Las Vegas, NV October 18- October 21
Published to Whisper Club: October 24, 2026 ID: TBW2271
Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli
ABSTRACT
Money 20/20 2026 brought 13,000 fintech innovators to Las Vegas. They addressed AI security, fraud prevention, compliance automation, banking modernization, payment infrastructure, cross-border commerce, foreign exchange, alternative lending and digital assets. From bot defense and regulatory technology to global payments and Web3 wallets, exhibitors showcased technologies reshaping the future of global financial services.
The Conference
- A community of roughly 13,000 fintech professionals gathered for Money 20/20. One in three attendees are in the C-suite roles and hailed from over 85 countries. Attendees and exhibitors include established fintech firms and those that service fintech, founders and their start-ups as well as those that fund fintech start-ups.
- Over 320 members of the press, media and analysts were also on site.
Cautions
- Friendly reminder: this research provides examples of what was shared with us at the event, not an evaluation, validation, or recommendation of the given technology.
Exhibits
In this day of AI agent invasions into one’s workflows, Kasada provides advanced bot management. Features include anti-scraping, and an automated fraud prevention platform for web, mobile apps and APIs. They neutralize reverse engineering through invisible dynamic client-side challenges and zero-risk telemetry defenses. In their experience, this approach enabled them to stop modern AI bots before they execute attacks.
While losing your shopping account to a hacker can be disappointing, for bank accounts it’s an entirely different emergency. Arkose Labs is also focused on bot management. They provide a platform for credential stuffing mitigation and account takeover (ATOs) prevention to financial services sector. Their unique solution involves behavioral risk scoring and interactive challenge-response puzzles. This combination is specifically designed to break the economic ROI of bot attackers. Their solution even has a financial warranty.
Bretton provides an enterprise AI-driven regulatory compliance, risk management and surveillance automation platform. They specialize in automating those time-consuming compliance audits, suspicious activity reports (SARs) and regulatory monitoring activities. Furthermore, their solution even provides full traceability for financial institutions.
Many organizations have their favorite large language models and wish for something specialized just for their industry sector. If your preference is Anthropic and you wish there was something for financial services, meet Praxent. Their specialty? Building compliant AI agent workflows targeting community and national banks and loan underwriting institutions.
Just need outside help? Want to make sure they can scale and move quickly? Meet Synechron that services 10 out of 10 of the largest banks as a global technology transformation partner. Leveraging its proprietary AI/Finlabs accelerator, they help large regulated companies plan, deploy, and run complex regulatory, trading, and cloud systems quickly.
Whether your organization is seeking go-to-market intelligence, corporate contact database, or attempting to properly resolve identity ZoomInfo was there to meet with you. They provide real-time buying intent engines, verified direct-dial contacts and organization charts. This data can directly integrate into your customer relationship management solutions (CRM) and your outreach workflows in general.
If your team is evaluating credit card servicing platforms, add LoanProto your list. LoanPro offers a modern, cloud-first credit card servicing platform built entirely on an open API architecture. The benefits of this architecture including that it is fully customizable, including automated compliance/servicing and a real-time ledger tracking in one unified platform.
Handling over $40B in annualized volume, Silverflow is also in the cloud-native card processing platforms. Their cloud-native solution’s single direct cloud API connections offers unified global transaction data and lower latency to its customers.
Need to connect global digital merchant exchange with consumers across Latin America, Africa and other emerging markets? Meet EBANX. Their cross-border payments specialty is mastering hyper-local emerging market payment methods including Pix, Boleto and local debit. They drive higher transaction authorization rates while reducing fraud declines for global enterprises.
Expanding into South America and concerned about banking fees? Meet ATTRUS. They provide the foreign exchange infrastructure for cross-border B2B payments. Leveraging direct local settlement rails and real-time FX clearing, they are able to eliminate corresponding banking delays and high fees. They all provide real0time FX clearing for instant cross-border treasury movements.
Low interest rates loans may be available but only if you have traditional assets as collateral. We examined this problem in our documentary on “Tokenization to free an Economy”. Byx was on hand with a solution to enable people to get loans based on their salaries. Unlike pay day loans, BYX leverages salary as collateral thereby offering lower interest rates usually associated with other loans.
Seeking a Web3 digital wallet service? Coins.Ph shared their globally licensed crypto exchange specifically aimed at emerging markets. With deep local liquidity rails, their specialty is bridging traditional fiat on/off-ramps and multi-currency cross-border settlements with full regulatory licensing.
Conference Vibe
A gathering of over 13,000 financial services experts were at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas for Money 20/20 2026. One in three attendees are in the C-suite roles and hailed from over 85 countries. Attendees and exhibitors include established fintech firms and those that service fintech, founders and their start-ups as well as those that fund fintech start-ups. Over 320 members of the press, media and analysts were also on site.
Registration was quite efficient with every person being informed in advance of what lane to go to for their badge once arriving onsite. The entire expo hall is organized to feel almost like you are within a community or shopping mall vs a strip mall expo experience. It definitely creates an atmosphere in expo hall. Enjoy the walkabout to and through expo hall. You’ll notice there is even a nice section to each; we were able to catch while lunch was being served. Attendees did report it was every bit as tasted as it looks and smelled.
We always try to bring you fresh vendors in our coverage but you will recognize many brands in the walkabout from our coverage of prior years in 2025 and 2024 as well as other fintech events such as Fintech Meet-up in 2026, 2025 and in 2024. Likewise in the cybersecurity and anti-fraud space you will recognize vendors from our coverage of ISC West and Black Hat USA.
We once again live streamed from on site to share the experience. Be sure to catch coverage in my syndicated segment on the nationally broadcast edition of Computer Talk Radio.
We conducted research for forthcoming Whisper Reports for our clients. The playlists are unlisted but available with the video version to be distributed via YouTube Whisper Club upper tier membership area on our YouTube Channel.
- Whisper Report: Where is AI already useful in payments?
- Whisper Report: What patterns give payment fraud away?
- Whisper Report: What makes identity checks fast and accurate?
- Whisper Report: How do you keep stolen data from being useful?
- Whisper Report: Why do some payments still take days?
- Whisper Report: What makes sending money abroad cheaper and faster?
- Whisper Report: How should a business choose a payments provider?
- Whisper Report: What’s the most overrated thing in fintech?
Readers and viewers wishing to experience the entire event are encouraged to view the Conference Whispers: Money 20/20 2026 Playlist in its entirety. The playlist will be cited in the end screen, description, and as a pinned comment of the video edition.
Next Year’s Conference
The 2027 USA Edition of Money 20/20 will once again return to Las Vegas and Las Vegas Convention Center and Resorts World on October 19-October 21.
*When vendors’ names are shared as examples in this document, it is to provide a concrete example of what was on display at the conference, not an evaluation or recommendation. Evaluation and recommendation of these vendors are beyond the scope of this specific research document. Other examples products in the same category may have also been on display.
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