--- title: MAG Payments Conference source_page: https://www.sardine.ai/events/mag-payments-conference canonical: https://www.sardine.ai/events/mag-payments-conference format: text/markdown date: 2026-09-27T20:00:00.000Z description: Sardine is exhibiting at MAG Payments Conference in Nashville, TN, Sep 27–30. Visit booth #104 to talk payments fraud with our team. --- **Quick links:** [Human page](https://www.sardine.ai/events/mag-payments-conference) · [Home](https://www.sardine.ai) · [Customers](https://www.sardine.ai/customers) · [Blog](https://www.sardine.ai/insights/blog) · [Demo](https://www.sardine.ai/demo) --- # MAG Payments Conference **Published:** 2026-09-27T20:00:00.000Z Sardine is exhibiting at MAG Payments Conference in Nashville, TN, Sep 27–30. Visit booth #104 to talk payments fraud with our team. If you're attending MAG Payments Conference, come meet the Sardine team onsite. The MAG Payments Conference is the Merchant Advisory Group's annual gathering for payments professionals, including issuers, merchants, and networks, working through the practical challenges of authorization, fraud, and transaction operations. We'll be discussing: Authorization rate optimization and how fraud rules interact with decline rates Friendly fraud and chargeback patterns: what's driving them and how merchants are responding Real-time fraud detection approaches that don't sacrifice conversion for protection We're exhibiting this year at booth #104. Stop by to talk through how payments and merchant fraud teams are tackling these challenges. If these challenges are on your radar, we're happy to compare notes. Stop by or schedule time to meet with the team.