Money20/20 is broad enough that a directory search can quickly become a logo scan. This watchlist is designed for a more practical job: identifying companies that can help a fintech operator move money, verify customers, control fraud, manage regulated workflows, or build financial products.
Methodology and important note: This is a non-ranked watchlist. TechCurrent selects companies from the current Money20/20 sponsor/exhibitor universe based on product relevance, differentiation and usefulness to fintech operators. Companies may also submit information or corrections for editorial consideration. Inclusion is free and does not constitute an endorsement.
Entry numbers are for navigation and readability only. Event participation is reported as context, not as a quality score. The watchlist will be updated as event information changes.
Last verified: September 11, 2026.
Payments and money movement
1. Adyen — unified enterprise payments
Adyen connects online and in-person acceptance with payouts, issuing, accounts, risk tools, and financial products on one platform. Why it is worth knowing: operators consolidating fragmented payment and treasury workflows can use the meeting to test which money movements and reconciliation steps can share one system. Money20/20 sponsor profile
2. Checkout.com — payment processing and optimization
Checkout.com provides payment acceptance, authentication, fraud controls, identity verification, and payouts for digital businesses. Why it is worth knowing: merchants and fintechs can examine where payment performance, fraud decisions, and treasury operations are connected—and where separate systems still remain. Money20/20 sponsor profile
3. Airwallex — global accounts, payments and embedded finance
Airwallex combines multi-currency accounts, acceptance, payouts, issuing, spend management, and platform APIs. Why it is worth knowing: businesses expanding across markets can compare one integrated global-finance layer with the cost and control of assembling local providers. Money20/20 sponsor profile
4. Lorum — global clearing, accounts and treasury
Lorum provides banks, fintechs, payment service providers and digital-asset platforms with access to named accounts, local payment rails and treasury across major currencies through one institutional relationship. Why it is worth knowing: teams expanding across markets can examine whether a fully reserved, non-lending correspondent model reduces fragmented bank relationships while preserving control over clearing, liquidity, settlement and customer ownership. Money20/20 sponsor profile, location 17111
5. Thunes — cross-border payment network
Thunes provides infrastructure for sending funds across borders and connecting to local payment endpoints. Why it is worth knowing: teams building remittance, wallet, marketplace, or payout products should ask about reach, settlement, compliance ownership, failure handling, and route transparency—not network size alone. Money20/20 sponsor profile
6. Marqeta — card issuing and processing
Marqeta provides configurable card-issuing and processing infrastructure for debit, credit, prepaid, and commercial use cases. Why it is worth knowing: product teams can test how authorization controls, ledger choices, programme management, and bank relationships change as a card programme scales. Money20/20 sponsor profile
7. Wise Platform — embedded cross-border payments
Wise Platform gives banks, financial institutions, and enterprises access to cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts, and card capabilities through APIs and other integration models. Why it is worth knowing: operators can compare the customer experience and operating model of using Wise’s network with traditional correspondent and payout arrangements. Money20/20 sponsor profile
Identity, fraud and trust
8. GBG — identity, fraud and trust infrastructure
GBG provides identity, document, location-data, fraud, and compliance capabilities used in digital onboarding and ongoing risk workflows. The company is also extending selected verification and decisioning capabilities into agent-driven workflows: its current material describes Reach as generally available through CLI, MCP, a Claude Agent Skill, and REST, while GoPlane remains in beta. Why it is worth knowing: fintech teams can test how an AI agent verifies identity or contact data while preserving policy-based decisions, confidence signals, and a retrievable audit record. Money20/20 sponsor profile, location 3-328
9. Prove Identity — phone-centric identity and authentication
Prove uses phone and network signals for identity verification, authentication, onboarding, and fraud controls. Why it is worth knowing: teams trying to reduce document and selfie friction can examine where phone-based proof is strong enough and which users or risks still require step-up verification. Money20/20 sponsor profile
10. Socure — identity and risk decisioning
Socure combines identity verification, document and biometric checks, fraud signals, compliance tools, and decision orchestration. Why it is worth knowing: risk teams can evaluate whether one decision layer improves consistency across onboarding, account changes, authentication, and transaction risk without hiding the evidence behind a score. Money20/20 sponsor profile
11. Proof — identity authorization and high-assurance transactions
Proof combines identity verification with electronic signatures, notarization, fraud monitoring, and audit records for high-stakes transactions. Its current positioning emphasizes authorizing the person behind an action—not only verifying identity at onboarding. Why it is worth knowing: financial-services teams can test how identity evidence is bound to a signature, approval, or wire authorization, what triggers live verification, and what audit evidence remains after the transaction. Money20/20 booth 5069
12. Unit21 — fraud and AML operations
Unit21 brings transaction and real-time monitoring, case management, sanctions and payment screening, regulatory filing, and investigation workflows into one risk-operations platform. Why it is worth knowing: fraud and compliance teams can examine whether connecting detection, investigation, and decisioning reduces fragmented handoffs while preserving human approval, explainability, and an auditable record. Money20/20 sponsor profile, location 9076
13. Trulioo — global person and business verification
Trulioo supports individual and business verification, KYC, KYB, and fraud intelligence across markets. Why it is worth knowing: fintechs entering new countries can ask how data coverage, document fallback, beneficial-owner checks, and regional workflow changes are handled through one integration. Money20/20 sponsor profile
14. Sumsub — verification, AML and transaction monitoring
Sumsub brings KYC, KYB, AML screening, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, and case management into one platform. Why it is worth knowing: operators consolidating financial-crime tools can test whether the shared workflow genuinely reduces duplicated reviews while preserving specialist controls and evidence. Money20/20 sponsor profile
