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  • Conference Whispers : Global Gaming Expo 2026

    Conference Whispers : Global Gaming Expo 2026

    ABSTRACT

    “G2E 2026 brought gaming, technology, and regulatory professionals to Las Vegas. Exhibitors showcased solutions spanning payments, currency authentication, identity verification, compliance, cybersecurity, customer data, and hospitality operations. TBW Advisors focused on fintech, fraud prevention, and identity technologies, exploring how highly regulated, performance-sensitive environments manage financial transactions, customer trust, security, and operational complexity.”

    The Conference

    • A community of professionals who work in and serve the gaming Global Gaming Expo 2026. The event hosted over 400 exhibitors and 100 educational sessions. 

    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

    Verifying currency is not fraudulent is always a challenge with the naked eye especially in the age of AI. In the world of casinos, chips are currency. Dealers must be confident when accepting currency that it is authentic As such, ensuring chips cannot be duplicated and yet still be verified authentic by a human immediately is a requirement. Nevada Gaming Chip creates very special chips. They feature 3D holographic security with ‘ghosting’ that can’t be photographed, reprinted, or duplicated.  

    Casinos attract a global customer base and that means their cash cages must deal with all types of global payment options. Beyond Bancard offers payment solutions for US and international markets for pay-ins and payouts. In addition to fiat currency (government issued currency) their platform handles crypto, stablecoins, and land-based cashless gaming.  

    Identity is their specialty at LexisNexis. Aggregating deep, cross-industry data enables a few unique offerings. For example, for day-one risk assessment they offer 44-45% device recognition rate across their consortium. If stopping fake IDs is your pain spot, IDScan.net scans 20 million IDs per month. Types of IDs they scan include physical, digital and mobile formats via SDKs/APIs. Their specialty is providing rapid live human support and custom parsing of new ID types if required. jumio (always in lower case letters), that stands for just use my ID online, offers global identity verification supporting over 4,000 document types. They aim to minimize customer onboarding friction. Furthermore, their solution goes beyond onboarding and also continuously monitors the user and identity over the lifecycle. This monitoring enables alerting for changes that could represent an account takeover.

    If you have been following TBW Advisors for a while, you know we specialize in highly regulated, performance-sensitive applications and environments. Advanced Compliance Technology known as ACT  shared their offer of a total compliance platform. One of the first requirements in such environments is a very strong and extensive compliance solution commonly referred to as KYC (know your customer). It entails identity, due diligence on the customer, and risk assessment. The risk assessment spans AML or anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, or any other type of financial crime. ACT’s platform combines biometric KYC across 250 countries. Their real-time integrity monitoring analyzes 700 sportsbook, thousands of events/athletes and over 35 million data points powered by AI and ML (machine learning).

    Cybersecurity was a popular topic at G2E. Zafran was in expo hall featuring their exposure management platform. Leveraging the Continuous Threat Exposure Management framework or CTEM, their focus is to enable action on vulnerabilities that are exploitable. By removing alerts for vulnerabilities that are not exploitable, their platform enables users to focus on where they can have an impact. Specializing in casinos and iGaming, AccessIT Group shared that they are ASV and QSA certified for PCI compliance and regulatory audits across 30 legalized states.

    Resorts are complex operations compared to hotels involving many different forms of customer interactions and experiences. Take those resorts and add on a casino and it is a complex operation. Cendyn featured their end-to-end hospitality platform, which includes an in-house CRM (customer relationship management) and CDP (customer data platform).

    Inspired creates interactive games that are globally distributed. Recognized as a leader for virtual sports, customers include DraftKings, FanDuel, and BetMGM.

    Conference Vibe

    Global Gaming Expo, also known as G2E, brought together enterprise professionals across the gaming and regulation space as well as vendors serving their sector. In essence, G2E is where casinos shop. Vendor diversity includes anything from lawyers and accountants, designers, hardware manufacturers. There was even an auto dealer with their high-capacity vehicle to move a machine around properties. Technologies included those enabling marketing, customer retention, customer relationship management, equipment manufacturing. At TBW Advisors this year, we focused heavily on the fintech and security technology. Secifically, we went in deep on anti-fraud, cybersecurity, and identity technology.

