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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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Leadership Lens
Meg Thaxton Are You Making the Most of Your MAG Sponsorship?
Oct 7, 2025As an Annual Sponsor of the Merchant Advisory Group (MAG), you signed on to support the MAG community and help drive positive change and innovation in the payments industry. But are you taking full advantage of everything that comes with your sponsorship? Each of our sponsorship tiers comes with a robust list of benefits, and we don’t want you to miss a single thing. From speaking opportunities, to comp conference passes and more, here’s a quick refresher to make sure you are taking full advantage of your sponsor benefits and maximizing the return on your investment.
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MAG Insider
Abby Arseneau Your MAG Update: Driving Innovation and Merchant Collaboration
Sep 30, 2025The Merchant Advisory Group (MAG) continues to advance the merchant voice across the payments industry, from technology upgrades to thought leadership on emerging trends. With exciting changes on the horizon, including a new database, active engagement at key industry events, and leadership in shaping conversations around agentic commerce, the MAG is driving collaboration and delivering resources that matter most to our members and sponsors.
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Advancing Payments
Kelly Andrus FOMO Realized - Take My Word for It
Sep 24, 2025Fear of missing out (FOMO), isn't just an emotional state brought on by an inability to participate, it can later lead to an overload. You miss something you planned to attend, and everything you’d hoped to accomplish is left undone. That's what happened to me earlier this month, when a medical issue caused me to cancel my attendance at MAG Payments Conference 25. I had to miss just my fourth MAG event out of 35 in MAG's history, and of all the conferences to miss, this was the one I least wanted to sit out.
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International Perspective
Paul Tunstall NEW APAC Offering on Real-Time Payments!
Sep 10, 2025The Merchant Advisory Group (MAG) and Elishah Consultancy Pte. Ltd. are excited to introduce a new APAC-focused offering: “Unlocking Growth: How Real-Time Payments Help Merchants Unlock Business Resilience and Reach” by Joel Tong.
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Policy Perspective
Josh Pynn Fed Spotlights Pay-by-Bank While FTC Rule Is Vacated
Aug 19, 2025On July 7, 2025, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) published a FEDS Note exploring the current and potential role of Pay-by-Bank (PBB) as a consumer-to-business payment method in the U.S.. The note, authored by Federal Reserve economist Byoung Hwang, reviews the conditions under which PBB might gain traction in merchant transactions and offers insights into adoption trends, enabling technologies, and regulatory frameworks.
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MEET OUR NEW MEMBERS
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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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Vivint Smarthome
Vivint offers a smart home security system that’s custom-built for your unique home.
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Fedex
FedEx Corp. engages in the provision of transportation, e-commerce, business services, and business solutions. Offers transportation and delivery services. The company was founded by Frederick Wallace Smith on June 18, 1971, and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.
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Rollins, Inc. is a leading, global company that provides pest control services through its subsidiaries and franchises. Through our leading brands, such as Orkin and Critter Control, we offer top-notch services to 2.8 million commercial and residential customers in the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, Asia, Central and South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa.
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PetSmart LLC
PetSmart is the leading pet retailer offering products, services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets. At PetSmart, we love pets and we believe pets make us better people. Every day with every connection, PetSmart’s passionate associates help bring pet parents closer to their pets so together they can live more fulfilled lives. This vision impacts everything we do for our customers, the way we support our associates and how we give back to our communities.
PetSmart operates nearly 1,700 pet stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, as well as more than 200 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel® dog and cat boarding facilities. We provide a broad range of competitively priced pet food and products as well as services such as dog training, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetSmart Doggie Day Camp™ and pet adoption.
PetSmart, PetSmart Charities® and PetSmart Charities® of Canada work with nearly 4,000 animal welfare organizations to bring adoptable pets into stores so they have the best chance possible of finding a forever home. Through this in-store adoption program and other signature events, PetSmart has facilitated over 10 million adoptions, more than any other brick-and-mortar organization. -
Patreon is a media and community platform where creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive works and experiences.
MEET OUR NEW SPONSORS
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Creators of EVC® (Ellipse Verification Code), the technology that generates a Dynamic Card Security Code every time the payment card is swiped, dipped, tapped, or triggered with an app. Ellipse is a FinTech company shaping the future of smart cards. Our mission is to address the payment ecosystem’s varied needs with our solutions and to make digital payment safer. Founded in 2017, Ellipse is based in Los Angeles, with a global team.
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Triple-A is a global stablecoin payment institution licensed in the United States, Europe, and Singapore. It enables businesses like Grab, Farfetch and Razer to pay and get paid in both stablecoins and local currencies—without having to hold or convert cryptocurrencies.
