Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients worldwide through a network of 13 offices located in key financial centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the U.S. The firm’s record of success and unparalleled client service has set it apart for more than 140 years and made the firm a model for the modern practice of law. S&C’s Financial Services Group is a leader in representing financial services firms on their most important matters.

A&O Shearman is the transformational law firm, created to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients’ most complex, multijurisdictional matters across an ever-changing world and regulatory landscape. We are a firm of nearly 4,000 lawyers, including 800 partners, working across 29 countries, and provide a truly global offering with unmatched reach and depth, tailor-made for complex, cross-border work.

The Payments & Fintech Group at Alston & Bird—consisting of over 20 attorneys—is a leading legal resource for the payments industry, with advisors based in the United States and Europe working on engagements worldwide. Our attorneys have varied, global experience in all sectors of the payments industry, including merchant acquiring, card issuing, mobile payments, ecommerce, card schemes and payment networks, stored value, gift cards, payroll cards and other prepaid products, health care payments, B2B payments, and other traditional and emerging payment systems.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 240 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers —including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.

Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Through its regulated entities, Circle is the issuer of USDC and EURC - highly liquid, interoperable, and trusted money protocols on the internet. Circle’s open and programmable platform and APIs make it easy for organizations to run their internet-scale business, whether it is making international payments, building globally-accessible Web3 apps or managing their internal treasury. Learn more at https://circle.com.

In an increasingly regulated world, Covington & Burling LLP provides corporate, litigation, and regulatory expertise to help clients navigate their most complex business problems, deals, and disputes. Founded in 1919, the firm has more than 1,300 lawyers in offices in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Washington. With one of the most sophisticated financial services practices in the world, including attorneys who have served in a variety of senior government positions in the financial services sector, our national and international clients look to us for advice and judgment on a broad array of legal issues. We take a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach to client service, resulting in an ability to deliver innovative and creative solutions. For more information, please visit https://www.cov.com.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated entities) is an elite global law firm with world-class practices across the board. Industry-leading companies and global financial institutions know they can rely on us for their most challenging legal and business matters. The firm’s top-flight capabilities are grounded in a distinguished history of 170 years, and our global, forward-looking focus is supported by offices strategically located in the world’s key financial centers and political capitals.

Deloitte’s global Payments team serves clients across the entire payments ecosystem, including retail and consumer payments, corporate and treasury management, business and merchant acquisition, and payment intermediaries. Our team represents a broad range of backgrounds and are supported by ex-regulators, payments professionals, cyber, credit and risk specialists, data scientists, technologists, designers, and operators. As a recognized industry leader, we deliver across the payments value chain.

DXC Technology helps the world’s most innovative organizations flourish in this era of AI, delivering the services and solutions that customers depend on. Our engineering, consulting and technology experts help clients simplify and modernize their systems and processes, manage their most critical workloads, and put security at the forefront.

At KPMG LLP, we understand the payments business across the value chain, with a depth and experience from which we can draw to assist our clients in any marketplace. Retail consumers, commercial businesses, and larger corporates from many industries all stand to gain (or lose) from the forces of change in the payments space right now, making it absolutely critical to identify these signals of change in order to seize the opportunities in each of these areas.

Learn more how we can help with your digital transformation strategies: KPMG U.S. Payments

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is widely recognized as one of the preeminent law firms in the world. The firm takes a business-like approach to advising its clients worldwide across a broad spectrum of corporate transactions and litigation matters by offering straightforward, pragmatic advice that recognizes the business needs of clients in light of prevailing commercial and legal realities. Our Financial Institutions team offers clients unique insight into issues relating to the financial services industry, gained through our extensive deal experience and deep knowledge of the complex and changing regulatory framework. We have represented clients in many of the largest and most complex bank M&A transactions of the past decades, as well as important and innovative capital raising transactions and regulatory matters.

Swift is a global member owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organizations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories. We enable our global community of users to communicate securely, exchanging standardized messages in a reliable way, supporting global and local financial flows, trade and e-commerce worldwide.

Unisys is a global technology solutions company that powers breakthroughs for the world’s leading organizations. Our solutions – cloud, AI, digital workplace, logistics and enterprise computing – help our clients challenge the status quo and unlock their full potential. To learn how we have been helping clients push what’s possible for more than 150 years, visit unisys.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

WilmerHale is a leading, full-service international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers located throughout 13 offices in the US, Europe and Asia. With decades of experience in financial regulation, government service and private practice, our Securities and Financial Services lawyers effectively address the full spectrum of issues affecting financial services industry participants, including international banks, FinTech startups, specialty consumer financial product firms, broker-dealers, and investment advisors. With experience tailored to each client’s needs, we provide an effective response to a constellation of regulatory questions and enforcement matters.

Akoya is changing the way consumer financial data is accessed and shared. Through a single integration with Akoya, data aggregators and fintechs can directly connect with financial institutions to securely obtain consumer-permissioned financial data through APIs. Akoya manages these relationships and serves as an interoperable solution that is available to the entire financial services industry.

Arnold & Porter’s Financial Services team combines full-service financial regulatory, transactional, and litigation capabilities with pragmatic problem-solving and results-driven determination to optimize our clients' options. With offices across the U.S. and key global financial centers, the practice includes many lawyers who have served in leadership and staff positions at the federal and leading state regulators, as well as practitioners with decades of experience in advising clients. We develop innovative structures and novel solutions to complex issues arising under relevant statutes, regulations, and regulatory guidance. We help clients offer new products and services, structure and expand their operations, and manage through challenging economic and regulatory environments.

CDW Corporation is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. For more information about CDW, please visit www.CDW.com.

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry's broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.

Early Warning Services, LLC, a financial services technology leader, has been empowering and protecting consumers, small businesses, and the U.S. financial system with cutting-edge fraud and payment solutions for more than three decades. We are also the company behind Zelle®, and PazeSM, a wallet that reimagines e-commerce payments. Early Warning partners with more than 2,500 banks and credit unions to increase access to financial services and products and protect financial transactions.

We are a leading provider of next-generation technology services, dedicated to enabling our customers to drive real impact and meaningful change. By combining world-class engineering, deep industry expertise and a customer-centric mindset, we consult and partner with our customers to create technological solutions that fuel transformation and empower businesses to succeed in the AI-driven digital shift. From ideation to production, we support our customers with tailor-made solutions at every stage of their digital transformation, regardless of industry, region or scale.

We design, build and run the technology that powers the future of payments. Form3 are reimagining the way payments work from channel to payment scheme. Our fully managed cloud native account to account platform enables banks and fast growing Fintechs to accelerate their digital transformation and scale quickly across markets.

Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at http://visa.com/