    While there were crowds, registration did not seem to have lines. Attendees could eat at all the standard Venetian eateries including Cafe Presse and Venetian Bistro. Enjoy the walkabout to and through expo hall. We always try to bring you fresh vendors in our coverage but you will recognize many brands in the walkabout from our coverage of other fintech events such as the Money 20/20, or our coverage of Fintech Meet-up. Likewise in the cybersecurity and anti-fraud space you will recognize vendors from our coverage of ISC West and Black Hat USA 2026.

    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 additional forthcoming Whisper Reports. 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.

    1. Whisper Report: What can other industries learn from casinos?
    2. Whisper Report: Where is AI already useful in fraud prevention?
    3.  Whisper Report: What patterns give fraud away?
    4. Whisper Report: What makes identity checks fast and accurate?
    5. Whisper Report: Where is cashless actually working?
    6. Whisper Report: What does 24/7 uptime require that people miss?
    7. Whisper Report: What do customers ask for that surprises you?
    8. Whisper Report: What’s the most overrated thing in security tech?

    Readers and viewers wishing to experience the entire event are encouraged to view the Conference Whispers: G2E 2026 Playlist in its entirety. The playlist will be cited in the end screen, description, and as a pinned comment of the video edition.

    The video edition will conclude with gratitude towards those that contributed and a montage of responses to Bonus Question, “What’s the best part about attending G2E 2026 live in Las Vegas?”.

    Next Year’s Conference  

    The G2E will once again return to Las Vegas and will be held at the Venetian Expo September 27-September 30, 2027.

    *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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  • Conference Whispers: Fintech Meetup 2026

    Conference Whispers: Fintech Meetup 2026

    Las Vegas, NV March 30 – April 1

    Published:  April 4, 2026                                                      ID: TBW2170

    Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli

    Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli

    Abstract

    Fintech Meetup 2026 in Las Vegas filled the show floor with live discussions between banks, fintechs, and platform providers. Demonstrations clustered around fraud controls, identity and onboarding, data context, lending infrastructure, payments flow, and applied AI. Across booths, emphasis shifted from point tools toward systems designed for scale, speed, and operational continuity.

    Stay tuned for future coverage on Computer Talk Radio

    The Conference

    • Fintech Meetup featured over 50,000 meetings, with over 1,000 CEO’s and Founders, and over 700 Financial institutions

    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.
    • To fully enjoy this event, be sure to meet the deadlines for filling out your profile, requesting and accepting meetings. One should also pre-register for the table talks.

    Fraud and Trust

    Fintech is not a simple space to secure. Security isn’t a single tool but rather it’s a system. That system starts before money moves and ensures the sender and the receiver of the transaction are known. Deploying separate technologies to manage fraud, compliance, and risk in your organization?  Sardine AI likes to pack all that functionality into one tidy platform to stop fraud BEFORE the payment is made.

    While most Financial Crime investigation tools only see and investigate the tip of the iceberg, Unit21.ai would like to change that. Garnering the most attention are high risk alerts which the most sophisticated criminal organizations know how to avoid triggering. This leaves many Financial Crimes such as human trafficking undetected. But what if you had unlimited trained agents to investigate? By leveraging agentic AI, Unit21.ai enables an organization to conduct an in-depth review of every single alert. No hiring backlogs. Just results.

    Growth in Fintech often means getting additional clients. Such growth comes with risks. Is this new client really who they say they are? Getting this wrong is very, very, expensive. Sumsub would like to simplify this risky onboarding task. Their unified solution combines identity verification and fraud prevention. Enabling quicker decisions without increasing the risk profile. This opens the door to growth, in real-time.

