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The payments landscape is moving fast, shaped by AI, identity, regulation, orchestration, and global market expansion. Between now and the MAG Payments Summit – London26 (June 9–10), the Merchant Advisory Group (MAG) is bringing the industry together across webinars, International Meet-Ups, Innovation Spotlights, and global speaking engagements.
Whether you are a merchant, provider, fintech, regulator, or consultant, these upcoming opportunities offer practical insight, peer collaboration, and forward-looking discussion on where payments is heading.
Learn: Data, AI, Identity, and Profitability
MAG’s upcoming webinar series focuses on turning today’s biggest payments themes into measurable outcomes, from agentic commerce, revenue growth and cost control to risk reduction and operational efficiency.
March 17 | 12:00 p.m. CT
5 Ways Merchants are Increasing Profits by Hundreds of Millions
ACI Worldwide takes a data-driven look at how leading global merchants are improving authorization, lowering costs, and driving revenue through orchestration, AI, and payment optimization.
April 21 | 12:00 p.m. CT
From Hype to Measurable Wins – The AI Roadmap for Modern Payment Operations
Join Optimus Fintech as they discuss how AI is delivering real financial impact today, helping merchants detect fee discrepancies, automate reconciliation, monitor transaction data, and recover lost revenue while improving operational visibility.
May 12 | Time TBD
Agentic Commerce in Practice: Merchant-Ready Insights & Real-World Use Cases
Mastercard breaks down the technologies powering agentic commerce and AI agents, from Agent Pay and agent-bound tokens to delegated identity.
May 19 | 12:00 p.m. CT
The Identity Tax: How Broken Signals Inflate Payment Risk, and What to Do About It
AtData looks at how fragmented identity data drives fraud, authorization friction, and rising payment costs, and how strengthening identity intelligence improves performance across the transaction lifecycle.
MAG webinars are open to all unless otherwise noted.
Connect Globally: Merchant Conversations Across Regions
Payments challenges and opportunities are increasingly global. MAG’s International Meet-Ups bring senior merchant leaders together for focused, peer-driven discussion in key markets.
A closed-door discussion on the evolving 2026 regulatory landscape and what it means for UK and multinational merchants navigating policy, innovation, and change. Register here.
Registration opens March 9
An invitation-only gathering focused on cross-border payments strategy, growth, fraud and resilience, and the rapidly evolving payments and regulatory environment in the Middle East and global markets.
Explore What’s Next: Innovation Spotlight
MAG’s Innovation Spotlight is a monthly virtual event that facilitates interactions with industry innovators through active, strategic engagement, creating an environment where merchants can participate in discussions on the evolving payments landscape.
March 10 | Spreedly Presentation on Agents, Orchestration, and Commerce Changes Throughout the Payments Ecosystem
April 14 | Sheeva Presentation on Vehicle-Based Payments & the Future of Commerce
Reach out to carrie.pottorff@merchantadvisorygroup.org for more information.
MAG Representing the Merchant Voice Globally
MAG leaders continue to shape the global payments conversation by bringing the merchant perspective to key industry forums:
- Secure Technology Alliance Identity & Payments Summit (Houston)
Agentic Commerce – Starting to Answer the Questions - European Central Bank Digital Euro Technical Workshop (Frankfurt)
Merchant considerations in the digital Euro product - Wells Fargo Payments/FinTech Symposium (Boston)
Merchant panel on payments strategy and industry direction
These engagements ensure real-world merchant priorities remain central to industry innovation, infrastructure, and policy discussions.
Looking Ahead: MAG Payments Summit – London26
June 9–10 | Convene, 155 Bishopsgate, London
Registration opens March 9
MAG’s London Summit will bring together payments leaders from across the ecosystem for two days of strategic discussion, collaboration, and insight into the forces shaping the future of payments, from AI and identity to regulation, risk, and global growth.
Get Involved: For Providers, FinTechs, and Industry Partners
MAG’s strength comes from collaboration across the payments ecosystem. Service providers, fintechs, consultants, and technology partners play a critical role in advancing innovation, improving the merchant experience, and shaping the future of payments. Through MAG sponsorship, industry partners can engage directly with merchant leaders, contribute expertise, participate in educational programming, and help drive meaningful industry progress.
If your organization is interested in building deeper relationships with merchants and supporting industry advancement, explore MAG sponsorship opportunities: https://www.merchantadvisorygroup.org/join/sponsor
Join us along the way, and we’ll see you in London!