APAC Meet-Ups
The MAG often hosts merchant-focused sessions across the region, covering a diverse range of topics and solutions aimed at empowering merchants to make informed decisions and optimize their payments processes. These educational sessions are held with
the support of our merchants’ and sponsors’ venues and are free to attend.
Who Attends MAG APAC Meet-Ups
- Merchants from both eCommerce and retail: owners, leaders, and decision-makers of brick-and-mortar stores, eCommerce businesses, and any other businesses that rely on payments processing. Professionals representing cross-verticals who want to drive positive change in the payments industry.
- Payments operations or technology subject matter experts willing to share knowledge.
- New payments professionals looking to gain a foundational knowledge of the ecosystem.
Benefits of Attending a MAG APAC Meet-Up
- Bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders within the payments ecosystem helps to facilitate collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation.
- Gain invaluable insights into the latest innovations and trends in the payments industry that you can implement to enhance your processing, customer experience, and overall efficiency.
- The MAG provides a unique platform to collaborate with a diverse mix of payments professionals, including merchant peers and service providers from the payments industry that can drive positive change and growth.
- Merchants can deepen their understanding of payments-related topics, compliance issues, and best practices, empowering them to make informed decisions and optimize their processes.
- Merchants can engage in discussions and advocacy efforts that directly impact their interests in the payments industry. By attending, you can help shape the future of the payments landscape to better serve your needs and objectives.
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Upcoming and Recent APAC Meet-Up Events
30 April 2025 MAG Merchant Meet-up
We are delighted to present a highly interactive merchant-only session on important payments topics, including Foreign Exchange (FX), POS, and strategic partnerships across the ASEAN markets. The session will feature special guests from Airwallex and JCB and include representation from some of our Advisory Panel merchant companies.
The key topics are:
- Airwallex’s Customer Value Proposition, with a focus on multi-currency settlement/FX product
- Product roadmap (including launch of POS product in Q1’25)
- How Airwallex and JCB collaborate
JCB's presence in ASEAN
For our international, regional, and local merchants familiar with payments, we invite you to stay after the presentation for some light bites, drinks, and networking with fellow attendees.
Registration closes on Monday 28 April.
Secure your spot today!
13 August 2024 Event Summary
The MAG hosted its second Merchant Meet-Up for 2024 at the Visa Innovation Center in Singapore on 13 August 2024. The event featured engaging tours and dynamic networking sessions with over 40 participants from merchants across the payments industry.
Key topics and showcases from the Visa Innovation Tours included:
- Social Commerce: Insights on leveraging payments for seamless social commerce experiences.
- Co-brand Issuance: Strategies for co-branded payments solutions.
- Payments Fraud: Exploring fraud detection and prevention in the payments ecosystem.
- Retail Innovations: Demonstrations of Augmented Reality, Tap to Phone, and Visa Flex for an enhanced retail experience.
- Data Dashboard: Personalization and data-driven strategies for improved customer engagement.
7 March 2024 Event Summary
We held a meet-up for 30 merchants at Google’s offices in Singapore to participate in a highly interactive workshop discussion on Payments Orchestration across the APAC markets.
The topics were presented by our sponsors Juspay and Liquid Group and included:
- Payments Orchestration Layer Use Case Study
- Metrics for Viewing Improvements in Payments Orchestration
- Scalability and Flexibility
