Three days, 450+ industry speakers, over 7,000 attendees and 2,300 companies in attendance.
Money20/20 Europe is back at RAI Amsterdam from 2 to 4 June 2026.
The closest thing European fintech has to an annual summit, it’s the place where deals get done, partnerships are secured, and the year's payments narrative is set.
Here is what's worth knowing.
What the show is about this year
Four content pillars, set by the organisers, that every session ladders up to:
- AI and the Agentic Age: how autonomous AI is reshaping decisions and commerce
- The Great Rebundling: integrated services are the new competitive edge after a decade of unbundling
- Money Stack Rewired: stablecoins and new infrastructure rebuilding the plumbing
- Regulation in the Fast Lane: compliance as advantage, not overhead
The most meaningful structural change is the new Intersection Stage, dedicated to TradFi and DeFi convergence, stablecoins, and tokenisation. If digital assets are on your radar, that's your room.
The stages where it all happens
Money20/20 has expanded its stage programme this year. Worth knowing before you arrive.
- The Orbital Stage is the main stage for 2026. Arjun Sethi Co-CEO of Kraken opens here Tuesday morning, Money by Night with DJ Yoda takes place on Wednesday evening.
- Horizon Stage powered by Mastercard: the heavy hitters on payments, AI, and infrastructure.
- MoneyLab: immersive workshop-format sessions. Smaller rooms, sharper conversation. Easily the best venue at the show if you prefer doing over watching.
- MoneyPot Stage: live podcasting and audience-led content.
- Startup Stage: expanded for 2026, home of the Startup Pitch Competition.
- RiseUp & Amplify, the programming strand for women, non-binary, and underrepresented talent in fintech. RiseUp alone has accelerated 480+ women since 2018.
Not to be missed conversations
Money Open. Tuesday 09:20, Orbital Stage. Arjun Sethi, Co-CEO of Kraken, rings the bell alongside Money20/20's Scarlett Sieber. A crypto-exchange co-CEO opening a payments-and-banking conference is itself an appeal.
Europe's Payments Crossroads. Tuesday 15:30, Orbital Stage. Sebastian Siemiatkowski (CEO, Klarna) and Takis Georgakopoulos (Co-President, Fiserv). A conversation between two people whose decisions shape European payments economics.
The incumbent block: Onur Genç, CEO, BBVA (Thursday 9:30, Orbital Stage), Marguerite Bérard, CEO, ABN AMRO (Wednesday 10:25, Orbital Stage), and Kelly Devine, President, Mastercard Europe (Tuesday 12:20 Orbital Stage). If you want to read where big institutions stand on AI, rebundling, and the card-versus-A2A question, these are the panels.
Sarah Wynn-Williams. Tuesday 10:50, Orbital Stage. The former Director of Global Public Policy at Meta and author of Careless People. A pointed booking for a fintech event, and a useful signal of how seriously the show is taking the AI-and-policy thread.
MoneyLab opener. Tuesday 10:55. David Birch (Consult Hyperion), Simon Taylor, and Nilixa Devlukia. Three of the most reliably interesting voices in European payments. The hidden-gem session of the conference.
Ugne speaking on the RiseUp panel at Money20/20 Europe 2025.
Where you'll find us
Three panels across Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday 3 June, 12:05, Orbital Stage Europe's New Money OS: Can Wero Solve the Payments Paradox?
Ugne Buraciene, our Group CEO, joins Martina Weimert (CEO, EPI Company) and Kęstutis Saulis (Head of Payments, Nord Security), hosted by The Paypers. The honest question on the table: can Wero deliver the pan-European reach card schemes have held for forty years, and what does that mean for merchants who have to support both?
We've been close to this conversation with EPI for months. If you're a merchant trying to make sense of where European payments rails actually go in 2027 and 2028, this is the most useful 30 minutes of your week.
Wednesday 3 June, 14:05 to 14:35, Horizon Stage powered by Mastercard AI-Driven Compliance: From Cost to Catalyst
Ugne is back, joining Paulo Guichard (CEO, Condukt) and Kartik Nagarajan (Director of Product, Tide), moderated by Seb Johnson (Scaling Europe). We've been putting AI to work across several teams at payabl., and compliance is one of the areas where we're seeing some of the most interesting results.
The view we'll share on the panel is that LLMs tend to work best when paired with rule-based systems, and compliance happens to be one of the more rule-based functions in financial services. That combination can help compliance teams move into new markets without needing to grow headcount at the same pace, which makes it as much a growth conversation as a cost one. Accountability still sits with the team.
Thursday 4 June, 10:45, Orbital Stage Digital IDs vs Europe's Fraud Epidemic: Fix or Friction?
Breno Oliveira, our CPO, joins Paul Weathersby (CPO Identity & Fraud UK&I, Experian), Leda Glyptis (NED & Advisor, Bourn) and Dave Birch (Global Ambassador, Consult Hyperion). The question: is digital ID solving European fraud or adding friction in the places fraud isn't. Breno has been close to this conversation through a year of EUDI Wallet rollout watching.
After hours
Two official industry nights, both worth planning around.
Tuesday 2 June, 18:30 to 20:30. Money Street Fest, Reguliersdwarsstraat. Seven bars and clubs along one of Amsterdam's most famous streets take over for the most relaxed networking evening of the week. Most of the hosted side-events inhabit this strip, so it's the easiest night to find people you've been chasing on email for months.
Wednesday 3 June, 18:30 to 22:00. Money by Night with DJ Yoda, Orbital Stage (Hall 3), the RAI. New format for 2026: the big Wednesday party stays inside the venue. The closest the European fintech calendar gets to a single-stage industry night.
Just as important, the Fringe Agenda. This is the parallel programme of sponsor-led brunches, workshops, demos, happy hours, and networking moments happening across the RAI throughout all three days. The headline sessions get the spotlight, but a lot of the real conversations, the ones that actually turn into deals and partnerships, happen here.
Sponsor workshops like Salesforce's Agentic Revolution and Elastic + AWS on Tuesday, the Banking Circle Cocktail Hour, AutoRek's Wednesday happy hour, coffee creations with Bitpace on Thursday morning, and our own AI Sketch Bot activation at the payabl. stand. Worth scanning the fringe agenda before you arrive and blocking in two or three.
The payabl. stand at Money20/20 Europe 2025.
How to actually use the three days
Five things that genuinely make a difference.
- Lock in two priority sessions per day, then build everything else around them. The RAI is huge. Back-to-back sessions on opposite ends of the venue will burn you out.
- Book your meetings before you fly. Calendars filled up the week the agenda dropped. Cold-walking the show floor on Tuesday morning is the most expensive way to find someone.
- Pace the evenings. Two industry nights, not three. The conversations that turn into deals happen when you're still functional on Thursday morning.
- Eat actual meals. Block 30 minutes for a proper lunch on at least two of the three days. Otherwise canapés and coffee win by Wednesday afternoon.
- Comfortable shoes. The most repeated piece of Money20/20 advice for a reason.
Come and find us
We'll be at stand 1C190 for all three days. If you want to talk about acquiring across Europe, business accounts, the AI work we're doing in compliance, or simply what we're hearing from merchants this quarter, book a meeting and we'll hold the time.
See you in Amsterdam.