Money20/20 Las Vegas 2026: Side Events, Parties and the Compliance Track

• Money20/20 USA 2026 runs from Sunday 18 to Wednesday 21 October at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The organiser lists 11,000+ attendees from 3,400+ companies, 630+ speakers, and one attendee in three in the C-suite.
• Sunday is a content day: five summits run from 9:00am while the Money Hall show floor stays closed. The floor opens Monday at 9:00am and closes for good at noon on Wednesday.
• The official nights are Sunday Night Live with the Money Awards, Money by Night at OMNIA on Monday (Timbaland is playing a DJ set), and Money Row, the Venetian restaurants Money20/20 takes over every night until 11pm.
• The First Timers reception is on Monday 19 October from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at Yardbird, not on Sunday.
• By our count of the official agenda, 25 sessions carry the Fraud Prevention and Detection tag, and 12 of them run on Sunday. If you work in fraud, identity or compliance, arrive on Saturday.
• We list 62 independent side events, each checked against its host page. Almost all are free and on Luma, 52 need the host's approval, and only 2 of the 60 Luma events ask for a Money20/20 badge.
• On the show floor, treat a vendor's accuracy claim as a hypothesis until it is measured on your own traffic. The questions to ask are in this guide.
• Next year the show moves to the Las Vegas Convention Center and Resorts World, on 18 to 21 October 2027.
• This guide is independent of Money20/20. Facts were checked against the official site and host pages on 9 October 2026, and schedules change, so confirm times in the Money20/20 Connect app.

Money20/20 USA is the annual fintech and payments conference held in Las Vegas. The 2026 edition runs from 18 to 21 October at The Venetian, with content summits on Sunday, the Money Hall show floor from Monday to Wednesday noon, official evening networking and dozens of independent side events hosted by vendors, investors and fintech communities.

When and where is Money20/20 USA 2026?

Money20/20 USA 2026 takes place from Sunday 18 October to Wednesday 21 October 2026 at The Venetian Resort, 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas. The organiser lists 11,000+ attendees from 3,400+ companies and 85+ countries, 630+ speakers, and one attendee in three in the C-suite. It is the US edition of a franchise that also runs in Amsterdam (Europe), Riyadh (Middle East) and Bangkok (Asia), which is why searches for "Money 2020 Las Vegas" and "Money20/20 USA" land on the same event.

Badge pick up runs 8:00am to 8:00pm on Sunday, 7:00am to 7:00pm on Monday, 7:30am to 5:30pm on Tuesday and 8:00am to 11:00am on Wednesday. The official plan-your-trip page also says early collection is possible on Saturday 17 October; your barcode arrives by email from badge@money2020.com a few days before the show and also sits in the Connect app. Bring photo ID. Online name changes close on Saturday 17 October, after which a swap has to be done at the registration desk before the badge is printed.

This is the last year at The Venetian. Money20/20 has announced that the 2027 edition moves to the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) and Resorts World, on 18 to 21 October 2027. We will update this guide for it.

What happens on each day of Money20/20 USA?

Sunday is for the summits, Monday and Tuesday for the floor, and Wednesday ends at noon. That pattern decides when you fly in and which evenings you can commit to.

Sunday 18 October is a content day. Five summits run in the Venetian meeting rooms from 9:00am: Intelligence (Galileo 1001 to 1003), Cybersecurity (Casanova 501 to 504, morning), Blockchain (the same room from 1:15pm), Network Effects (Marco Polo 801 to 803) and Family Office and WealthTech (Marco Polo 705 to 707). Summit seats are first come, first served for any pass holder, and the show floor is closed to attendees. Networking drinks start at 4:00pm at the Exchange Stage, followed at 5:00pm by Sunday Night Live and the Money Awards.

Monday 19 October is the first floor day and the busiest evening. The Money Hall opens at 9:00am. The First Timers reception runs from 4:30pm, the international delegates and sponsors reception at Chica from 8:00pm, and Money by Night at OMNIA from 8:30pm to 11:30pm.

Tuesday 20 October is the second full floor day. It opens with the Money20/20 Women in Fintech Breakfast at Chica at 8:30am, carries the regulator session from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) at 10:00am, and ends the official daytime programme with a Money20/20 happy hour at 4:00pm. Apart from Money Row, Tuesday evening belongs to the side events.

Wednesday 21 October is a half day. The floor closes at 12:00pm, and most people are at the airport by mid afternoon. If you need a meeting with someone, do not leave it to Wednesday.

What are the official Money20/20 parties and networking events?

Money20/20 calls its evening programme Industry Nights. The Standard pass, and the discounted passes built on it, include the official networking events, and Platinum adds VIP access. Your badge is the ticket, though the International Delegates and Sponsors Reception is aimed at those two groups and the First Timers reception asks for an RSVP in the app.

