Agenda
A journey through automation, resilience and innovation
Join us for an exclusive deep dive into our flagship Payments research, featuring insights from over 600 C-suite leaders and decision-makers across global financial services. This session explores how emerging technologies, regulatory shifts, and evolving customer expectations are redefining the payments landscape.
We’ll unpack five transformative themes:
- The rise of digital wallets, embedded finance, CBDCs, and instant payments
- AI’s expanding role in fraud detection and customer experience
- Organizational readiness for infrastructure modernization
- Cybersecurity and resilience in support of non-traditional models
- The strategic adoption of agent-pay and autonomous financial services
The invisible transaction: Unlocking value with autonomous payments and embedded finance
This session will explore how autonomous banking and embedded finance are changing the payments landscape and enabling seamless transactions that enhance efficiency, security and growth. We'll discuss how AI and automation are optimizing payment processes and driving innovation in the financial services ecosystems, unlocking new opportunities for businesses.
Experts:

Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product and Commercial, Mastercard Data & Services

Roel Huisman, Head of Payments and Settlement Services, ING

Dr. Roland Nehl, Head of cross-border payments, Commerzbank

Kilian Thalhammer, Global Head of Merchant Solutions, Deutsche Bank

Srinivasan Seshadri, Chief Growth Officer and Global Head of Financial Services, HCLTech
Engage in high-impact conversations as we host spotlight sessions at our booth on how financial services can evolve toward frictionless, secure and seamless transaction ecosystems.
Through deep tech capabilities and industry-aligned solutions, our theme this year centers around:
- Design AI-intrinsic systems
- Harness the power of autonomous banking
- Embedded finance as a growth engine
- Responsible AI in financial operations
Services

Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Our solution encompassing multiple service via a cloud platform. Think payment engine hosting, reconciliation and settlement, cross-border payments and third-party collections. It helps banks address concerns about security and fraud by following regulatory changes and decreasing payment infrastructure costs by 60% to 70%.

Merchant solutions
A solution that enables uninterrupted collaboration between aggregators, retailers and acquirers. Obtain Al-based sales information from merchants, receive authorization for transactions, collect funds, send payment to the merchants. This Cards-as-a-Service framework offers full autonomy to the provider, with scalability, PCI DSS compliance, card origination and more.

Payments observability
Ensure seamless functioning of systems that power payment flows 24x7 and respond proactively and effectively to any issues, alerts or failures. Our DRYICE iControl solution delivers real-time payment flow observability and offers insights to leaders - from CXOs to frontline operations teams-into business-relevant controls by creating meaningful views from the perspectives of both the business and IT.
Case studies
Transformation validated through key industry recognitions

Leveraging an AI-intrinsic point of view, as opposed to an AI-first point of view, secures HCLTech’s positioning around AI and its trust-based relationships with clients.

HCLTech reinforced that AI is intrinsic to its strategy, not simply a new focus but an embedded capability powering its transformation vision, in contrast to competitors leaning on an "AI first" positioning.
