The Fintech Times

JUNE 23, 2025

The European Payments Alliance , the initiative aiming to build a pan-European payment service, has taken another step towards achieving its goal, as five firms have agreed to explore a shared cross-border payments solution.

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Fintech News

JULY 14, 2025

Card issuing—the new competitive arena Once dominated by banks and card networks, the payment landscape now includes diverse players: digital wallets , BNPL providers , instant payment schemes, embedded finance apps, and central banks with CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency).

Payment APIs and Integration

Clearly Payments

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Mobile Commerce Dominance Mobile commerce (m-commerce) continues to reshape the global ecommerce landscape, accounting for over 70% of all online retail sales in 2025. The rise of smartphones, improved mobile payment solutions, and the expansion of 5G networks have fueled this rapid shift toward mobile-first shopping experiences.

BNPL

The Payments Association

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Jeff Parker, CEO, says, “Digital payments will continue to grow rapidly, with mobile wallets expected to reach 4.8 Key trends will include the acceleration of cross-border, real-time and instant payments and the rise of cashless economies. billion users by 2025, nearly 60% of the global population.

Cross-Border

The Payments Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

The report also notes a shift in consumer preferences, with rising adoption of digital wallets, mobile POS payments, and BNPL services. Looking to 2025, mobile payments and digital commerce are projected to exceed 10 trillion, with open banking and real-time payments leading growth.

Payments Trends

Fintech Finance

JULY 3, 2025

This partnership comes on the back of Curve launching Curve Pay on iOS, marking a watershed moment in mobile payments. Curve Pay is underpinned by Thales’ D1 platform on iOS and Android in Europe which allows customers to digitize a payment card through a mobile wallet.

Security

EBizCharge

MARCH 20, 2025

Your payment processor may also provide additional features you can plug into Sage, such as recurring billing, email pay, online billing portals, mobile payments, and physical payment terminal options to simplify payment collections.

Payment Gateways

Fintech Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

“Luxembourg is both at the center of Europe and the EPI project as it embodies our need to unify the payment landscape and offer sovereign cross-border solutions. We’re glad to have joined forces with EPI in a partnership that underscores our shared ambition to shape the future of mobile payments in Europe.

Digital Payments

The Payments Association

MARCH 18, 2025

For payments firms, this opens doors to alternative credit scoring, smarter risk assessment, and deeper customer engagementbut also significant challenges around governance and trust. The countrys instant payments system, Pix, has been integrated into the open finance ecosystem, significantly driving adoption.

Finance

Fintech Finance

JULY 30, 2025

In addition to her executive role at SIBS, Madalena chairs several companies, where she provides strategic direction in pan-European payments, network management, cybersecurity, digital services, digital certification and financial management.

Consulting

The Fintech Times

MAY 2, 2025

Only 18 per cent offer some kind of A2A or bank transfer, which facilitates instant payments for customers and removes inconvenient pending transactions.

Online and Mobile Banking

The Fintech Times

JUNE 26, 2025

The London-based fintech is planning expansion into new markets and sectors, building on its instant payments and identity platform for igaming. Craig Ramsey, head of real-time and account-to-account payments at ACI Worldwide, has been elected to the US Faster Payments Council board of directors.

FinTech

Finovate

JULY 18, 2025

Asia-Pacific Singaporean fintech Chocolate Finance integrated transaction enrichment technology from Snowdrop Solutions into its mobile app. Mobile payments platform QwikPay launched in Australia. Sub-Saharan Africa MoneyBadger, a bitcoin payments startup based in South Africa, raised $400,000 in pre-seed funding.

Cash Management

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The global payments ecosystem is still in flux after a year of rapid changes caused by the pandemic, and instant payments are becoming more intriguing to consumers around the globe. One PYMNTS study found that 59 percent of United States consumers would use instant payments because of their convenience, for example.

