26th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum lands in Austin on 10 November 2026

The 26th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum is set for 10 November 2026 at the W Hotel in Austin, Texas, bringing together banking, payments, fintech, digital assets and RegTech executives. For high-risk PSPs, the useful part is the mix of fraud, compliance, real-time payments, open banking and tokenised money on the agenda.

1. The forum is presented as one of the leading Payments, Compliance and Financial Crime events in the USA, and also as a leading RegTech conference in the USA and a key payments summit in Texas. That positioning matters because the attendee mix is not just payments people talking to payments people; it includes senior voices from banking, fintech, payments infrastructure, digital assets and Regulatory Technology.
2. More than 40 industry specialists are scheduled to speak, with organisations named across card issuing, acquiring, PSPs and bank payments teams: Visa, PayPal, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Charles Schwab, Truist, PNC, Regions Bank, Western Alliance Bank, Texas Capital, Third Coast Bank, Everbank, OneMain Financial, Ripple, Wise, Global Payments, Paysend, IXOPAY, Yuno, Onafriq, Fluz, Splunk, Alacriti, Ouro, VelaFi, BIGTXN, Howden, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, American Bankers Association, FDATA, Georgia Fintech Academy, PayTech Women, Finopotamus, Roosevelt Institute and BetterBuyDesign.
3. The announced discussion topics are the ones that tend to decide whether a payments stack survives scrutiny: real-time payments, fraud prevention, agentic commerce, open banking and tokenised money. In practice, that is the shortlist most PSPs, banks and compliance teams care about when they are deciding which rails to support and which controls to tighten.
4. Among the named speakers are Anil Kumar of Visa, Anthony Kuyoro of PayPal, Chris B Kennedy of Regions Bank, Christine Cooper of Ripple, Elizabeth Davidson of PNC, Haider Mannan of BIGTXN, Harsh Dev of PayPal, Hema Zutshi of Visa, Jairo Riveros of Paysend, Jason Jerina of Truist, Jo Davenport of Third Coast Bank and Jason C. Honeycutt of Ouro. The presence of compliance, fraud and product leaders alongside bank operators suggests the forum is built around implementation detail rather than generic industry cheerleading.
5. The event is sponsored by Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Splunk and UMCA Technologies. For the audience that buys screening, fraud and monitoring tooling, that is a useful signal about where the conversation is likely to land: controls, data and operational risk, not just payment flow marketing.

The forum takes place at the W Hotel in Austin on 10 November 2026, which makes it a US-market meeting rather than a broad global one. That matters for readers mapping US payments policy, bank partner conversations and the compliance standards that shape high-risk merchant acceptance.