Session Tracks

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Smarter Faster Payments sessions are positioned under these payments tracks. Review sessions listed under each track.

ACH

The ACH Network continues to evolve to support innovation and emerging business models and opportunities. Uniquely ubiquitous, the ACH Network is instrumental to moving the payments space forward while balancing new ways of doing business with sound risk management and a reach that delivers game-changing impact. These sessions focus on increasing awareness about the most critical ACH-related topics necessary to operate today and compete tomorrow.

Topics include: ACH and ACH Rules topics, non-risk-related Nacha initiatives, including audit and Same Day ACH

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Sessions under this track:

  • Breaking Silos: Aligning Vendor Onboarding with ACH & Fraud Prevention Goals
  • Fraud in the Fast Lane: Defending ACH and Merchant Payments in Real Time
  • Implementing Nacha's Fraud Monitoring Rule
  • Mastering the Nacha Operating Rules: Uncovering Nuances and Ensuring ACH Compliance
  • Modernizing Treasury's Business Processes Using ERS
  • Reimagining ACH Payment Flows for Today's Instant Economy
  • The Pulse of Payments: ACH's Role in Powering the U.S. Economy

AI-Driven Innovations and Strategies

This track explores cutting-edge applications of AI in payment systems, uncovering how machine learning, automation, and advanced analytics are revolutionizing financial transactions. this track offers a comprehensive look at how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of payments. Engage with case studies, participate in interactive discussions, and explore practical solutions to harness the power of AI.

Topics include: AI-powered fraud detection, personalized financial services, and the seamless integration of AI into existing payment infrastructures, how AI is enhancing security, improving customer experiences, and driving efficiencies.

Sessions under this track:

  • Agentic Commerce Is Here - Are Disputes Soon to Follow?
  • AI in Action: Unlocking the Future of Payments Operations
  • Build Better Banking [Experiences] Through Embedded Intelligence
  • Harnessing AI for Fraud Prevention in Payments Industry
  • How AI Is Transforming Compliance and Oversight
  • Is AI Friend or Foe to Fraud Fighters?
  • Reimagining ACH: Scalable Cloud Transformation with AI-Driven Intelligence
  • The Game-changing Influence of AI on Payments
  • Using AI & Positive Pay to Defend Your Clients
  • Using AI to Unlock Treasury Services and Instant Payments

Compliance & Regulatory

Rules and regulations are the bedrock of financial services and payments, and provide the necessary surety for transactions. Although often viewed simply as an area of compliance, developments here also encompass innovation, transaction quality, opportunity and financial reward. Understanding the most crucial concepts and innovations will lead to positive, competitive results.

Topics include: regulatory changes, legal-focused topics, legislative changes and activities in response to pandemic and emergency planning.

Sessions under this track:

  • Benchmarking Open Banking Reforms Around the World
  • Inside the Hill: Legislative Momentum and the ACH Network
  • What Financial Institutions Must Know About Digital and Instant Government Payments

Cybersecurity & Risk

As payment and operating systems evolve, new threats and risks are introduced nearly as quickly. Staying a step ahead of those interlopers or fraudsters is key to mitigating loss of revenue, reputation and customer relationships. Sessions focus on emerging threats and ways to recognize risks to prevent loss, as well as provide the necessary surety for transactions.

Topics include: general risk, third parties, fraud, risk mitigation techniques, cross-channel risk

Sessions under this track:

  • Combatting Fraud and Scams in the Age of Digital Payments
  • First Party Fraud: A Victimless Crime?
  • From Crisis to Control: Guiding Clients Through Fraud Attacks
  • How DDA Tokenization Protects FIs and Empowers Consumers in the Era of Open Banking
  • How Technology Innovations Are Combatting Fraud
  • Improving Fraud Risk Management with Account Validation
  • Payments Professionals Get Scammed, Too.
  • Quantum Advantage or Quantum Apocalypse? Preparing Payments for the Coming Shift
  • Spotlight Session: Navigating the New Frontiers of Cybersecurity

Disruptive Ideas & Technologies

New technologies, infrastructures, opportunities and threats, value chain democratization and the redefinition of the way parties interact and transact is portending a future quite different from today. There will be winners and losers. These sessions focus on the topics that threaten to disrupt the status quo, elicit controversy, and provoke debate in the industry.

