Dan Frechtling

Dan Frechtling

Dan Frechtling, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy, LegitScript
Dan Frechtling is a veteran risk leader serving as Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy at LegitScript, where he drives product innovation, grows the company’s expertise in merchant intelligence, and strengthens partnerships with leading platforms, marketplaces, and payment companies. He brings over a decade of experience in mitigating merchant, seller, and advertising risk, having held leadership roles such as president of G2 Risk Solutions and CEO of Boltive. Frechtling holds a B.A. in journalism and economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), E-Commerce
How Hybrid AI Will Transform Payments in 2026
January 27, 2026 at 5:04 pm

Payments innovation is no longer about simply adopting artificial intelligence. It’s about pairing intelligent systems with human-in-the-loop accountability so that compliance, context and ethics evolve as quickly as the technology itself. In 2025, AI reshaped payments. In 2026, it will redefine them. Retailers, payment service providers, and the platforms that support them are entering a…

E-Commerce
Compliance Countdown: VAMP and MMP Bring the Heat to Merchant Risk
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 pm

The payments industry is entering a period of heightened accountability, driven by escalating fraud threats and tightening card network standards. As merchant fraud grows more sophisticated, acquiring banks, payment facilitators (payfacs), and independent sales organizations (ISOs) face greater scrutiny to identify and prevent illicit activity. Two major deadlines are reshaping how companies that facilitate payment…