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Andrea Rouse Dive into Payments MAGnified 26, Where the Future of Commerce Comes to Life!
Jan 22, 2026Payments MAGnified 26 is February 17–20, 2026, in San Diego, and the MAG has curated a lineup of sessions built for depth, relevance, and forward-looking insights for payments professionals across business and technology teams. This event is a forum to unpack the technologies and trends shaping the next era of payments, from AI and agentic commerce to stablecoins and alternative payment methods. Here are some key sessions you won’t want to miss.
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Leadership Lens
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Lisa Crockett The Payments Content Roadmap: What’s Next, Why It Matters, and What’s Landing Q1 2026
Jan 15, 2026If payments feels harder to keep up with lately, you’re not imagining it. The pace has accelerated. New capabilities arrive before old ones are fully operational. Fraud tactics evolve faster than fraud mitigations can respond. Global expansion introduces new layers of authentication, routing, and reporting. And the most consistent question we hear from members is simple: What’s coming next, and how do we plan for it?
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Advancing Payments
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Kelly Andrus Advancing Payments Evolving Our SIGs: A New Format Designed for How Merchants Operate Today
Jan 14, 2026Our Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have long been one of the most valued parts of MAG conferences, earning consistently high satisfaction for their open, merchant-only discussions. Since their introduction at MAG’s inaugural conference in 2008, SIGs have evolved alongside commerce itself, expanding in format, frequency, and focus.
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International Perspective
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Paul Tunstall Unlocking Cross-Border Real-Time Payments in Asia: From Fragmentation to Harmonisation
Dec 1, 2025Industry leaders call for interoperable standards, merchant inclusion, and coordinated regulation to drive the next phase of real-time payments (RTP) growth across Asia.
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Policy Perspective
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Beth Provenzano Government Shutdown Ends: Regulatory and Legal Developments
Nov 21, 2025As 2025 comes to a close and the federal government re-opens, there are many payments policy issues to watch carefully, including credit card interchange and network rules, debit reform, challenges to state laws regulating interchange, and penny circulation complexities.
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Payments Technology
Howard Xiao - Head of Strategic Partnerships at VGS, Laura Furlong - Senior Marketing Manager at VGS Agentic Commerce: Redefining the Consumer Journey, Liability, and Loyalty
Oct 9, 2025The rise of agentic commerce, and a world of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that research, recommend, and even purchase on behalf of consumers, is set to transform the payments ecosystem. For merchants, issuers, and consumers, this new paradigm raises pressing questions.
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FastSpring is a merchant designed to help companies that offer software-as-a-service (SaaS), games, and other digital products by handling all the complexities of selling online — especially when expanding globally.
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Denny’s Corporation is one of America’s largest full-service restaurant chains based on number of restaurants. As of June 25, 2025, the Company consisted of 1,558 restaurants, 1,474 of which were franchised and licensed restaurants and 84 of which were company operated.
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City of Minneapolis
Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 census, it is the state's most populous city. Located in the state's center near the eastern border, it occupies both banks of the Upper Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities, a metropolitan area with 3.69 million residents.
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Founded in 2001, Zumba® is the world’s largest dance-fitness brand, transforming lives through high-energy workouts that blend cardio and fun. With more than 15 million weekly participants in 200,000 locations across 185 countries, Zumba® offers classes for every age, fitness level, and ability. From heart-pumping cardio to stress relief and confidence boosts, Zumba® brings the world’s rhythms to a workout that feels more like a party than a chore — no dance experience needed. In addition to its original Zumba program, the company offers 10 Zumba specialty classes – from aquatic-based to those specifically designed for active older adults and children. In 2016, Zumba launched its first non-dance, HIIT workout STRONG Nation®, where music acts as the main motivator. In 2023, Zumba launched CIRCL Mobility®, a revolutionary new program designed to unlock the body's full potential through flexibility, breathwork, and mobility exercises. The Zumba® lifestyle is rounded out by the company's many consumer product offerings, including video games, VR +MR experiences, original music, activewear and footwear, and interactive Fitness-Concert™ events.
