From Panels to Product Demos: How the Future of Payments Unfolded at Payment Leader Summit

At the Payment Leaders Summit in Miami, DEUNA showed up with a different energy.

While others brought slides and dashboards, we brought bold ideas, working demos, and a mindset shift. Because payments shouldn’t be treated as a cost center or an operational afterthought — they should be seen (and used) as a powerful driver of growth.

Over two intense days filled with strategic conversations, deep-dive demos, peer-to-peer exchanges, and non-stop networking, our team was fully immersed. From the first coffee to the last handshake at the cocktail reception, one thing became clear: the challenges companies face are consistent — no matter the vertical or geography.

Manual processes. Fragmented data. Missed APMs. Failed payments. Fraud leakage. Siloed analytics. And a single root cause: outdated systems holding back modern teams.

What we heard — and saw — again and again:

• Payment orchestration is still far too manual. Most companies are juggling multiple PSPs without a unified control layer, leading to missed approvals, higher costs, and no real ability to switch vendors or optimize routing without engineering heavy-lifting.
  
  
• Data is fragmented across vendors and tools. Ops, finance, and growth teams can’t get to insights fast enough. The dashboards lag, the decisions stall, and strategic blind spots get wider.
  
  
• Fraud prevention is costing conversions. Risk teams are stuck choosing between protection and performance, while chargebacks create compliance and revenue headaches.
  
  
• Alternative payment methods (APMs) are missing or underperforming, creating friction in key markets and killing regional conversion rates.
  
  
• Failed payments are quietly bleeding revenue. With poor retry logic and limited visibility into what’s working, subscription and recurring revenue is leaking every day.
  
  

Behind every challenge, there’s the same desire: to move faster, scale smarter, and take back control.

That’s exactly where DEUNA comes in.

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While the industry is still optimizing broken flows, we’re busy building what comes next. Athia — our AI-powered Payment Intelligence Super Consultant — is already helping companies across 10+ countries gain full visibility, optimize performance, and make smarter decisions in real time.

She’s not a dashboard. She’s not just automation. She’s agentic intelligence — and that changes everything.

With Athia, you can:

• Route payments smartly across multiple PSPs with no extra engineering
  
  
• Optimize retries to reduce failed payments and recover lost revenue
  
  
• Unify fraud logic and adapt based on context — in real time
  
  
• Track APM performance by region and expand with ease
  
  
• Unlock predictive insights for LTV, approval rates, and conversion lift — without waiting on manual reports
  
  

Whether we were in one-on-one meetings or demoing live, what stood out wasn’t just the product — it was the transformation. Athia is already delivering tangible results:

• +30% conversion lift
  
  
• +15% GMV recovery
  
  
• 10–15x ROI
  
  
• 12% cost reduction
  
  

These aren’t projections. They’re happening now.

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And the conversations we had weren’t superficial — they were strategic. We talked about how to reduce time to insight, localize payments without duplicating integration work, and balance fraud prevention with user experience. These are the real pain points modern businesses care about — and the ones Athia was built to solve. But this wasn’t just about the product. It was about people.

Our team was all-in — spread across sessions, running two full tables of meetings, prepping the keynote, perfecting our demos, and being present in every conversation. And when Roberto Kafati, our CEO, took the stage, he didn’t just pitch a roadmap. He made a statement:

“The future of payments isn’t reactive. It’s intelligent, agentic, and built to scale.”

After the talk, the energy didn’t dip — it intensified. At the cocktail reception, attendees gathered around our demo stations to see Athia in action, asking sharp questions, challenging legacy thinking, and imagining a world where payments don’t just work — they work for you.

Because at DEUNA, we’re not here to automate what’s broken.We’re here to unlock what should be.

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If the Payment Leaders Summit made one thing clear, it’s this: Agentic Payments Intelligence isn’t a buzzword. It’s the new standard. And we’re already leading the way.

Curious to see it in action?

👉 Book a demo and experience how Athia can transform the way your company pays, thinks, and grows.