Finovate

JULY 15, 2025

San Francisco, California-based embedded finance platform Highnote has launched its Instant Payments capability. The new addition to its unified product platform will enable businesses to provide near real-time payments from Highnote-issued cards to eligible debit and prepaid cards.

Embedded Finance

The Payments Association

MAY 16, 2025

Modern orchestration platforms address these challenges by supporting localised payment methodssuch as Alipay in China, UPI in India, or SEPA in Europefacilitating multi-currency acceptance and settlement. Real-time payment networks and instant settlement capabilities are transforming how funds move across systems.

Transactions

Fintech Finance

JULY 9, 2025

(NYSE:BR) has announced the significant market adoption of its service for connectivity, message processing and workflow management for instant payments. “Working with Broadridge has enabled our customers to integrate real-time payments efficiently and navigate the evolving regulatory landscape with confidence.”

Instant Payments

Finextra

JULY 30, 2025

0 30 July 2025 Be the first to comment Hussam Kamel Payments Architect Icon Solutions Location London Followers 0 Opinions 3 Follow Unfollow Global payments infrastructures have undergone a gradual but fundamental shift over the past decade: Moving away from legacy formats to adopt ISO 20022, the now de facto global standard for financial messaging.

ISO 20022

Clearly Payments

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Growth : In regions such as Southeast Asia and Latin America, bank transfer payments have grown by 20% annually due to increasing banking access. Faster Payments (U.K.), Wholesale CBDCs focus on interbank settlements, enhancing security and efficiency in large transactions between financial institutions.

Online and Mobile Banking

Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Manual Clearing Houses: Cheques remained the dominant non-cash payment instrument. Clearing houses, often managed by the RBI or lead banks, facilitated the physical exchange and settlement of cheques. This was labor-intensive and time-consuming. This was a step towards automated recurring payments.

Financial Inclusion

Fintech Finance

JULY 8, 2025

RS2 has today announced the release of its latest whitepaper, “Real-Time Fee Calculation and Settlement for a Real-Time World ,”. As real-time payments surge, expected to account for one in three transactions globally by 2030 , RS2’s new paper explores how acquirers, PSPs, and merchants are losing up to $3.65

Acquirers

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 12, 2025

From a Press Release dated June 9, 2025, Fort Lee, NJ Cross River Bank has launched its Request for Payment (RfP) solution, a new feature designed to enable secure, real-time inbound payments via the RTP® (Real-Time Payments) network.

Request for Payment

The Paypers

JUNE 16, 2025

It has pick-up locations in over 45 countries, with a strong presence in Australia, where it has now integrated Volt via payment infrastructure provider Optty. The collaboration reflects all companies’ shared goal to offer speed, development, and a simple payment experience.

Instant Payments

Fintech Finance

JUNE 15, 2025

Volt, the global real-time payments platform, has been chosen by Motorhome Republic to power its PayTo payment option in Australia. PayTo is a real-time payment system developed by Australia’s New Payments Platform in 2022. In Europe, it utilises SEPA Instant.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Fintech Times

MAY 2, 2025

Volt , the global real-time payments platform, is expanding its services to the Australian market in partnership with e-commerce giant Shopify. By teaming up with Shopify, Volt is aiming to enable Australian Shopify merchants to offer local consumers a one-click checkout experience, powered by digital payment solution PayTo.

Real Time Payments

Fintech News

MAY 11, 2025

Launched as a pilot in 2011, the service allows users to make payments, transfer money and perform other financial transactions using the Airtel Thanks App or USSD. Airtel Money has been recognized in the Cross-Border Payments 100 list every year since its inception, highlighting its sustained relevance in global payments.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

Their price stability, especially when fiat-backed, is proving vital for remittances, settlement processes, and even everyday payments. The report also notes a shift in consumer preferences, with rising adoption of digital wallets, mobile POS payments, and BNPL services. However, this growth is not without its hurdles.

Payments Trends

Fintech Finance

MAY 1, 2025

Volt , the global real-time payments platform, today announces its expansion with Shopify to the Australian market. In Australia, Volt will be first-to-market on Shopify with a one-click checkout built on PayTo , a real-time payment system developed by the countrys New Payments Platform in 2022.

Payment Solutions

The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Using blockchain infrastructure, real-world assets (RWAs) – such as real estate, equity, and intellectual property – can be digitised, fractionalised, and traded globally with greater transparency and efficiency. With FedNow enabling instant payments in the US, speed and reliability become non-negotiable.

Security

Finextra

JULY 11, 2025

Cobre’s new platform is changing the way payments work in Colombia by providing businesses with real-time B2B settlement through a secure and scalable infrastructure. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre. Please read our Privacy Policy.

B2B

EBizCharge

APRIL 24, 2025

Improved cash flow: A Salesforce-integrated payment system accelerates payment collections thanks to features like automated billing, instant payment processing, and recurring payment capabilities that can significantly reduce days sales outstanding (DSO) , improve cash flow, accelerate revenue recognition, and enhance financial predictability.

