About the Emerging Payments Association Established in 2004, the EPA is a thriving community of over 80 progressive payments companies. The EPA helps member organisations connect with prospects, partners, educators and suppliers; removes barriers to innovation; and helps its members to speak with a common voice to promote them, emerging payments and their community. The EPA’s goal is to establish the UK as the global hotspot for payments innovation. As it sets out to be the most influential trade association in emerging payments, the EPA’s mission to advance payments innovation has the potential to improve lives everywhere. By attracting investment capital and creating a hospitable regulatory environment and payment system for innovators, new entrants and disruptors, the UK can make a material contribution to the world around us. So we bring together companies across the emerging payments spectrum to help shape the future while rewarding them with commercial and personal benefits derived from connecting with the right people in the right places. The EPA’s objectives 01. To develop a growing and thriving community where people can meet, learn, help each other and do more business 02. To create a way for non-settlement bank players to gain direct access to settlement at a fair price 03. To make buying new financial services products easier and cheaper 04. To support early stage PayTech companies by providing them with access to mentoring, advice, workspace and commercial partners 05. To coordinate members’ views so they speak with a common voice with regulators, the government, the central bank and other stakeholders 06. To encourage retailers and other users of payments systems to adopt emerging payments innovation 07. To provide a source of education and professional development for people working in payments More information For more information on this White Paper, or to talk over how you could become a part of the EPA innovation community, please contact Carina Birch, EPA Projects Coordinator, [email protected] EPA WHITE PAPER, PAYTECH INVESTMENTS, COPYRIGHT © MAY 2016 12