Topics include: artificial intelligence, blockchain, distributed ledgers, APIs, augmented reality, IoT, machine learning, voice response and robotics, and digital identity, APIs enabling data and information exchange, A/R and A/P reconciliation, and ISO 20022 and other standards

Sessions under this track:

  • AI & Stablecoins: A Primer
  • Decentralized, Not Disconnected: Sharing Fraud Intelligence
  • Demystifying Digital Assets in the Real World
  • Embedded Finance Meets Real-Time Liquidity: Reshaping Payments Infrastructure
  • Examining How FIs Rate Their Ability to Thrive and Compete
  • From Rails to Results: Igniting Innovation in U.S. Real-Time Payments
  • Open Banking Access: To Charge or Not to Charge: That is the Data Access Question
  • Open Banking at a Crossroads: Legal Realities and Regulatory Futures
  • Ripped From The Headlines! Hot Takes On Hot Topics In Payments
  • Streamlining Receivables Processes with AI & ML

Faster Payments Experience

With enhanced capabilities implemented to existing platforms and the introduction of new rails, faster payments is gaining adoption. Encompassing sessions and solutions that focus on same-day, immediate, and other faster payments initiatives, the Faster Payments Experience spans the breadth of the conference program, providing attendees with a complete and unparalleled examination of the rapidly emerging faster payments landscape. 

Topics include: faster payments capabilities, enhancements, use cases and platforms

Sessions under this track:

  • Digital Natives Are Rewriting the Rules of B2B Payments
  • Driving Innovation with APIs
  • Executive Session: Building a Compelling Instant Payments Business Proposal for Your Board
  • Executive Session: The Transformative Journey Towards Instant Payments
  • Fintechs and Corporate Opportunities Using Faster Payments
  • How Alternative Payment Rails are Leveraging Innovation to Stay Ahead
  • How Real-Time Payments are Transforming the Payments Ecosystem
  • Instant Payment Adoption: Case Study Success Stories
  • It is Better to Give (Send) than Receive
  • Laying the Groundwork for Open Banking Success
  • Managing Liquidity and Working Capital in the World of Faster Payments
  • Optimizing Payment Choice to Drive Customer Satisfaction
  • Re-imagining the Customer Experience Using Text to Pay
  • Spotlight Session: Payments Innovation Trends Driving B2B Transactions
  • Strategies to Prevent Fraud in Instant Transactions
  • Wires vs RTP: Choosing the Right Rail for the Right Transaction

Legal Considerations in Payments

Understanding the intricacies of legal issues in payments to enhance your strategic approach to compliance and security is critical in today’s complex legal landscape as agreements, fraud, and data privacy laws are enacted (or rescinded). Sessions focus on the latest legal challenges and solutions in payments, including cross-border transactions and emerging technologies. 

Topics include: legal decisions, pending litigation, privacy, state and federal laws. All sessions in this track are eligible for CLE credits

Sessions under this track:

  • Bank-Fintech Relationships: A Legal Perspective on Maximizing Opportunities While Managing the Risks
  • FTC Investigations and Enforcement of Payments: What FIs and Fintechs Need to Know
  • Interplay of EU & US Payment Laws and Regulations
  • Legal Considerations for Open Finance and Data Rights
  • Recent Developments in Electronic Payments Law
  • Security Procedures and the UCC in a Changing Landscape
  • Understanding the Legal Implications of Payments Settlement

Payments in Practice

Sessions in this track go beyond the abstract while exploring proven results and solutions for payment participants. Use cases, success stories and proven results inspire the creation of ideas and offerings while exploring new ways to put payments in practice. 

Topics include: case studies, use cases and lessons learned, completed implementation of products, services and ideas, proven ideas and solutions

Sessions under this track:

  • Achieving ACH Operational Compliance: Keys to Building a Strong Compliance Program
  • Blackout-Proof: Engineering Cross-Rail Resiliency
  • Corporates & Fis: There is More That Unites Us Than Divides Us
  • Driving Growth in Instant Payments by Adding Send
  • Executive Series: The New Currency of Loyalty: Rethinking FX
  • Futureproofing Payments: Staying Resilient in a World That Doesn't Pause
  • How Corporates Are Winning with Instant Payments
  • Instant Payments ? Instant Readiness: What to Know Before You Launch
  • Instant Payments vs. Cards: Compete, Complement, or Converge?
  • ISO 20022 Adoption: Transforming Compliance into Competitive Advantage
  • Leveling the Rails: Building a Liability Framework for Pay by Bank
  • Mastering Your B2C Payout Strategy
  • Maximizing Your ISO 20022 Investment Through Use of Enhanced Data
  • Multi-Rail Strategies for Modernizing Corporate Payments
  • Turning Fraud Monitoring Rules into A Strategic Advantage
  • Using Connected Payments to Simplify Accounts Receivables Reconciliation
     

