Payments are becoming faster and cheaper, but where will the industry make money next? This panel looks at where new revenue pools are emerging across the payments value chain — from data and embedded services to cross-border flows and new forms of money — and which business models can capture them from 2027 onwards.

Agentic AI is moving rapidly from concept to deployment, but its trajectory across financial services is far from uniform. Institutions are experimenting with autonomous agents across markets, functions and business models, while adoption, ambition and readiness vary significantly.
This opening conversation takes stock of the emerging global landscape: where is agentic AI gaining real traction, which parts of finance are moving fastest, and what are institutions learning as they move from experimentation towards deployment? Most importantly, as the technology develops at different speeds and in different ways, where could the next wave of value emerge?