PAY360 2025: Walking the floor paid dividends – did we meet?

Craig Mullard, Senior Sales Executive, Iliad Solutions spent a fruitful few days at PAY360.

Attending PAY360 in London on March 25-26 offered numerous benefits for professionals in the payments industry, myself included. It felt like a really good use of time. Were you there?

Networking opportunities

Promoted as Europe’s premier payments event, PAY360 didn’t disappoint bringing together over 6,000 industry leaders including policymakers, regulators, banks, and technology companies giving considerable opportunity for networking. Over the two days, I was able to meet face-to-face with a wealth of prospective partners allowing me to outline Iliad’s cutting-edge payment testing solutions.

PAY360 was also a great opportunity to meet existing clients from our portfolio of global banks and payment providers. Ordinarily, this level of engagement would have taken weeks to arrange and carry out individually.

Also of note, I’d like to mention the AI-powered networking tools that helped facilitate these meaningful connections.

Thought Leadership

In addition to great opportunities to interact, the conference featured more than 200 global speakers who provided insights into critical topics such as open banking, artificial intelligence in payments, fraud prevention, and sustainability, aligning with the conference theme “Tech Horizons: Payments’ Next Quantum Leap.”

I was pleased to attend a session that focused on replacing legacy payment systems whilst maintaining resilience. It’s a hot topic right now amongst banks and wider payment providers.

I was particularly interested to hear this debate as it is an area where Iliad’s t3 testing platform plays a pivotal role in assisting banks transition from legacy systems to more modern, efficient tech. t3 enables financial institutions to virtualise their entire payments infrastructure within a single, browser-based environment and easily compare test results from different systems in any payment system migration project. It facilitates comprehensive end-to-end testing allowing banks to successfully simulate instant transactions across multiple endpoints, significantly reducing the time and complexity associated with manual testing processes.

Conclusions from the session outlined that legacy payment systems can still provide significant value but as technology evolves, careful assessment is required to determine when and how to transition from legacy systems to newer technologies.

Additional reading

During the event, The Payments Association launched the Spring Edition of its Payments Review which includes an insightful article from Anthony Walton our CEO. It’s entitled: Open Finance: are you ready for the next major frontier in banking innovation? If you haven’t read it yet, you can find it here on pages 62-63.

Why we attend industry events

One of the key factors contributing to Iliad’s position as a cutting-edge payments testing provider is our commitment to understanding the challenges faced by the industry and actively participating in their resolution. By keeping abreast of industry advancements through events like this, we ensure that our testing solutions remain aligned with the evolving needs of future payment systems, both in terms of the products we offer and the methods of delivery.

We empower our financial institution clients to thrive in their markets by facilitating the effective testing, implementation, and onboarding of new payment systems.

If we did not have the opportunity to connect in London at PAY360 and you are interested in learning more about what we offer, please reach out.