Fintech Payments EU Event Calendar: Paris on 15 October leads a crowded Q4, with PSD3 and PSR plenary pending in December

Scope and changes this run

Scope: Fintech payments, EU events and regulatory dates, for choosing conferences to attend or sponsor, from 5 October 2026 to 3 January 2027 (90 days). Change window: 5 September to 5 October 2026. This is a baseline run, so every row is [NEW]. I read "EU" as events held in EU member states, so Copenhagen, Lisbon and Frankfurt are in.

Changes this run: Baseline run, no prior edition visible. All rows below are [NEW]. One item needs action first: Payments Tomorrow Paris lists its sponsorship packs as sold out, so only attendance is open there.

Calendar, sorted by first date

Date(s)	Event	Type	Location/format	Organizer	Audience and size	Cost	Key deadline	Relevance to purpose	Official link
2026-10-07 to 2026-10-08	[NEW] Amsterdam Fintech Event 2026 (AFE26)	Conference	WTC Amsterdam, Netherlands, in-person	Holland Fintech Association with Cognito	Founders, investors, corporates, regulators and tech leaders; size not published on the page I read	TBC	None found	3. Broad fintech, not payments only. Starts 2 days from the run date, so late for sponsoring.	AFE26 page
2026-10-15	[NEW] Payments Tomorrow 2026 Paris	Conference	Hotel Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel, France, in-person	The Payments Association EU	Fifth edition; guest speakers from the European Banking Authority and the European Commission; size not published	Tickets on the page; price not captured	Sponsorships sold out	5. Agenda names PSD3/PSR, digital euro, stablecoins, open finance, MiCA and DORA. Best payments-policy fit in the window.	Event page
2026-10-23	[NEW] EBA consultations on DGSD3 mandates close	Consultation	Online, via the EBA consultation pages	European Banking Authority	Banks, deposit guarantee schemes, stakeholders	Free	Comment deadline 23 October 2026	2. Deposit protection, not payments. One draft RTS covers client funds held in intermediary accounts, which may touch payment firms (my inference).	EBA release, 23 July 2026
2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28	[NEW] MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking	Conference	Copenhagen, Denmark, in-person	Marketforce (MoneyLIVE)	750+ attendees claimed by the organizer	TBC	None found	3. Covers real-time payments but is banking-led and Nordic-weighted.	MoneyLIVE events
2026-11-09 to 2026-11-12	[NEW] Web Summit Lisbon, MoneyConf Summit track	Summit	Lisbon, Portugal, in-person	Web Summit	Large cross-sector tech event; MoneyConf is the fintech track; figures not captured	TBC	None found	3. High reach for fintech brands, but payments is one track among many.	MoneyConf page
2026-11-10	[NEW] DigiFin26	Conference	Kosmos Berlin, Germany, in-person	Bitkom and Payment & Banking	500 decision makers, 95 speakers, 45 sessions; speakers listed include the BaFin president and a Deutsche Bundesbank speaker	TBC	Fintech des Jahres award applications open; close date not stated	4. German banking and payments policy room; the site has a "Partner werden" page, terms not checked.	DigiFin26
2026-11-18	[NEW] EURO FINANCE Tech Day 2026	Conference	Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof, Frankfurt, Germany, in-person	dfv EURO FINANCE	CIOs, CDOs, heads of innovation, fintech founders, VC and PE investors	EUR 690 plus 19% VAT paid ticket; free tickets by registration request for the core audience	None found	3. Innovation and AI focus, thin on payments. Free entry makes it cheap to test.	Ticket page
2026-11-19	[NEW] European Digital Finance Conference	Conference	Amsterdam, Netherlands, in-person	The Banking 50	Banking leaders, architects, risk and compliance, fintech; size not published	TBC	Apply to speak link on page; close date not stated	3. Core banking, open banking, BaaS and financial crime agenda; payments is secondary.	European Digital Finance Conference site
2026-11-24 to 2026-11-26	[NEW] Salone dei Pagamenti 2026	Trade show	Milan, Italy (venue not confirmed), in-person	ABI and ABIServizi (per the press release)	Banks, fintechs, enterprises and investors per the press release; size not captured	TBC (official site returned a block page)	None found	4. Italy's main payments show, with a fintech area ("Stay Fintech, Stay Tech") and international partners added on 10 September 2026.	Press release, 10 Sept 2026
2026-11-25 (TBC)	[NEW] Payment Festival 2026 (P19)	Conference	Sofiensaele, Vienna, Austria, in-person	P19 GmbH	600+ experts claimed in the listing	TBC (listing shows EUR 482.33 to EUR 629.75; not organizer-confirmed)	None found	3. Curated DACH payments crowd. Date and price come only from a ticket listing, so confirm at P19 before acting.	Listing (secondary)
2026-12-14 (TBC)	[NEW] European Parliament indicative plenary date for PSD3 and PSR	Effective date	Not an event (legislative date)	European Parliament	Policy and compliance teams	Free	None	4. A secondary essay dated 1 September 2026 says the procedure files for PSR (2023/0210) and PSD3 (2023/0209) carry this indicative date. Publication could follow around the turn of the year.	Essay (secondary)

Top 3 to act on now

Payments Tomorrow Paris, 15 October. Action: decide on attendance and book a ticket this week, because sponsorship is already sold out. Deadline: event date 15 October 2026, no ticket cut-off found. Why: it is the only row rated 5, with EBA and European Commission guest speakers and a PSD3/PSR and digital euro agenda.
DigiFin26, Berlin, 10 November. Action: ask the organizer about partnering if sponsorship is the goal; the site has a partner page and logo list. Deadline: none published, so ask before late October. Why: BaFin and Deutsche Bundesbank speakers put regulators and bank buyers in one room.
Salone dei Pagamenti, Milan, 24 to 26 November. Action: reach the organizer for exhibitor terms and confirm the venue, since the official site blocked my fetch. Deadline: unknown. Why: the 10 September 2026 release adds a fintech area and international partners. Whether this affects exhibitor terms is unknown.

These are recommendations for you to confirm. Regulatory dates are information, not legal advice.

Open items

MoneyLIVE Payments Europe, 11 to 12 November 2026, Amsterdam: only an aggregator lists these dates and the organizer's events listing shows no such event, only two unnamed entries dated 11 November 2026. Treat as unconfirmed.
Payment Festival (P19), 25 November 2026: the date and price come from a ticket listing. P19's own site returned an error, so recheck at origin.
PSD3 and PSR plenary, 14 December 2026: indicative and from a secondary source. The Parliament procedure file was not reachable, so recheck there.
Costs and early-bird deadlines: not found on most organizer pages. Left blank or TBC rather than guessed.
Plausible but unchecked: MERGE Madrid, EBA payments-specific consultations, ECB and EPC calendars, and digital euro Council or Parliament dates.
Outside the window, for planning: Frankfurt Digital Finance's next event is 10 to 11 February 2027, and ePay Summit Europe is 25 May 2027 in London (UK, not EU).

Coverage note

Not reached: the Salone dei Pagamenti website (403 block), the European Parliament press and Legislative Train pages (empty response), and the P19 website (502). The EPC, ECB and EU Council calendars were not checked.