15. Veriff — document and biometric identity verification
Veriff provides document, identity, biometric, and fraud checks for digital onboarding and authentication. Why it is worth knowing: teams facing deepfakes, document manipulation, or international onboarding should focus on coverage, fallback paths, review policy, and the evidence returned after a decision. Money20/20 sponsor profile
16. Sardine — fraud, AML and transaction risk
Sardine connects fraud prevention, AML operations, transaction monitoring, rules, models, and investigation workflows. Why it is worth knowing: banks and fintechs can examine whether shared signals and cases reduce the handoffs between fraud and compliance teams without weakening ownership or auditability. Money20/20 sponsor profile
Banking infrastructure
17. Column — developer-focused bank infrastructure
Column is a nationally chartered bank offering developer-facing accounts, payment rails, card programmes, and ledger capabilities through its own APIs. Why it is worth knowing: builders can compare a direct bank integration with middleware-heavy models and ask which operational, compliance, and programme responsibilities still sit with the fintech. Money20/20 sponsor profile
18. Unit — financial infrastructure for embedded products
Unit provides account, card, payment, and credit building blocks, along with operational tooling for embedded-finance programmes. Why it is worth knowing: platform teams can test how much technical, operational, and bank-programme control they retain at launch and as their product becomes more complex. Money20/20 sponsor profile
19. Finastra — core, lending and payments software
Finastra supplies software across core banking, payments, lending, treasury, and capital markets. Why it is worth knowing: established financial institutions can use the event to separate realistic modernization paths from broad platform claims, especially around integration, migration, and coexistence with legacy systems. Money20/20 sponsor profile
20. Cross River — API-based banking, payments and lending
Cross River combines a regulated bank with API-based accounts, payment rails, cards, lending, and other embedded-finance infrastructure. Why it is worth knowing: fintech builders can examine the trade-offs of working with a provider that operates both the bank and technology layer, including governance, integration depth, and product optionality. Money20/20 sponsor profile
21. The Bancorp — sponsor-bank and payment services
The Bancorp supports fintech programmes through card sponsorship, payment services, embedded finance, and sponsored lending. Why it is worth knowing: programme operators can test the less-visible operating layer behind card and account products—regulatory oversight, programme design, network access, exceptions, and ongoing bank-partner responsibilities. Money20/20 sponsor profile
Data, AI and risk decisioning
22. Taktile — configurable risk decisioning
Taktile gives financial-services teams a platform for building and governing decision workflows across onboarding, credit, fraud, and transaction monitoring. Why it is worth knowing: risk leaders can test how business rules, models, AI agents, and human review interact—and whether policy changes can be validated before production. Money20/20 sponsor profile
23. Oscilar — fraud and credit risk orchestration
Oscilar provides configurable risk infrastructure for fraud, credit, and compliance decisions. Why it is worth knowing: teams replacing spreadsheet rules or fragmented point systems can focus on data integration, rule and model control, explanation, and what happens when a decision needs manual review. Money20/20 sponsor profile
24. Gradient Labs — AI-native customer operations for financial services
Gradient Labs provides specialist AI agents for financial-services customer operations across frontline support, proactive outreach, and back-office workflows such as disputes and business verification. Why it is worth knowing: operations leaders can test which regulated customer journeys can be automated end to end, how policies and guardrails are controlled, and when cases are escalated to people with the context and audit trail intact. Money20/20 sponsor profile, location 6041
25. Prodigal — AI agents for loan servicing and collections
Prodigal combines AI agents, automation, and consumer-finance data for loan-servicing and collections workflows across voice and digital channels. Why it is worth knowing: lenders and collections teams can test how much of a borrower interaction can be automated while keeping payment handling, system integrations, escalation paths, and compliance guardrails explicit. Money20/20 sponsor profile, location 22086
26. Plaid — financial-data and account connectivity
Plaid connects applications with financial accounts and supports use cases spanning data access, payments, identity, income, and risk. Why it is worth knowing: product and risk teams can evaluate what verified account data can replace, where user permission and data freshness matter, and how payment and identity workflows connect. Money20/20 sponsor profile
Enterprise and fintech infrastructure
27. VGS — sensitive-data security and tokenization
VGS provides infrastructure for collecting, vaulting, tokenizing, and exchanging sensitive payment and identity data without exposing it to every internal system. Why it is worth knowing: security and payments teams can test whether reducing direct data exposure can narrow compliance scope and simplify provider changes without creating a new operational dependency. Money20/20 sponsor profile
28. LegitScript — merchant and platform risk monitoring
LegitScript provides merchant onboarding and continuous monitoring, transaction-laundering detection, and platform monitoring for payment providers and online platforms. Why it is worth knowing: payments and risk teams can test how automation and analyst review combine, what evidence accompanies a flag, and how coverage extends from onboarding into ongoing merchant monitoring. Money20/20 sponsor profile
29. Increase — banking and payment APIs
Increase provides developer-facing access to accounts and payment rails for software companies building financial products. Why it is worth knowing: engineering and operations teams can examine the depth of rail-level controls, reconciliation data, event handling, and support for exception-heavy workflows—not just the API surface. Money20/20 sponsor profile
How to use the watchlist
Start with the operating problem, not the sponsor tier. For each meeting, bring one live workflow, the systems it touches, the failure or review path, and the metric that should improve. Then ask the vendor to show where its product owns the decision, where another provider or bank remains responsible, and what evidence is available after something goes wrong.
For the broader event mix, see TechCurrent’s 312-record Money20/20 sponsor-directory analysis. It remains the publication’s flagship Money20/20 data briefing; this living watchlist serves a different pre-event discovery job.