EPCA, the European Payments Consulting Association is a pan-European association of national consultancies, founded in 1998. The European Payments Consulting Association consists of thirteen consultancy firms based in Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Latvia, Malta, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Their focus is on strategy consulting, payments infrastructure and organisation, payments product development, financial modelling and business-case calculations and research and analysis.EPCA has a substantial reach across Europe and has worked with most of the leading players in payments. On the annual EPCA Summit knowledge is shared, for professionals by professionals.