    Identity & Intelligence

    Enabling frictionless, seamless access, Alcatraz is a vendor in the identity and access space and the physical cyber space. Knowing your customer and knowing your business or KYC and KYB are risk areas that get a lot of attention. To conquer this space, Alcatraz leverages facial authentication to ensure security without compromising privacy.

    Banking and Fintech, like many industries, still suffer from siloed data. While identity creates signals, data gives those signals context for action. Real-time precision is a constant requirement. tacnode shared their unified data platform to provide a single source of truth. This next-generation data infrastructure platform provides a common context for your heterogeneous regulated data environment.

    Effectively applying metacognition with a GPT over all customers channels for the benefit of the organization in a unified brain has arrived. Meet BankGPT by interface.ai. BankGPT enables lessons learned on customer voice interactions to improve interactions on chats or mobile applications. Whether you are seeking an employee co-pilot or a smart collections AI agent, interface.ai supports 148 languages.

    Financial Stack

    The credit lifecycle is critical to Financial Institutions. From lead generation to evaluation and credit decisioning or simply educating lenders, CRS Credit API offers a comprehensive solution. Their platform covers the entire lifecycle for business-to-business or direct-to-consumer. They were also excited to share their new authentication and evaluation products with attendees.

    LendAPI introduced their holistic ecosystem enabling comprehensive functionality spanning loan origination, loan management, and loan core. This compliance-ready solution provides all-in-one features enabling all the tools including consumer communication.

    Placing its differentiation on its order of operations, World Connection Outsourcers focuses on using AI to ensure first contact resolution. They prioritize AI, then journey mapping, the outsourcing. From their perspective, this enables the right answers at the right time.

    Payments & Velocity

    If your desired platform would be to unite the entire payment stack in one place, Sokin heard your request. Sokin handles cross-border payments, FX, treasury management, and checkout solutions. Not stopping there, on and off-ramps for Stablecoin to USDT and USDC are now also available.

    Conference Vibe

    After 48 videos and over a dozen and a half fact checks, our coverage of Fintech Meetup 2026 closes. Fintech Meetup featured over 50,000 meetings, with over 1,000 CEOs and founders, and over 700 Financial institutions.

    Registration was quite efficient. Pastries and snacks were scattered throughout expo hall. Mandalay Bay Food Court was also open. Enjoy the walkabout to and through expo hall*. One of the most unique aspects of Fintech Meetup is the networking! Beyond the talks and expo hall, Fintech Meetup is known for their one-on-one meeting schedules. Attendees must be on the look out to fill out their profile, request meetings, and accept meetings in order to participate. In addition, this event holds round tables break out rooms ensuring a true capability to build your network while you are there.

    We always try to bring you fresh vendors in our coverage but you will recognize many brands in the walkabout from our coverage of other Fintech events such as the Money 20/20 USA 2025, or our coverage of Fintech Meet-up both in 2025 and in 2024. Likewise in the cybersecurity and anti-fraud space you will recognize vendors from our coverage of ISC West, Identiverse, and Black Hat USA 2025.

    We conducted research for six additional 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.

    1. Whisper Report: What fintech problem are you solving in 2026?

    2. Whisper Report: How are you using AI to improve Financial Services?

    3. Whisper Report: What fraud risk are you tackling this year?

    4. Whisper Report: How are you advancing real‑time payments?

    5. Whisper Report: How are you improving lending decisions?

    6. Whisper Report: What digital‑asset tech are you building now?

    Readers and viewers wishing to experience the entire event are encouraged to view the Conference Whispers: Fintech Meetup 2026 Playlist in its entirety. The playlist will be sited in the end screen, description, and as a pinned comment of the video edition. Be sure to monitor the syndicated broadcast of Computer Talk Radio for additional coverage of Fintech Meetup. All related syndicated links will be shared in the Whispers membership area of our channel.

    The video edition will conclude with gratitude towards those that contributed and a montage of responses to Bonus Question “What’s the best part about attending the Fintech Meetup live in Las Vegas?”.

    Next Year’s Conference  

    *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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