Payment Gateways

Cardfellow

JUNE 16, 2025

FedNow is a real-time payment system created by the US Federal Reserve that went live in the summer of 2023. Its purpose is to enable instant money transfers between banks and other financial institutions, but there are person-to-person (P2P) elements as well. What is FedNow? How does FedNow change credit card usage?

FedNow

Finextra

JULY 23, 2025

Headlines trumpet the arrival of instant payments, real-time rails, and millisecond processing times as if velocity were the sole measure of progress. billion payments totaling $86.2 This evolution reflects a more nuanced understanding of payment needs.

Real Time Payments

The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

Across the EU, operational resilience, real-time payments, and the steady rollout of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) are redefining compliance baselines for digital finance. The deadline for sending instant payments is 9 October 2025 for Euro area Member States and 9 July 2027 for non-euro area Member States.

Regulations

Payments Dive

JULY 11, 2025

Mesut Dogan via Getty Images Financial institutions that seek to send payments via the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire Funds Service must migrate to a new international standard come Monday. That’s when banks are required to begin using the ISO 20022 standard for electronic payments they choose to send over that Fed real-time settlement rail.

ISOs

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Real-time payments are imperative for running successful operations in today’s global ecosystem. Many of these providers are particularly competing for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to join their faster payments network over another, which can be tricky as more competitors enter this space. About the Tracker.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

You’d be forgiven for thinking that faster payments might be the purview of the U.S. Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. million in real-time payments for payroll in just two weeks after making that feature available.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Real-time payments continue to gain traction around the world. The country’s banking system is giving an upgrade to its instant payments system. Called PIX , the new payment rails have been in the works for some time and launched last week. Case in point: Brazil. Cash And Checks .

Real Time Payments

Tearsheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. This extended partnership will focus on integrating additional instant payment use cases across a range of payment flows for consumers, businesses, and governments.

Instant Payments

Fintech Finance

JULY 11, 2024

Today, the global provider of embedded finance infrastructure, OpenPayd , announces its clients can now send and receive payments via Pix, the Brazilian real-time payment network. Pix local payments in contrast are available 24/7 and a much cheaper, more reliable option for businesses and consumers alike.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Accomplishing this task poses a unique set of challenges, however, particularly when it comes to real-time payments. The 27 EU member states have their own financial systems, and many have also implemented their own domestic real-time payments rails. The Past and Future of EU Real-Time Payments.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

While some geographies have opted to collaborate with the private sector to develop their own national instant payment networks, others are adopting solutions like RippleNet and SWIFT gpi to modernize their banks’ capabilities. Hungary Welcomes Instant Payments. Curacao Takes Steps Toward Instant Payments.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

According to Russ Waterhouse , executive vice president of Product Development and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH), the surge in digitization brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the evolution of a range of RTP (Real-Time Payments) network advancements, including instant payroll, merchant settlements and tokenization.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Payments Canada is teaming up with Mastercard’s Vocalink for clearing and settlement for the country’s new real-time payments system, the Real-Time Rail (RTR). Delegated by the Canadian Government, Payments Canada is responsible for the clearing and settlement infrastructure, processes and rules.

ISO 20022

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Boston Federal Reserve Chief Operating Officer and FedNow Program Executive Ken Montgomery said the central bank’s ambitious payments initiative remains on track — and will inject competition into the instant payments market. The Timeframe .

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Corporate finance executives seem to be readying for real-time payments, preparing to adopt faster payment capabilities and bracing for changes to their cash flow management strategies as a result. This adoption curve is likely to repeat itself in a real-time payments environment, the report predicted.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2020

Sweden is the latest country to join the European Central Bank’s (ECB) instant payments platform in an effort to ease electronic payments. Launched in 2018, Euro’s instant payments were created to also be able to settle other currencies, the agency said. Today, the average number of daily instant payments is 1.5

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

As the need for speed increases worldwide, banks and other financial players are adapting payments to work smarter — not harder. As transaction times grow tighter and cover more distance, several companies are looking to add solutions for cross-border payments that still satisfy regulatory requirements.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

If you want to know how consumers feel about faster payments, talk to the millions of Americans who still have not received stimulus money as of mid- to late-May. Detailing similar efforts in India and the Asia-Pacific region, the new Tracker looks at faster payments systems getting built around the world to ignite whole economies.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

Real-time payments. Really, this time. In our latest Topic TBD, Cheryl Gurz, global head of payments offering and product strategy at CGI, told Karen Webster that faster payments is an idea whose time has come, and has been coming. The stage is set. For years. “I

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

As they work to achieve this, more companies are ditching paper-based methods and embracing digital solutions that streamline payments and reconciliations. Some financial institutions (FIs) are seeking to help their corporate clients tap into real-time payments (RTP) to keep up the pace. . “We

Real Time Payments