paterson.

Fresh from MPE Berlin, our EVP Maria Parpou rounds-up the latest news from the lips of industry experts. We discuss post-Covid explosions in complexity, the new phenomena of ‘headless ecommerce’, merchant demand for greater customer loyalty, and the Tap on Phone payment revolution.