MoneyLive North America 2026 will take place on September 14 and 15, 2026 at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, bringing together more than 900 industry leaders from the US and Canada to shape the future of banking and payments in North America. The event positions itself at the epicenter of the region’s transformation, a setting where ideas will turn into action and where attendees can pursue high-impact, high-ROI networking.

The agenda will be structured around key themes covering the most critical issues facing banking and payments today, from technological advancement to regulatory change:

• Experience-led banking will explore agentic conversational intelligence, supporting financial wellbeing, and reimagining self-service journeys;
• Smart operations, subtitled AI in action, will address AI-powered software development, engineering control into AI agents, and the future workforce in an AI era;
• The new payments landscape will look at agentic commerce innovation, the commercial opportunities of real-time payments, streamlining corporate payments, and innovation-ready architectures;
• Open data and the API economy will round out the technology-facing themes with sessions on open payments propositions, making open data work for customers, and banking-as-a-service and embedded finance business models;
• Marketing and engagement will examine harnessing generative AI (genAI) for customer acquisition, the next phase of predictive AI for understanding customers, and rethinking marketing altogether in the age of AI;
• Stablecoins and tokenized money will cover the latest stablecoin pilots, streamlining cross-border transactions with distributed ledger technology, and emerging tokenized money business models;
• Fraud, financial crime, and risk will confront vendor concentration risk, keeping pace with payment fraud, and harnessing AI intelligence in cybersecurity and counter-fraud; and
• Next-gen credit strategies will look ahead to embedded SME lending, next-generation cash flow lending, and AI-powered underwriting.