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Fraud is Evolving Faster Than Your Payments Stack

Fraud

Payments

MRC, Spreedly

Jul 15, 2026

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Fraud is not just rising. It is adapting faster than legacy payment stacks were designed to handle.

In 2026, merchants and marketplaces are facing more coordinated attacks, smarter bots, and abuse that slips past controls built for a different threat landscape, all while pressure mounts to protect approval rates and customer experience.

In this 201-level strategy session, Spreedly breaks down what to do next and what leading merchants are already doing to adapt.

Join Adam Hiatt, EVP of Fraud Strategy at Spreedly, as he shares how modern fraud and payments teams are:

Identifying the 2026 fraud patterns impacting ecommerce right now
Moving beyond static rules and siloed tools toward more adaptive fraud strategies
Using payments and fraud orchestration to reduce false declines without adding friction
Designing fraud defenses that scale across providers, regions, and customer journeys

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