London, 15 April 2020 – Merchant payment strategies are increasingly global, and they require innovative solutions to increase conversion, manage cost, and reduce fraud across all geographies and channels. The key themes at the MPE 2020—the largest conference in Europe focused on merchant acquiring and payments—reflected these trends.

This report summarizes the key themes from MPE 2020 and thus provides an overview of the top trends and issues in European merchant acquiring and payments. This Aite Group report—produced in cooperation with Empiria Group—is based on the content provided at the MPE conference through presentations, panel discussions, and discussions with conference participants.

This 28-page Impact Report contains 10 figures and four tables. Clients of Aite Group’s Retail Banking & Payments service can download this report, the corresponding charts, and the Executive Impact Deck.

This report mentions ACI, Alipay, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Barclaycard, Clover, Empiria Group, EMPSA, EY-Parthenon, Finix, FIS, Fiserv, GlobalPayments, Google Pay, Infinicept, Ingenico, iZettle, Lightspeed, Kounta, Mastercard, Mobeewave, MobilePay, MyPINPad, SoftPos, PayConiq, PayPal, Payrix, Poynt, SafeCharge, Skrill, Spire, SumUp, Swish, Vend, Verifone, Vipps, Visa, WeChat Pay, Worldline, and WorldPay by FIS.