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doTERRA is the world's premier essential oil manufacturer. Founded in 2008, doTERRA has provided the highest-quality essential oils to people around the globe using its "Co-impact sourcing" mission of sustainable farming and economic empowerment.
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Dropp is a next-generation payment platform built to help merchants accept payments as commerce moves beyond cards.Our platform offers two powerful alternatives for everyday purchases: Pay-by-Bank via U.S. real-time payment (RTP) rails and Pay-by-Stablecoin (USDC), both designed to deliver instant settlement, lower transaction costs, and a better checkout experience for consumers.Dropp gives merchants a practical, unified way to accept real-time payments across digital, in-store, and mobile environments without the high fees, delays, and chargeback risks associated with traditional card networks. With simple integrations into POS systems at convenience and fuel stores, eCommerce platforms, Dropp makes it easy to add modern payment options alongside existing methods.Beyond payments, Dropp enables merchants to engage customers directly through built-in digital offers, promotions, and incentives at checkout. Merchants can reward shoppers, drive repeat visits, and influence purchasing behavior without relying on third-party loyalty programs or expensive card-funded discounts.For consumers, Dropp offers fast, secure payments with flexible funding options. For merchants, it delivers lower costs, immediate access to funds, greater control over payment acceptance, and new tools to attract and retain customers.Dropp is purpose-built for high-volume, small-ticket transactions, fuel, convenience retail, quick-service restaurants, digital content, subscriptions, and more, where card economics no longer make sense. -
When qualified customers experience a false decline… your revenue, CAC, and customer lifetime value are at risk.
At the exact moment the payment is rejected, FlexFactor's AI-Powered platform intervenes in real-time to save what otherwise would have been those lost sales — actually preventing the consumer from ever experiencing a decline entirely for customer-initiated transactions (CIT - i.e., one-time purchases) and significantly improving recovery rates for merchant-initiated transactions (MIT - i.e, subscriptions).
The icing on the cake? It takes minutes to integrate, and requires no checkout changes or disruptions. We're invisible to your customers, but invaluable to you! -
BVNK is the stablecoin-powered financial stack for enterprises. Build financial products. Unlock new markets. Move money in seconds across 130+ countries. One platform for every use case. Trusted by Worldpay, Deel and Flywire. Processing billions annually.
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Testlio’s fully managed and AI-driven crowdsourced testing platform connects global quality experts with product and engineering teams to ensure every release works for every user, everywhere. On 600K+ real devices. In 100+ languages. With 800+ payment methods. The company is 100% remote, with team members in 150+ countries. Female-founded, approximately 46% of full-time employees are women. Testlio’s clients include some of the world’s leading brands, such as Netflix, Clari, Strava, Whatnot, Merck, and more. As an ISO 27001:2022 certified vendor and trusted Microsoft Supplier, we apply rigorous security measures aligned with global privacy expectations, such as GDPR, to every client engagement. Learn more at testlio.com.
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Fime, along with its consulting division Consult Hyperion, enables its clients to create and launch trusted and secure payments, smart mobility and digital identity solutions. We offer a global industry perspective with local insights and a unique track record in strategic and technical consulting, test platforms and testing services.With over 900 consultants and engineers around the world we provide the expertise, partnering with clients to define, design, deliver, and test their products and services. We work with our clients to turn product ideas into reality, de-risking decision making, accelerating time to market and delivering competitive advantage. -
Founded in 2020, Justt is the world's first smart chargeback solution that tailors each response and improves over time. Unlike template-based solutions, it uses AI-powered automation and domain expertise to generate dynamic arguments, customizing each response, no matter the volume or complexity. With a machine learning engine that's continuously running A/B tests in the background, Justt is the only chargeback solution that self-improves over time—helping merchants win more disputes effortlessly.