EBA Summer/Winter Schools and other educational seminars

The EBA regularly organises educational seminars on payments-related topics. The main objective of this educational programme is to provide professionals with new insights into key business, technology and regulatory developments impacting the European payments industry.

The courses combine interactive group work with lectures and presentations delivered by academics and practitioners. The faculty at the EBA seminars includes senior experts from banks, universities, corporations, law firms, consultancies, or IT and infrastructure providers.

Each year, around 100 payment professionals attend the EBA’s educational programme, which is seen by many EBA Members as an integral part of the professional training and development they offer to their high-potential staff.

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EBA Global Seminar 2025

The EBA Global Seminar “Global Payments: Towards Real-Time Transactions, Open Finance and Improved Liquidity Management” takes place in Toronto, Canada on 6 and 7 November 2025.

During the seminar, speakers from the Americas, Asia and Europe will provide an in-depth insight and understanding into the fast-changing world of real-time payments, liquidity management and open finance, and the key commercial, technological, security and user challenges facing banks and their partners in embracing these changes.

Please take a look at the brochure, which includes the programme outline.

The EBA Global Seminar is sponsored by Banfico, CGI, IBM and Montran Corporation.

Price for EBA Members: EUR 1,150; for non-members: EUR 1,500. The price includes all seminar activities, learning materials, and meals. It does not include accommodation.

You can register here for the event. If you have any questions, please send us an e-mail and we will get back to you soonest.

For this training, participants will receive 10 credits according to the EBA's training path to becoming a Payments Expert.

EBA Winter School 2025

The EBA Winter School “Cheaper, Faster, Better: Enhancing the user experience of cross-border payments through the symbiosis of banks and fintech” takes place in La Hulpe, Belgium, from 25 to 27 November 2025.

Questions to be addressed during the EBA Winter School 2025 include:

  • What are the current challenges for cross-border payments? How can pain points such as speed, cost, transparency, and accessibility be adequately addressed?
  • How are the industry and individual organisations cooperating to find solutions to the challenges in the area of international payments?
  • What are the prerequisites to working successfully with fintechs? What are some successful collaborations and which best practices emerge from them?
  • How are artificial intelligence and machine learning powering next-generation compliance, anti-money laundering (AML), and fraud detection tools tailored for cross-border payments?

Hosted by Swift, the EBA Winter School includes one full day of input at the Swift Lab in La Hulpe.

The EBA Winter School brochure will be posted soonest.

Price for EBA Members: EUR 2,550 for registrations received by 19 September (afterwards, EUR 2,750), for non-members: EUR 2,950. The price includes all training activities, learning materials, meals and two nights of accommodation.

You can already register for the event. If you have a question, please contact us at education@abe-eba.eu. We will get back to you soonest.

For this training, participants will receive 20 credits according to the EBA's training path to becoming a Payments Expert.

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