Payments events still ahead in 2026

Summary

Stablecoins, fraud prevention and artificial intelligence have been hot topics at this year’s payments industry conferences. There’s more to come.

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• Rhode Island enacts self-checkout law
• Repay attracts new $1.4B bid
• Amazon settles FTC card fraud case
• Klarna wins $2B Google antitrust case
• Card networks, banks, fintechs partner on ‘low-cost’ stablecoin
• Ramp elevates CTO to co-CEO