Why You Should Attend MRC San Diego 2025

Set at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, MRC San Diego 2025 is exclusively for MRC members—and that’s what makes it so powerful. No outside noise, no watered-down content. Just real conversations, in-depth learning, and a community of experts focused on solving the most pressing challenges in fraud prevention and payments.

What's on the Agenda?

This year’s sessions reflect the complexity and speed of change in our industry. Whether you're focused on performance, compliance, customer experience, or fraud mitigation, you’ll find sessions built around actionable takeaways.

Some of the key themes include:

• AI & Agentic Commerce – Understand how AI agents are transforming fraud prevention, payments, and customer behavior
• Chargebacks & Subscription Strategies – Learn how top merchants are navigating refund abuse, policy changes, and dispute flows
• False Declines & Revenue Recovery – Explore tools and collaboration models that are helping businesses recover lost revenue
• Stablecoins & Emerging Rails – Get clarity on how innovations like stablecoins could reshape cross-border commerce and payment flows
• Authentication & 3DS – Dive into evolving regulations, passkeys, EMV 3DS, and what's next for frictionless verification
• Identity & KPIs – Take home measurable benchmarks for evaluating fraud and risk performance

That’s just a preview—see everything we’ve got planned. Check out the full agenda!

Featured Keynotes

You’ll hear from industry leaders tackling complex, timely issues in our two keynote sessions:

• Stablecoins & the Future of eCommerce: From Hype to Real-World Impact

Lindsay Lehr, Managing Director, PCMI

Stablecoins are more than a buzzword—they’re poised to reshape how merchants approach cross-border payments, cost, settlement speed, and fraud prevention. This keynote will cut through the hype and focus on what stablecoins mean for digital commerce right now—and what’s coming next.

• The Fraudster’s Playground: How Identity Verification Gaps Fuel eCommerce Crime

Gordon Sheppard, Consultant, Sage West Associates

This session explores the latest identity verification trends and technologies—and how fraudsters are finding and exploiting weak spots. You’ll gain practical strategies to close those gaps, reduce risk, and maintain a seamless customer experience.

Workshops Built for Real-World Impact

The workshop lineup this year includes focused, real-world sessions like:

• Payments 201 – Optimize your understanding of payment flows, orchestration, and transaction dynamics
• Fraud 201 – Analyze emerging fraud patterns, including AI-driven abuse and refund manipulation
• BIN-Anza! – A hands-on session packed with examples, resources, and tactical takeaways for getting the most out of BIN data
• Agentic AI in Action – Explore what agentic commerce means in practice—and how to spot and manage it before it impacts revenue or risk

All workshops are complimentary for attendees and eligible for CPE credits—but space is limited.

Networking That’s Actually Meaningful

One of the best parts of MRC San Diego? The people. This event is intentionally intimate, creating space for genuine, high-value conversations—not just quick introductions. Whether you’re grabbing coffee between sessions, attending structured roundtables, or swapping ideas over cocktails at the reception, you’ll have the opportunity to build relationships that last well beyond the event.

You'll be connecting with seasoned professionals from across the ecosystem—merchants, issuers, solution providers, and law enforcement—all of whom are there for the same reason: to solve tough problems and collaborate with peers. Past and current attendees include teams from companies like Google, Sony, Adobe, Target, and more!

MRC San Diego is the kind of event you’ll still be thinking about well into next year—the place where a strategy clicked, a partner was found, or an idea started to take shape.

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