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RT2: A strategic transformation for UK payment providers

The Payments Association

RT2, the UK’s new Real Time Gross Settlement service, and its transformative impact on the payments ecosystem. It enhances resilience, broadens access, improves interoperability, and enables innovation, thereby modernising the UK’s financial infrastructure. Why is it important? What’s next?

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Fedwire® Adopts ISO® 20022 Modernizing U.S. Payments

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

payments infrastructure. This upgrade aligns American payment processing with international standards, enabling greater efficiency, richer payment data, and more robust risk and fraud mitigation. Payments Adopting ISO 20022 is expected to improve U.S. Domestic and cross-border interoperability: The U.S.

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BIS CPMI Takes Further Steps to Promote ISO 20022 Harmonisation for Enhanced Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

Third, the CPMI will continue to engage with payment system operators and payment service providers to encourage them to implement the harmonised data requirements by end-2027.

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The Journey of Payments and Clearing Systems in India

Finextra

Early Electronic Initiatives (late 1980s/early 1990s): Limited electronic fund transfers began to emerge, mainly within banks or for specific corporate clients, but were not widely interoperable. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) (2016): The game-changer. Its simplicity, interoperability, and low cost made it an instant success.

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Deep Dive: Mastercard’s Shift - From Plastic to Platforms

Finextra

Mastercard has deliberately evolved “beyond the card” to support a much wider range of payment types and use cases. Its infrastructure, built for interoperability and scale, now handles everything from business-to-business (B2B) payments to person-to-person (P2P) transfers across different currencies.

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How tokenisation has reshaped the future of payments

The Payments Association

Merchants no longer need to handle or store sensitive payment data, dramatically reducing both their compliance burden and vulnerability to breaches. Subscription services are adopting network tokens to drastically reduce failed recurring payments when physical cards expire.

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Payments regulation roadmap: Q3 2025​

The Payments Association

Open Banking regulatory framework In May 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received government approval, establishing a legal basis for Smart Data schemes that extend beyond banking and paving the way for a broader Open Finance framework. transaction history, savings, pensions). transaction history, savings, pensions).