Join EPAA today
Establish connections with stakeholders throughout the APAC payments industry.
Engage with payments industry experts and peers to gain valuable insights, influence the future of the industry, and enhance the marketing of your products and services.
EPAA membership is company-wide, ensuring that everyone in your organisation can take advantage of the benefits.
If you have questions about becoming a member, please contact Sally Sternecker sally.sternecker@emergingpaymentsasia.org
Benefits of EPAA Membership
Influence, Collaboration and Thought Leadership
Access to Project Working Groups
→Current Projects are: Digital Identity, Open Data, Cross-Border Payments, Regulation and Meet-Her – She Knows Payments.
»Promotion of news in our newsletter “Asia Payments Pulse”
»Access to an account manager to ensure that you get the most value out of your membership and assist with introductions within the community
»A dedicated buddy member, this is an introduction to one of our members who can exchange ideas on how they are getting the most value out of the membership.
»Access to our Hot Topic Briefings (webinars), and our EPA Fuse (Education) on a first-come-first-served basis.
»Two tickets to each @HOME (Physical events)
»Sponsorship of events and involvement in co-designing content that drives industry discussion in areas of interest.
»Membership Logo
»Meet-the-Member Promotion
»Corlytics Regulations Tracker
Choose the membership which is right for your organization
Select the membership option to learn more
about the membership option that works best for you.
Fintech (Start-Up/ Scale-Up)
- Fintech firms who want to get more involved in payments
Corporate
- Corporate organisation wide membership to get fully involved in payments
Fintech Membership
Fintech membership is our special membership level to provide access to EPAA for Fintech’s who are still at start-up level. At EPAA we are aware that many payments start-ups will not only benefit themselves from access to EPAA, but also that EPAA will benefit from having access to the payments fintech ecosystem.
The features and benefits are outlined below:
Fintech Members | |||
Benefits | Start-up | Scale-up | Membership |
Payment Pulse Newsletter - member news upload | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Payment Pulse Newsletter subscriber | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Community news | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Receive EPAA EDMs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access to Hot Topic Briefings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Amount of Members | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Discount on training and events | 10% | 10% | 10% |
Membership Logo | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Meet the member promotion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member webpage list - only accessed by members | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access EPA White Papers and Documentation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member introductions - receipts | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Become an air-meet breakout facilitator | PAYG | 2 | 2 |
Eco-system Map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Corlytics Regulations Tracker | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
@HOME (Physical events) | ✖ | 2 | 2 |
Access to Round Tables | ✖ | 1 | 1 |
No of access to FUSE events - first come first served. Limited to. | ✖ | 1 | 1 |
Access to Regulation Project | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access to Project Working Group | ✖ | 1 | 1 |
Sponsor EPA Events | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access Help In Payments community (Ambassadors) | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Announcement when joining WG | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access EPA Monday.com (as part of projects) | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member introductions - requests | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member Zoom - Director General - member interview | ✖ | 1 | 1 |
Ambassador Meetings | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
Advisory Board Role | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
Annual Fee-USD | $149 | $2,600 | $10,000 |
Note 1: Start-up is defined as a company that is less than 3 years old. Scale-up is defined as a company that is less than 5 years old.
Note 2: Scale-ups become full members by year 3 membership.
Corporate Membership
There are three corporate membership options, which facilitates the access that the organisations seek to achieve in payments.
The features and benefits are outlined below:
Corporate Members | |||
Benefits | Premium | Patron | Benefactor |
Payment Pulse Newsletter - member news upload | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Payment Pulse Newsletter subscriber | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
@HOME (Physical events) | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Community news | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Receive EPAA EDMs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access to Hot Topic Briefings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access to Round Tables | 1 | 4 | Unlimited |
Amount of Members | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Discount on training and events | 10% | 20% | 25% |
No of access to FUSE events - first come first served. Limited to. | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Membership Logo | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Meet the member promotion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member webpage list - only accessed by members | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access to Regulation Project | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access to Project Working Group | 1 | All x 1 | All x 1 |
Sponsor EPA Events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access Help In Payments community (Ambassadors) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Announcement when joining WG | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access EPA White Papers and Documentation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access EPA Monday.com (as part of projects) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access to Project Working Group | ✖ | 1 | 1 |
Sponsor EPA Events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access Help In Payments community (Ambassadors) | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Announcement when joining WG | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Access EPA Monday.com (as part of projects) | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member introductions - receipts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member introductions - requests | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Member Zoom - Director General - member interview | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Corlytics Regulations Tracker | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Become an air-meet breakout facilitator | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Eco-system Map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Advisory Board Role | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ |
Ambassador Meetings | ✖ | ✖ | 1 |
Annual Fee-USD | $10,000 | $20,000 | $30,000 |
How can we support you?
Steven Chan (PayPal), who is the chair of the advisory board, sees the value in influencing the agenda that we are focusing on, for example, how banks and paytech collaborate in making cross border payments frictionless.
Andy White (AusPaynet), deputy chair of the advisory board, has an interest in the regulatory agenda for AU compared (aligned) to APAC.
Or a member like EY see the opportunity across all our pillars from being thought leaders, networking for deal pipelines and partnerships and being in the middle of the conversation for innovation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have individual membership?
EPA Asia is a organisational membership. When you join, your organisation joins, and that means that Asia wide events and research is accessible to your company across the Asia region.
My interest is in collaborating on payment regulations, how do I get involved?
As a member, you can get access to project regulation (or any other project). This work proactively monitors Asia regional regulations, and you can collaborate with other members to make your voice heard in Asia regulations. Email projects@emergingpaymentsasia.org for more details
How can EPA Asia help me to build my brand in Asia payments?
The best way to grow your brand in Asia payments is to get involved in EPA Asia – become an collaborator and advocate. Ask questions at the Hot Topic Briefing webinars, network at the EPA@Home events. Seek to join project groups. Seek to be a panellist/speaker at our events. Sponsor an event. Contribute a piece to the newsletter – share your Asia company news. Reach out for Info@emergingpaymentsasia.org if you have an issue that you are trying to solve in payments.
How does EPA Asia help improve the lives of everyone through payments?
This is our core focus, and we deliver on this in a number of ways. Firstly every time we run an event we make a contribution to Unicef. Secondly we donate 1% of our revenue each year to Unicef.
Thirdly we promote Inclusion in membership and across payments – we believe by getting more involved we will allow achieve better standards.