Practical Strategies

Sessions in this track focus on topics related to organizational goals, sound business practices, systems modernization, payments convergence and implementation planning for products, services and processes.

Topics include: research results and future approaches to evolving workplace and industry needs, and the impact of pandemics and natural disasters on business continuity plans

Sessions under this track:

  • Beyond APIs: The Strategic Value of Data Out in Open Finance
  • Executive Session: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Payment Ops Team
  • From FinTech Innovator to Bank-ish FinTech Pioneer
  • How Fraudsters Exploit the Gaps You Don't See
  • Modern Commercial Banking, Powered by Partnership
  • Practical AI Adoption: Hands-On Strategies for Financial Institutions
  • Spotlight Session: A Collaborative Vision of Customer Experience for the Future
  • Spotlight Session: Ensuring Business Continuity with Emerging Payments
  • Strengthening Cyber Hygiene Through Human-Centered Strategies
  • The Payment Security Playbook: Build Your Strategy, Live

Smarter Payments Experience

New smart technologies and tools are enabling financial institutions, fintechs and other providers to leverage rich information within and surrounding a payment throughout the end-to-end process. These capabilities instill greater intelligence that enhances decision-making and awareness, informs choices and actions, removes friction, strengthens security and confidence, and adds value. The Smarter Payments Experience spans the breadth of the conference program, providing attendees with a complete and unparalleled examination of smarter payment capabilities and solutions and how they benefit customers.

Topics include: smarter payment capabilities and platforms, including omnichannel, NFC payments, technical solutions, interoperability among platforms, APIs enabling payments, ISO 20022 use cases, artificial intelligence, machine learning

Sessions under this track:

  • 360 Degrees of BillPay: Current and Future Strategies for Effective Deployment
  • Accelerating Refunds: Leveraging Electronic Payments for a Better Customer Experience
  • Aligning Strategy Across the Payments Ecosystem
  • Faster Funding is the Future: Request for Payment?& Real?Time Payroll
  • Generations of Change: How Payments Past Shape the Future
  • Invisible but Everywhere: The Future of Commerce
  • Is the Future of Open Banking Going to Find Just Closed Doors?
  • Making the Case for Pay by Bank: One-time v. Recurring Payments
  • Smarter AND Faster: Real-Time Payments Meet Intelligent Design
  • Time to Start Reaping Returns on ISO 20022 Investments
  • Transaction Tagging for the Pay by Bank Evolution
  • Turning Payments Modernization into a Strategic Advantage for Mid-Tier Financial Institutions

Stablecoin Strategies

Sessions in this track provide an exploration of stablecoins and their growing impact on the payments ecosystem. Real-world use cases from cross-border payments and merchant adoption to financial inclusion and treasury operations, highlight the practical applications and transformative potential of stablecoins.

Topics include: legislative developments, evolving regulations and issuer requirements, compliance frameworks, supervisory oversight, technological advancements driving stablecoin innovation, risk management strategies around liquidity, cybersecurity, and consumer protection

Sessions under this track:

  • Financial Institutions and FinTechs: A New Wave of Financial Technology Powered by Stablecoin
  • How Financial Institutions Can Lead the Next Chapter in Digital Money
  • Market Developments in Stablecoins and What They Mean for the Payments Industry
  • Powering the Future of Instant, Transparent Payments
  • Stablecoins at the Crossroads: Innovation, Regulation, and the Role of Financial Institutions
  • Stablecoins: Catalyst or Catastrophe for our Entire Financial System?
  • The Legal and Compliance Landscape of Stablecoins
  • The Stablecoin Shift: What It Means for Money, Movement, and the Future of Payments
  • What Stablecoins Mean for the Future of Real-Time Payments

Kick-Start Sessions

Begin your attendee experience on day one with thought leadership sessions brought to you by organizations leading in the payments space.