Money by Night at OMNIA is the official party, and this year Timbaland is playing a DJ set; entry is for 2026 attendees only. Money Row is the most useful for work: Money20/20 takes over the Venetian's row of restaurants (Milos is new for 2026) with complimentary food and drink through the day and into the evening, so you can book a dinner-length meeting without leaving the building.

One date to double check: the July attendee brochure put the First Timers session on Sunday at midday, and some guides still say so. Both current official pages list it on Monday from 4:30pm at Yardbird. To RSVP, search "First Timer" in the Connect app.

Which Money20/20 side events are worth your evening?

We list 62 side events below: 14 picks for compliance, fraud and identity teams, then 48 more by day. Ten are open registration, one is paid (USD 149), and the rest need the host's approval, so the earlier you apply, the better your odds. Expect a screening question about your role and company, and expect the address of many dinners to be shared only after approval. We checked every event against its host page on 9 October 2026. Of the 60 Luma listings, only Persona's two events ask you to bring a Money20/20 badge; Brico's compliance AMA and the Speed Vegas outing say none is needed, and the rest do not mention one. Times are Pacific. "Approval" means the host screens each registration, "Open" means you register without approval, and "Request" means an invitation-only event that takes requests.

Our picks for compliance, fraud and identity teams

• Sunday 18, 12:00pm to 5:00pm: TWIF Stablecoin Day with Chainalysis, Persona, Alcove Wallet and Meld, at Mercato della Pescheria. Approval.
• Sunday 18, 5:30pm to 9:00pm: Uncharted waters, trusted transfers with Persona, Crossmint, Mastercard, OpenFX and Circle, at Caspian's Rock and Roe. Open, 21 and over, bring your Money20/20 badge.
• Sunday 18, 6:30pm to 9:30pm: TWIF x SEON Fraud and Risk Leaders Welcome Dinner, aimed at fraud, risk and compliance leaders. Approval, venue shared after approval.
• Sunday 18, 7:00pm to 9:00pm: Socure Intelligence Community, a tasting evening with LoanPro for 35 executives in a private room at Chica. Request.
• Sunday 18, 8:30pm to 10:30pm: Executive Banking Dinner with Oscilar, Kaufman Rossin and SentiLink, at Delmonico Steakhouse. Approval.
• Monday 19, 9:00am to 11:00am: Rethinking Fraud in the Age of AI, an Oscilar and Mastercard breakfast at Canaletto. Approval.
• Monday 19, 5:00pm to 7:00pm: Behind the Signals, an evening with Socure and Baselayer at Sala 118 in The Venetian. Open.
• Monday 19, 6:00pm to 9:00pm: Olive Noir, Socure's crypto dinner. Approval.
• Tuesday 20, 7:00am to 10:00am: Chainalysis wellness and networking at Canyon Ranch Spa. Approval.
• Tuesday 20, 8:30am to 10:30am: The Wake-Up Series: Stablecoins as the Future of Payments with Rain, Galaxy and Sardine. Approval.
• Tuesday 20, 12:00pm to 6:00pm: Merkle Science Meet: Enterprise Compliance for Digital Assets at Caesars Palace. Approval.
• Tuesday 20, 1:00pm to 3:00pm: Donuts plus Licensing and Compliance AMA on money transmitter licences, at Donutique in the Grand Canal Shoppes. Approval, no Money20/20 badge needed.
• Tuesday 20, 5:00pm to 7:00pm: Golden Hour: Verified, Persona's happy hour at Bazaar Meat. Approval, 21 and over, bring your Money20/20 badge.
• Tuesday 20, 8:00pm to 10:00pm: Taktile happy hour at Mercato della Pescheria. Approval.

Sunday 18 October

RSVP pages for Sunday: Fintech Takes The Court, Golf Classic, Banker Led Forum, The Great Wealth Transfer, Atomic Supper Club, Digital Assets wine tasting, TWIF x Mercor, Venture After Dark.

Monday 19 October

RSVP pages for Monday: Slow 3K and Coffee, Strativ Run Club, Stripe Startups Breakfast Club, Morning Aperitivo with Unit, TabaPay luncheon, Poolside Lunch, Ethereum Stablecoin Summit, Fine-Tuning Fintech, Stablecoin Speakeasy, The Onchain Hour, Bank Leaders and Deposit Innovators, TOAST with Stripe, Sundown at TAO Beach, CryptoMondays Vegas, TWIF and Checker, Lavo Lounge, Flight Club with Rain, Stable Salon, COLUMN Party.

