Fiserv Forum Client Conference 2026 lands a month earlier than last year, running August 17 through 19 at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. This year's agenda brings together more than 4,000 leaders across banking, commerce, and fintech, with keynotes from behavioral scientist and New York Times bestselling author John Levy, plus a first Forum appearance from Fiserv's new CEO, Takis Georgakopoulos, who stepped into the role in June. The conference wraps with a private performance from OneRepublic.
For community banks and credit unions exploring revenue opportunities in cross-border payments, several sessions this year stand out. We've rounded up the top sessions on international and cross-border payments below, organized by date and time, so you can plan your Forum schedule around them.
Acceleron will be on site throughout the conference. Our COO, Elizabeth Downey, will be there and happy to talk with anyone interested in streamlining international wire operations.
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PT | Breakout Session BR144, Marcello 4401A, 4501B Speakers: Bruce Dragt, Fiserv; Jorge Valdivia Arenas, Fiserv
As enterprises expand globally, payments orchestration — integrating a business’s payment gateways, processors, and providers into a single platform — becomes the foundation for consistent customer experiences, regional flexibility, and long term scale. This session walks through real world examples of how global organizations are using Fiserv's orchestration capabilities to support growth across markets beyond basic transaction routing, and how early design decisions help institutions avoid repeated re-architecture as payment needs evolve.
Why Attend: Orchestration decisions made early tend to determine how much friction an institution faces later when scaling cross-border volume. This session is a useful primer before committing to an architecture.
2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT | Breakout Session BR135, Lando 4203, 4303 Speakers: Steve Max, Executive Vice President, U.S. Bank; Rossana Thomas, VP, Head of Commercial Payments Solutions, Fiserv
Global businesses expect money to move with the same speed and certainty as goods and services. This session covers how financial institutions are modernizing cross-border payments by improving connectivity, reducing friction between accounts, and increasing transparency across international flows, along with the architectural and operating model decisions shaping the future of instant cross-border payments.
Why Attend: Acceleron will definitely be attending this session in person. It speaks directly to the operational and liquidity visibility questions community banks run into when they modernize wire processes, and how faster settlement can become a source of non-interest income rather than just a compliance cost.
Read more about the hidden ops cost of manual and dual entry international wire processing, and how automation streamlines cross-border payments:
10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT | Breakout Session BR133, Marcello 4403, 4503 Speakers: Chris Abele, Fiserv; Paul Adams, Fiserv; Viral Daiya, Fiserv; Giuliana Plastina Cestaro Branco, VP Product Management, Fiserv
Building the capability to accept payments across borders is only the first step in global commerce success. This session looks at how payment trends across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia are shaping buyer expectations and merchant strategy, including how to manage liquidity and FX, reduce fraud, and use AI to scale without adding operational burden.
Why Attend: Merchant-side FX and liquidity management often mirror the challenges community FIs face on the correspondent banking side. Useful context for any institution thinking about bundling FX services into its commercial offering.
10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT | Breakout Session BR129, Lando 4203, 4303 Speakers: Keri Kramers-Dove, VP, Head of Financial Crime & Risk Management, Fiserv; Kannan Srinivasan, VP Risk Assurance, Fiserv; Rossana Thomas, VP, Head of Commercial Payments Solutions, Fiserv
Financial crime has become a dynamic, networked threat spanning fraud, AML, sanctions, and cybersecurity risk. This session explores how real-time payments, digital wallets, AI-enabled fraud schemes, and cross-border money laundering intersect, and the steps institutions can take to improve detection, prevention, and response.
Why Attend: Cross-border wire volume is a common entry point for financial crime exposure. This session is directly relevant for compliance and operations teams weighing how much AML and sanctions screening to bring in-house versus outsource.
2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT | Breakout Session BR140, Lando 4205, 4305 Speakers: Robert Clayton, VP, Payouts and Currency, Fiserv; Tony Hammond, Freedompay; Natalie O'Donnell, Director, FX Product Strategy & Growth, Fiserv; Kyle Rosen, Head of Americas, Thunes
Geopolitical shifts are reshaping cross-border commerce, changing spending patterns, payment preferences, and FX dynamics in real time. This panel examines how organizations adapt payments and FX strategies as conditions change, and how disciplined acceptance, FX, and infrastructure decisions help manage risk and turn volatility into growth.
Why Attend: With FX volatility directly affecting margin on international wires, this panel is a good closing session for anyone building or refining an FX monetization strategy.
Cross-border payments are undergoing one of the most significant transformations in decades. Between instant payments orchestration, FX volatility driven by geopolitical shifts, and rising financial crime risk, community banks and credit unions have a real opportunity to modernize and monetize their international wire business.
For institutions that embrace automation, these shifts are not just about keeping up, they are about better liquidity visibility, stronger FX pricing, and a new source of non-interest income.
For more on FX monetization, read our correspondent banking marketplace overview and how it builds redundancy in a volatile economic environment:
Be sure to check the schedule the week before the conference for any last-minute updates, since this is a preliminary agenda and subject to change. With sessions spread across three days, planning ahead is key. Fiserv Forum 2026 organizes its content into these tracks:
Core Banking Modernization
Digital Banking Journeys & Experience
Instant Payments
Card Issuer Strategy & Cardholder Engagement
Small Business Banking
AI, Data Intelligence & Personalization
Cybersecurity, Fraud & Risk Defense
Digital Assets, Embedded Finance & API Ecosystems
Regulatory Insights & Industry Trends
Seamless Omnichannel Commerce
Merchant Payments Optimization
Gift, Stored Value, Loyalty & Payouts
Disputes & Chargebacks
Don't just attend the sessions, come away with actionable strategies. If you are curious how international payments solutions already pre-integrated with Fiserv Payments Exchange can help your institution put these ideas into practice, let's have a conversation.
Schedule a 1-1 meeting with our team at Fiserv Forum, or look for our COO, Elizabeth Downey, on site to talk through how wire automation and FX monetization can generate non-interest income for your bank or credit union.
Acceleron is a modern correspondent banking platform that empowers community banks and credit unions to automate international wire transfers, capture non-interest income, and compete more effectively with big banks. With a foreign exchange (FX) marketplace and currency conversion engine, Acceleron’s API-first infrastructure helps institutions turn cross-border payment flows into efficient, revenue-generating opportunities. Serving over 200 financial institutions and facilitating more than $1 billion in international payments annually, our correspondent banking services and international payment automation solutions are pre-integrated seamlessly with Fiserv Payments Exchange, Aptys, and other leading payments platforms.
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