Instant Payments

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2024

RoPay allows users to make instant mobile payments in line with the national payment scheme. The first available use is for proximity-based person-to-person (P2P) payments. Instant payments can be made between accounts at different banks or at the same bank, without using bank details.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

As consumers’ day-to-day lives have digitized across the board in 2020, Hernandez said that Mastercard had already seen a trend toward the adoption of instant payments. Instant payments are critical to fully delivering on that end user experience, she noted.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Instant payments are becoming crucial to consumers participating in the platform economy. To meet this need, platforms are searching for new ways to bring instant payments onto their marketplaces. Around the Payments And the Platform Economy. Why TickPick Is Betting On Instant Payments, Fee Transparency.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

McFarland said FinTechs offer underlying platforms that let corporates and banks not simply flip on one set of instant-disbursement rails and call it a day, but enable all rails and let customers pick one. As a result, she expects some notable progress on instant payments as 2021 and beyond brings better days to the market. “At

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The new year dawned with individual country and company initiatives tied to instant payments, and moving beyond cash transactions. 3) that, in Hungary, commercial banks have started a test phase for a domestic instant payments system, with a “go live” date slated for July 1.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

India has embraced its model for digital payments so much that it intends to take it global. Since its debut four years ago, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corp.

Volume

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Campos Neto also noted Brazil’s central bank has talked to other Big Tech firms like Google about their interest in offering instant payments services in the country, Reuters reported. For its part, Brazil’s Pix instant payments platform debuted Monday morning, with 72 million registrations. The registrations included 1.8

P2P

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

PEPSI promises a European standard that would not only process card payments, but would also execute transfers, instant payments and mobile payments without using Visa’s or Mastercard’s networks. In addition, PEPSI is backed by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Commission.

Visa

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The word is out about instant payments — a fact made largely indisputable by the numbers. Instant disbursements are also picking up steam where it really counts — usage. When we asked in 2017 how many consumers have received an instant payment, the answer was a mere 11 percent. Choice: The Golden Rule of Instant .

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The new "Instant Payments" offering lets employers fund payroll in close to real time, eliminating the lag between when funds leave an employer's account and when those funds arrive in employees' accounts, which Square says can stretch to as much as four business days. Square Inc. NYSE:SQ) on Tuesday (Sept.

Payroll

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report.

Mobile Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

NovoPayment announced that it has scaled the deployment of Visa Direct to enable instant payments, P2P and P2M payments, account-to-account payments, fast funds and mass payouts, as well as the use of Visa Token Services.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report.

Mobile Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Free transactions are expected to put 8 percent of payments revenue at risk, according to the report. In addition, instant payments and app-based virtual wallets will jeopardize 3.9 percent of payment revenues. “Channels that once made the banks billions of dollars will cease to exist.” . percent of bank revenues.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

For senders, delivering that experience means more than just moving money faster into bank accounts or digital wallets — it is also about offering the payment choices that create ubiquity for the consumers on the other end of the transactions. From the Appearance of Instant to the Reality of Instant.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The influx of freelancers is pushing companies to adopt even faster methods of disbursements to satisfy their need for payment speed. That means an end to the days of sending paper checks through the mail, and increased reliance on payment solutions that are often built right into the service itself.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Cash Out: PhonePe on India’s Mobile Payments Adoption. In this month's Smarter Payments Tracker, Raghupathy discusses how offering streamlined mobile payment experiences can convert cash-loving shoppers and ease merchants’ headaches. EXCLUSIVE: Mastercard, Ingo Partner to Bring Instant Payments to Treasury Banks.

Credit Cards

Payments Source

JANUARY 7, 2021

While instant payments and open banking have been gaining momentum across the globe, payments providers have established digitally backed services that not only facilitate seamless financial operations but also help generate revenue, says AFEX Americas' Christian Spaltenstein.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

BELLIN announced that it has successfully integrated support for SEPA real-time payments into its software solutions, with the help of Deutsche Bank.

Instant Payments

Fintech News

APRIL 3, 2024

This initiative has been supported by a wide array of stakeholders from both countries, including the National ITMX (NITMX) and Lao National Payment Network (LAPNet) as the instant payment system operators, and Kasikornbank (KBank) and Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao (BCEL) as settlement banks.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

Keeping prices transparent in an instant payments ecosystem is crucial to competing in the increasingly saturated online ticket sales market, said Brett Goldberg, CEO of digital ticket platform TickPick. Instant Payments and Fees in Online Ticketing. Let’s say the event is at night,” he said.

Instant Payments

Payments Source

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Brazil aims to move beyond the era of cash payments on Monday, when the Banco Central do Brasil launches the Brazil Instant Payment System.

Use Case

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

TouchBistro, the provider of iPad point-of-sale (POS) software for restaurants, has announced the launch of TouchBistro Payments powered by WePay.

Instant Payments