Tuesday 20 October

RSVP pages for Tuesday: Walk and Run, Stripe Running Club, Morning Miles, Mastercard Fintech Breakfast, Clocktower x Splitwise, Finish Line Social, Mastercard x BVNK breakfast, AI and the Enterprise Breakfast, Women in Fintech Lunch, Fintech Marketing Happy Hour, Poolside Refresher, Speed Vegas, Astra and Visa, Solana x Huma, FS Vector x Lithic x Thales, On the House, Turnkey happy hour, Money Moves and Martinis, Finance 20/20, Evening Party.

Wednesday 21 October is quiet: the floor closes at noon and most people fly out. Money Moves: Fintech After Hours by A36 Labs runs from 6:30pm to 10:00pm for anyone staying the night.

A few listings that look like events are promotions, such as a pass discount code and a booth invitation, and we left them out, along with sold-out events and pages still showing 2025 dates. New events appear every day; the community calendar at luma.com/money2020 is the most complete feed, though anyone can submit to it.

Which sessions should compliance, fraud and identity teams attend?

Start on Sunday. By our count of the official agenda on 9 October, 25 sessions carry the Fraud Prevention and Detection tag, and 12 of them run on Sunday, mostly in the Intelligence Summit, before the show floor opens. Mariëtte Swart, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Adyen, is also among this year's keynote speakers. The 2026 agenda sits under four content pillars: Borderless Financial Architecture, Technology as the Great Equalizer (which covers digital identity and AI-predicted fraud), Partnerships as the Engine to Scale, and Brave New World: Setting Guardrails (regulation and supervision). These are the sessions we would block out.

Sunday 18 October, Intelligence and Cybersecurity summits

• 9:00am, "Criminals Ship Fast: Is Your Risk and Compliance Team?", with Howard Fields, Chief Compliance Officer at Mastercard (Galileo 1001 to 1003).
• 9:30am, "Who Let the Bots Pay? The Missing Guardrails of Agentic Commerce", with speakers from Okta, Skyfire, Experian and Mastercard (Casanova 501 to 504).
• 10:25am, "Inside the Regulator's Mind: What Compliance Actually Requires", with Will Wilkinson of Persona and Carole House of Penumbra Strategies.
• 11:10am, "Digital Identity Is Broken: States Have a Solution", on state-issued digital identity.
• 11:35am, "Attack of the Clones: Managing Identity in the Deepfake Era", with fraud and identity leads from PlayStation, Block and Microblink.
• 1:45pm, "What the Fraud Floor Knows Before the Board Does", with Chainalysis, Adyen, Green Dot and Mastercard.
• 3:05pm, "AI Is Industrializing Fraud. What Comes Next?", with Incognia's chief executive.
• 3:30pm, "The Identity Anchor: Establishing Trust in the Agentic Economy", with compliance and risk leads from Kraken, Fiserv and Trulioo.

Monday 19 October

• 10:00am, "Verified Once Then Trusted Forever? Rethinking Identity, Preventing Fraud", with the chief compliance officer of X and the chief risk officer of Bluevine (MoneyPot Stage).
• 10:25am, "Know Your Agent: Here's How Banks Are Updating Identity Verification", with J.P. Morgan and Skyfire (ARRA.I.VAL Stage).
• 11:30am, "Deepfaked in the Interview: The New Cyber Threat in the Hiring Process", with Coinbase and Socure (Master Track Deep Dive).
• 1:35pm, "Clarity Act or Ambiguity: The Bill Redrawing the Financial Map" (Exchange Stage). Our CLARITY Act KYC and AML guide is the background reading.
• 2:10pm, "The Trust Layer for Agentic Commerce", with Mastercard, Skyfire and Forter (Meridian Stage).

Tuesday 20 October

• 9:30am, "How To Fight Fraud Perpetrated by an AI-Enabled Attacker", with Plaid's head of fraud, Adyen, Persona and the Financial Technology Association (Meridian Stage).
• 10:00am, "A View from the FDIC: The Future of Financial Innovation" (Exchange Stage).
• 10:00am, "Building the Infrastructure Behind a Stablecoin Program" (The Intersection Stage). If you are scoping stablecoin onboarding, read our note on the GENIUS Act stablecoin CIP proposal first.
• 10:15am, "The Data Flows That'll Allow You to Bank More High-Risk Businesses" (Master Track Deep Dive).
• 1:45pm, "You Had Me at Verified: How Identity Verification Drives Growth" (ARRA.I.VAL Stage).
• 2:15pm, "When Every Box Can't Be Checked: Rethinking Third-Party Risk" (MoneyPot podcast booth 1).
• 3:50pm, "When Fraudsters Adapt, Security Adapts: Prevention for Embedded Finance", with Bill.com, J.P. Morgan Payments, MercadoLibre and Walmart (Meridian Stage).

Wednesday 21 October

• 10:05am, "Defensible by Design: How Explainable AI Passed the Audit" (Meridian Stage), the session most squarely about audit evidence for AI decisions.

