U.S. Payments Forum

U.S. Payments Forum is the industry body where issuers, acquirers, networks, processors and merchants sort out payment technology questions that no single company can solve alone. It began in August 2012 as the EMV Migration Forum and was renamed in 2016 once its remit grew to tokenization, encryption and contactless. Today it is an affiliated organization of the Secure Technology Alliance.

What it has published lately

On 4 August 2026 the Alliance spun out a new Agentic Trust and Commerce Forum for agentic interoperability, human intent and security, citing a projection of over 300 billion dollars in US agentic commerce by 2030. A podcast episode on 1 June, "Machine Learning & Fraud: A Practitioner Perspective", looked at AI and the fraud ecosystem. In May the Forum issued a Spring Market Snapshot after its member meeting in Houston, covering agentic commerce, tokenization complexity and authentication fraud, and a recap of the Identity & Payments Summit.

Next

The Fall Member Meeting is on 17 and 18 November 2026 at Best Buy headquarters in Minneapolis. Useful for card-present and card-not-present teams tracking EMV, tokens and authentication.