https://fintechsdispatch.com FintechsDispatch covers payments, embedded finance, banking infrastructure, regtech and the companies building them, with conference reporting from the events where the industry meets. en Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:03:56 GMT https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/fintech-conference-circuit-mapped/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/fintech-conference-circuit-mapped/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk There is no single fintech conference. There are six archetypes, each optimised for a different outcome, and most complaints about the circuit are really complaints about attending the wrong archetype. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/case-for-and-against-the-mega-conference/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/case-for-and-against-the-mega-conference/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk The large commercial fintech event is the most criticised institution in the industry and one of the most useful. Both positions are correct, and they are about different parts of the same three days. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/iso-20022-richer-payment-messages/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/iso-20022-richer-payment-messages/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Payments infrastructure Richer, structured payment data is the largest change to bank messaging in a generation. The migration is less about format than about everything downstream of it. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/who-pays-for-a-fintech-conference/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/who-pays-for-a-fintech-conference/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk Follow the revenue and the agenda stops being mysterious. Sponsorship funds an event that ticket sales could not, and it also shapes what gets said on the stage it paid for. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/who-holds-the-risk-embedded-finance/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/who-holds-the-risk-embedded-finance/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Embedded finance Every embedded product has a licensed institution somewhere underneath it. Knowing where the regulatory perimeter sits explains most of what happens when a partnership goes wrong. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/the-corridor-is-the-conference/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/the-corridor-is-the-conference/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk Everyone says the real value is in the hallway. Almost nobody plans for it, and organisers who design for it produce better events than those who fill every hour. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/stablecoin-settlement-operational-questions/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/stablecoin-settlement-operational-questions/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Digital assets The argument for token-based settlement is straightforward. The operational work of running treasury on it is where the interesting engineering sits. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/interchange-economics-explained/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/interchange-economics-explained/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Payments Every card payment splits a fee between four or five parties. Understanding the split explains most of the industry's product decisions and most of its regulatory fights. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/why-kyc-onboarding-takes-days/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/why-kyc-onboarding-takes-days/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Regtech Consumer onboarding compressed into minutes. Business onboarding did not, and the reason is structural rather than technological. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/reading-a-conference-agenda/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/reading-a-conference-agenda/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk A published agenda tells you what an event is really about, if you read it for structure rather than for names. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/regulators-on-stage/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/regulators-on-stage/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk Supervisory speakers are the highest-signal item on most agendas, and the most widely misread. What they say in public is deliberate; what the audience hears is usually something else. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/demo-theatre-what-stage-demos-prove/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/demo-theatre-what-stage-demos-prove/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk The timed live demo is the most honest format on the circuit and the most over-read. It proves a narrow, real thing, and buyers routinely extend it to cover eighteen months of implementation risk. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/what-organisers-get-wrong-about-press/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/what-organisers-get-wrong-about-press/ Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk Most press programmes are built for coverage volume. The ones that produce coverage worth having are built for access, and the difference costs an organiser almost nothing. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/las-vegas-diaries-robots-spritz-and/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/las-vegas-diaries-robots-spritz-and/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk Reporting from CES 2026: a show that stopped being about bigger screens and started being about devices that act before you do, including the biometric wallet that pays for your coffee. https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/the-identity-revolution-from-broken/ https://fintechsdispatch.com/articles/the-identity-revolution-from-broken/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Conference desk Reporting from Money20/20 USA: while the main stage sold agentic commerce, the conversation at the booths and roundtables was about an identity architecture that cannot support it.