Triple-A offers 2 key solutions:
A) Stablecoin Acceptance – A payment gateway that allows merchants to accept USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH, PYUSD (Paypal USD) from 560M+ digital currency owners globally with next-day settlement in local currency.
B) Global Stablecoin Payouts – Enables businesses to pay suppliers, employees, and vendors in stablecoins globally, at lower costs.
The company is led by Eric Barbier, a seasoned fintech entrepreneur who previously founded and scaled Mobile 365 (acquired by SAP) and TransferTo (now Thunes & DT One).
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At Nomupay, we're all about making global payments simple. Since 2021, we’ve been on a mission to remove complexity and help businesses expand. Operating across Europe, EMEA and Asia, we’ve built a seamless, all-in-one payment solution. From pay-ins, and payouts to acquiring (leveraging our domestic licenses), our platform fits every business model - whether you're an e-commerce or a brick-and-mortar merchant, or a marketplace. Along with cards, we support global wallets and local payment methods in local currencies, optimising conversion in every market and driving the growth of 1,500+ merchants, including Netflix, Spotify, IKEA and Nike. Payments shouldn’t be holding your business back. We're here to simplify, streamline and enable global commerce - one payment at a time.
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2C2P has a simple mission — to help the world's leading companies in emerging markets accept and make payments seamlessly.Over the years, we have aggregated international and local payment providers, card schemes, financial institutions and more onto our platform, so your customers can have access to every payment option with one point of integration.Today, we are a leading payments platform helping fast-growing enterprises like tech giants, online marketplaces and global retailers accept payments from billions of people everywhere.
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Skeps is a credit gateway platform being used by a dozen large financial institutions and thousands of merchants as their loan origination/management system and credit orchestration facilitator.
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The Commercial Bank consists of the Commercial and Institutional operating segments. The Commercial operating segment is a full-service, commercial banking platform that focuses primarily on serving the borrowing, cash management, and capital markets needs of middle market clients within Key’s 15-state branch footprint. The Institutional operating segment operates nationally in providing lending, equipment financing, and banking products and services to large corporate and institutional clients. The industry coverage and product teams have established expertise in the following sectors: Consumer, Energy, Healthcare, Industrial, Public Sector, Real Estate, and Technology. It is also a significant, national, commercial real estate lender and third-party master and special servicer of commercial mortgage loans. The operating segment includes the KeyBanc Capital Markets platform which provides a broad suite of capital markets products and services including syndicated finance, debt and equity underwriting, fixed income and equity sales and trading, derivatives, foreign exchange, mergers & acquisition and other advisory, and public finance.
MAG INSIGHTS
View past newsletter articlesNEWS FROM OUR SPONSORS.
Oct 10, 2025
Chargeblast — Chargeblast Helps Merchants Navigate Visa’s VAMP Transition with Free Ratio Analysis and 10-Minute CE3.0 Setup
Oct 9, 2025
TreviPay — TreviPay Powers Walmart Business Pay By Invoice Offering
Oct 9, 2025
ACI Worldwide — Nearly Two-Thirds of Global Retailers Say Payment Method Flexibility Drives Revenue Growth, ACI Worldwide Survey Finds
Oct 8, 2025
Spreedly — 2025 State of Checkout Report
Oct 6, 2025
U.S. Faster Payments Council — U.S. Faster Payments Council and Accredited Standards Committee X9 Form Strategic Alliance to Advance Faster Payments Standards
Oct 3, 2025
Tender Retail — Tender Retail Celebrates 40 Years of Innovation and Leadership in Payment Solutions
Oct 2, 2025
Boost Payment Solutions — Boost Intercept® drives major operational efficiency and seven-figure savings at Ferguson
Oct 2, 2025
PAX Technology, Inc. — PAX Technology Inc. Announces the Return of PAXCON: The Premier Event for Payment Innovators
Sep 18, 2025
Sift — Account Takeover Attacks Surge 122% in Fintech as Agentic Commerce Adoption Looms
Sep 18, 2025
Basis Theory — Basis Theory Forms Agentic Commerce Consortium, Publishes White Paper Setting Standards for Agentic Commerce
Sep 17, 2025
TreviPay — TreviPay Powers Walmart Business Pay By Invoice Offering
Sep 16, 2025
Accertify, Inc. — Accertify Now Offers Easy Integration for Shopify and Salesforce Commerce Cloud Merchants
Sep 16, 2025
Optimized Payments, Inc. — Capital One × Discover: What the Debit Migration Means for Merchants
Sep 16, 2025