"Know your agent" sits on the main agenda this year, and the open question in every one of those sessions is the same one compliance teams face with AI compliance agents: who answers for a decision a machine made, and what evidence does it leave behind?

How much does a Money20/20 pass cost in 2026?

A Standard pass costs USD 4,199, and discounted passes for qualifying startups, banks, credit unions, investors, government bodies and retailers run from USD 1,795 to USD 3,999. Passes moved to full rate after 11 September. These are the prices on the official pass picker on 9 October 2026, in US dollars.

Discounted passes are reviewed before purchase, usually within three working days, so a startup or bank applying now is cutting it fine. Passes can also be bought onsite at badge pick up. Breakfast and lunch are included, and the Standard pass covers the Industry Nights.

Side events are run by vendors, investors and communities rather than by Money20/20, and hosts approve guests on role and company. If your goal is meetings rather than sessions, a week of side events plus prebooked meetings is a legitimate plan, but you will not get onto the show floor, into the summits or to the complimentary Money Row without a pass.

What should you ask KYC, KYB and AML vendors on the show floor?

The Money Hall puts most identity verification, KYB, sanctions and fraud vendors within a short walk of each other. The pass rates quoted on a booth are usually the best a vendor can show. A booth demo shows you a happy path on a perfect document; your question is how the system behaves on your traffic. These are the questions we would ask in your seat, and the answer that should worry you.

Ask the first question first. A KYC vendor that keeps a central copy of every passport it has checked is a breach target, and the risk does not stay with the vendor: much of it lands on you, which is the argument we make in why your KYC vendor is your biggest data breach risk. Zyphe is built so there is no central store of customer PII, with documents held by the user and encrypted pieces spread across thousands of nodes around the world.

Injection attacks feed a synthetic video stream straight into the capture flow, bypassing the camera, and a certificate that covers only presentation attacks says nothing about them; our 2026 deepfake detection guide and the liveness detection page explain what to test. For KYB, depth of ownership is where vendors differ most: compare answers against our KYB providers comparison and the KYB software checklist. For screening, ask how alerts are explained, and compare with what AML software should give an investigator.

Then ask for a pilot on your own data, scored on your own outcomes. A vendor confident in its numbers should agree to that.

Is Money20/20 worth it for a compliance team?

Yes, for a compliance lead who will use Sunday for the summits and Monday and Tuesday for prebooked vendor and peer meetings. No, if you would only attend sessions. Money20/20 is a payments and partnerships show first: most of the agenda is about rails, stablecoins, agentic commerce and embedded finance, and most of the people you will meet are in product, partnerships and sales. If you want deep sessions on investigations, typologies or suspicious activity reporting, specialist anti-money laundering conferences go further.

Your counterparts are there, though: compliance chiefs from card networks, exchanges and fintechs speak on the Sunday summits, and the fintechs whose onboarding you might approve or supply are on the floor. The agenda this year is also closer to compliance than it looks, because the agentic and stablecoin tracks keep landing on the same questions of identity, liability and audit evidence. And few events in the US calendar let you compare identity, KYB and fraud vendors side by side in two days.

If you go, plan it as a meetings week with a content Sunday, not as a conference you sit through.

Where should you stay, and how do you get around?

The organiser's discounted room block at The Venetian has sold out; alternatives are bookable through the official HotelMap portal. Staying at The Venetian or The Palazzo saves the most time, because the summits, the floor and Money Row are all under one roof. Harry Reid International Airport is about five miles from the Strip, and a taxi or rideshare is the quickest transfer.

A few practical details from the official guide: your Wi-Fi details are printed on the back of your badge; the cloakroom on Level 1 charges USD 8 per item; luggage storage at the Venetian and Palazzo guest services desks is free; large suitcases are not allowed into the venue. OMNIA is at Caesars Palace, a short ride from the Venetian, so plan the trip back before you go. Las Vegas in October is warm in the day and cool at night, and the walking distances inside the resorts are long, so the official guide's first packing tip is comfortable shoes.

The bottom line

To get the most from Money20/20 Las Vegas, arrive on Saturday, spend Sunday in the Intelligence and Cybersecurity summits, use Monday and Tuesday for the floor and prebooked meetings, pick two side events a night instead of five, and be at the airport on Wednesday afternoon. On the floor, ask every identity and compliance vendor where your customers' data will sit and how their accuracy holds up on your traffic. The Zyphe team is in Las Vegas from 18 to 21 October: if you would like to put those questions to us in person, book a meeting and we will show you KYC and KYB with no central store of customer PII.

Related resources

• Best KYC software in 2026
• KYB providers compared
• Deepfake detection in KYC, 2026
• AI compliance agents
• CLARITY Act KYC and AML requirements
• KYC and AML software
• Fraud detection software
• GENIUS Act
• Agentic compliance

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• Money20/20 USA, 2026 content pillars
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