PAY360 London 2027

PAY360 is the yearly payments conference and exhibition run by The Payments Association, the trade body for the UK payments sector. The 2027 edition is set for 21 and 22 April in Halls N6 and N7 at ExCeL London. Registration opens at 8am on both days, and the closest station is Custom House on the Elizabeth Line and the DLR. Visitors from outside the UK should check whether they need an Electronic Travel Authorisation before travelling. The audience comes from across the payments chain: banks, fintechs, card networks, acquirers and processors, together with merchants, big tech companies and regulators. The organiser cites more than 7,000 attendees from 2,477 companies and over 70 countries, plus 170 exhibitors and sponsors, and says 79% of visitors control budgets. The site does not say which edition these headline figures describe. On the conference side, the organiser lists more than 250 speakers on six stages and over 80 sessions across the two days. Named themes for 2027 include digital identity, open banking, cross-border payments, embedded finance and fraud prevention. Early announcements include executives from the Bank of England, PayPal, HSBC, Santander and Lloyds Banking Group. Around the stages sit an exhibition floor, Fintech Pitch Live, where early-stage startups present to investors and senior industry figures, and an evening afterparty, Pay360 After Hours. The venue page describes the afterparty as open to all and lists it from 16:55 to 19:00. According to the organiser, 89% of attendees in 2026 used matchmaking in the event app to book one-to-one meetings ahead of time. PAY360 is co-located with the Retail Technology Show and forms part of the first Payments Week, a five-day programme. Mastercard is the 2027 headline sponsor, with Visa and Equals as lead stream sponsors. Ticket prices and tiers have not been published on the official site yet, and the full agenda has not been released. For affiliates and media buyers the fit is indirect. PAY360 is built around payments infrastructure, banking and regulation, and none of the listed themes covers marketing or traffic acquisition. It is most relevant to finance and forex affiliates who want to follow where fraud controls, open banking and cross-border rails are heading, and to networks and publishers in the finance vertical that want to meet acquirers, processors and fintechs in one place over two days.