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RT2: A strategic transformation for UK payment providers

The Payments Association

This represents a strategic shift for payment providers, affecting cost structures, risk exposure and increasing competition. This supports automated processes, better treasury management, and faster decision-making. Greater access The previous RTGS operated as a closed system, mainly limited to traditional banks.

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How Transforming Treasury Banks Helps Corporates Transform, Too

PYMNTS

In a panel discussion with Karen Webster, six payments, banking and FinTech executives weighed in on the very nature of change that is transforming treasury banking and corporate clients in real time. The general things everybody wants — transparency, for example, or lower cost structures — are definitely on the map.

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Merchant-facing regulation: What merchants need to know in 2025

The Payments Association

These developments will impact merchant compliance, cost structures, customer experience, and operational risk. Assess how stablecoin acceptance will affect treasury management and FX exposure. Monitor FCA and Treasury updates on the stablecoin licensing regime. Why is it important? What’s next?