i2c to Join Nacha Payments 2026 Panel on Navigating Legal Risk in Embedded Finance

Meredith Carlo, General Counsel at i2c, to Share Industry Perspective on Regulatory and Compliance Challenges in Payments-as-a-Service Models

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--i2c Inc., a global financial technology innovator, today announced that Meredith Carlo, General Counsel at i2c, will be a featured panelist at Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments 2026, a leading annual conference for the payments industry. Carlo will participate in a panel discussion titled "Embedded Finance and 'Payments-as-a-Service' Models: Navigating Legal Risk" on Tuesday, April 28, at 4:10 PM PT.

Embedded finance and payments-as-a-service models continue to reshape how financial institutions, fintechs, and software technology providers collaborate to provide innovative payments, lending, and banking products to consumers and businesses. Carlo’s session will examine the legal and regulatory frameworks governing these increasingly complex partnerships, exploring the contractual, compliance, and oversight challenges inherent to these ecosystems. The discussion will cover data sharing, consumer protection, and third-party risk management, as well as practical strategies for maintaining regulatory compliance while supporting innovation.

The panel will also examine recent regulatory developments shaping embedded finance, including the Federal Reserve’s announcement regarding a potential “skinny” master account for fintechs and what greater access to payment rails or accounts at the Fed could mean for bank‑fintech partnership models.

"The rapid expansion of embedded finance has created new opportunities for banks and technology providers alike, but it has also introduced a more complex web of legal and regulatory obligations," said Meredith Carlo, General Counsel at i2c. "The challenge for the industry is building partnership models that clearly allocate responsibility and risk in a way regulators can support and customers can trust.”

With over two decades of experience advising on emerging technologies and applying legal frameworks to evolving business models, Carlo brings a seasoned perspective to a payments landscape where the rules of engagement are still being written. Her participation reflects i2c’s commitment to shaping the frameworks that will enable sustainable growth in embedded finance.

Nacha's Smarter Faster Payments 2026 takes place April 26-29 in San Diego, California. For more information on the conference and session schedule, visit https://payments.nacha.org.To meet with i2c at Nacha, please contact us at [e-mail].

About i2c Inc.

An award-winning global financial technology innovator powering credit, debit, prepaid, core banking, and money movement solutions, i2c unifies banking and payments in an all-in-one platform, transforming product personalization with a customer-centric architecture and accelerating speed-to-market with composable building-block solutions. Financial institutions and fintechs globally trust i2c to help them quickly and efficiently configure and scale differentiated financial offerings in an evolving, competitive market. Powered by innovation and driven by trust for more than 25 years, i2c blends modern ingenuity with expert reliability to supercharge exceptional banking and payments experiences for millions of users and billions of transactions worldwide.

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