New Ideas, a Trusted Foundation: Lusis Payments at Nonstop TBC 2026

New Ideas, a Trusted Foundation: Lusis Payments at Nonstop TBC 2026

By Brian Miller, General Manager, Lusis Payments

When someone makes a payment, they expect it to work. They aren’t thinking about the systems behind it or the work involved in keeping those systems running. As we introduce AI and new ways to pay, that expectation stays the same.

That connection between new services and dependable payments ran through two sessions involving our colleague Ki Roth at Nonstop TBC 2026 in Orlando.

Putting Agentic Commerce into Practice

Ki joined HPE’s Martin Lomax to discuss the agentic commerce demonstration developed for HPE Discover Las Vegas. The idea is straightforward: a customer asks an AI assistant to help with a purchase, and the assistant carries out shopping and purchasing tasks on their behalf.

For that interaction to work, the assistant needs a way to communicate with the payment system. Lusis developed the software interface that allowed the front end to send requests to TANGO, along with other connections needed for the demonstration.

Ki and Martin walked through that work and explored how new services could be developed alongside existing payment capabilities on HPE NonStop, without introducing a new platform. For banks and payment providers, that offers a practical way to explore agentic commerce while building on systems they already know and depend on.

Looking Beyond Uptime

Adding those capabilities also raises questions about how to keep payment decisions reliable. That was central to Ki’s second session, a panel moderated by Casey Taylor, General Manager of HPE NonStop, with participants from FIS and HPE engineering.

The discussion examined why keeping systems running is only part of the responsibility. The information used to make decisions must also be accurate, complete, and up to date. When a payment is being assessed in real time, there is little room for missing information or a delayed response.

Ki brought that point into the discussion of fraud prevention, including the role of TANGO AIF, which combines rules and AI-based analysis to help identify and act on potential fraud. These tools depend on reliable transaction data. The quality of the information beneath them directly affects the decisions they can make.

For the customer, those decisions have immediate consequences: whether a legitimate purchase goes through or a suspicious transaction is stopped. That is why the panel’s conversation about resilience extended beyond uptime to the trust people place in every payment.

The Value of Face-to-Face Connections

Beyond the sessions, TBC continues to be a valuable opportunity to connect with others in the industry. The 10-minute lightning rounds helped keep attendees engaged and encouraged them to spend more time with exhibitors. The trade-off was that conversations on the show floor sometimes had to pause while presentations were underway.

For Lusis, one of the biggest benefits remains the opportunity to meet face-to-face with our partners at HPE, including management and team members from around the world. These conversations help strengthen relationships, exchange ideas, and identify new opportunities to work together.

Taking the Next Step

For me, the two sessions showed how closely innovation and reliability are connected. An AI assistant may change how a purchase begins, but the payment still needs to be processed with the care customers expect.

Our work with HPE brings those priorities together. As we continue developing new capabilities at Lusis, we’re focused on making them useful for the institutions operating them and dependable for the people using them.