Rethinking Merchant Underwriting in the Age of AI

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In an era where AI can spin up convincing businesses overnight, traditional merchant verification is no longer enough. Identity checks that once worked are easier to fake, fraud is scaling faster than teams can react, and card networks are shifting accountability from onboarding to ongoing outcomes.

This webinar explores how leading payment service providers are rethinking onboarding and underwriting in a future undergirded by AI. Teams are moving beyond KYC to verify merchant intent, apply risk-based friction, and continuously defend their portfolios. In this session, our panel will discuss what durable trust models look like in the AI age.

What You’ll Learn

• Why identity alone no longer equals trust in digital payments
• How AI is industrializing merchant fraud—and what signals still work
• What card networks and sponsor banks now expect beyond onboarding
• How to detect high-risk merchant intent earlier in the lifecycle
• Why companies are now looking for underwriting as a managed service
• How continuous monitoring turns decisions into defensible evidence

Designed for underwriting, risk, and compliance teams at PSPs, payfacs, and acquirers who need to approve merchants with confidence and explain their decisions long after onboarding.