Empiria Group
is the first and remains the prime event organizer for payment acceptance topics in Europe.
It all began with
European Card Acquiring Forum,
the biggest and most regarded event of its kind, organized on an annual basis since 2008. In four consecutive years ECAF attracted more than 990 satisfied senior card acquiring industry professionals - merchants, bank and non-bank acquirers, PSPs, processors, solution providers, card schemes, MNOs and regulators...
Following continuous market developments and progress towards more convenient payment methods to be used at the merchant point of sale, mobile and online payments are now part of our thematic coverage embodied into newly created
European Ecommerce Payments Acceptance Forum
and
European Mobile Payments Acceptance Forum.
Both new topics have an equal presence along
European Card Acquiring Forum
and the three will be regularly addressed at the newly created platform:
Merchant Payments Ecosystem
MPE focuses and explores payments acceptance at POS, covering mobile, ecommerce and cards.
Empiria Group
provides year round business development, extensive marketing and media support before, during and after the event execution. We enable our clients to expand the networking opportunities with our growing LinkedIn community counting over 3000 members, representing the core of payment acceptance value chain.
Beside providing the industry with esteemed educational and business-to-business activities, we also strive to recognize and honor the most important achievements in payment acceptance business. Former
ECAF Awards,
now known as
MPE Awards,
honor the innovators and best performing companies and individuals for achievements that help to move the payment acceptance market forward.
The MPE Awards ceremony regularly takes place during our annual conference, where the winners are awarded with ''Guiding Hand'' sculpture, by the up-and-coming young European artists.