Fintech News

JANUARY 7, 2025

It enables secure and compliant transactions, with 24/7 payment settlement capability, offering uninterrupted fund circulation throughout the trade process. We remain committed to our goal of helping SMEs efficiently engage in global trade and enhance their competitiveness on a worldwide scale through technology.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JUNE 16, 2025

Offline settlements with a digital pound: Lessons from the BoE’s report 16 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? Danny Russell Head of digital currency technology, Bank of England “The report on the experiment clearly highlights the challenges of supporting offline CBDC payments.

Settlement

Fintech News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The mBridge project, initially supported by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), continues to focus on using distributed ledger technology for efficient cross-border settlements, despite BIS “graduating out” of the four-year initiative.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this exclusive Fintech Review interview, Adam Swartzbaugh, CEO of Almond FinTech , discusses transformative cross-border payment technology. Almond’s blockchain-driven Settlement Optimization Engine (SOE) addresses critical speed, transparency, and cost challenges in cross-border payments. Let’s dive in.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JUNE 9, 2025

RT2: Renewed real-time gross settlement marks transformation for UK payment providers 9 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? RT2, the UK’s new Real Time Gross Settlement service, and its transformative impact on the payments ecosystem. Why is it important?

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money has been granted direct access to InstaPay, the Philippines’ real-time payment system, and can also directly settle with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) real-time gross payment system, PhilPaSS Plus.

Instant Payments

Fintech Finance

MARCH 24, 2025

Additionally, integrated settlement and liquidity management solutions, overseen by the Central Bank as the clearing and settlement agent, provide real-time net position updates and multiple settlement cycles, while a national QR payment standard known now as “SOMQR” enables fast contactless transactions with a simple scan.

Instant Payments

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 7, 2025

Payroc today announced the acquisition of Agilisa Technologies , an API-centric payment gateway headquartered in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Agilisa enhances Payroc’s technological gateway capabilities and further extends their presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Technology

Fintech News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This plug-and-play collaboration will allow consumers to pay with crypto at Ingenico terminals, while merchants can seamlessly receive settlements in their local currency, eliminating currency risk. Ingenico, a French merchant services tech company, has partnered with Crypto.com to enable crypto payments for millions of merchants worldwide.

Cryptocurrency

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 13, 2025

Designed to process transactions as small as $0.0001, AIsa enables instant settlements with near-zero fees. Key features include: Zero-Latency Transactions: Millisecond-level settlement speeds to meet real-time demands. Ultra-Low Cost: Support for microtransactions with negligible fees.

Payment Networks

Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Retailers will also benefit from same-day settlement in local currencies like EUR, GBP, USD, and CHF, ensuring a smooth, risk-free integration. Lunu Pay’s cutting-edge technology makes crypto payments accessible to retailers by automatically converting digital currencies into euros or other local currencies at the point of payment.

Alternative Payment Methods

The Payments Association

MAY 16, 2025

Payment orchestration plays a pivotal role in this environment by simplifying the integration and management of various payment providers, methods, and technologies. Real-time payments and instant settlement: As consumer expectations shift, instant gratification has become the norm rather than a luxury.

Transactions

Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2024

With a series of organisational and strategic upgrades in 2024, Ant International , a leading global digital payment and financial technology provider, reported robust growth over the past year among all its four pillar businesses, Alipay+ , Antom , WorldFirst and Embedded Finance. connecting over 90 million merchants in 66 markets to 1.6

Embedded Finance

The Fintech Times

JULY 4, 2025

As a Project Guardian participant, Ant International also leveraged its blockchain-based Whale platform to develop a global treasury management use case for real-time multi-currency clearing and settlement. By enabling interoperability between bank solutions, payments can be completed 24/7 with FX settlement conducted in real-time.

Interoperability

Fintech Finance

MARCH 24, 2025

Additionally, integrated settlement and liquidity management solutions, overseen by the Central Bank as the clearing and settlement agent, provide real-time net position updates and multiple settlement cycles, while a national QR payment standard known now as “SOMQR” enables fast contactless transactions with a simple scan.

Instant Payments

The Fintech Times

JULY 10, 2025

As real-time payments take off, set to make up one in three transactions worldwide by 2030, a new whitepaper from RS2, a global payments technology provider, warns the industry is falling behind where it matters most: fee settlement. in fees, through SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Instant Payment rails for €1, saving €8.50

Real Time Payments

Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Clearing houses, often managed by the RBI or lead banks, facilitated the physical exchange and settlement of cheques. Introduction of MICR Cheques (1980s): Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) technology was introduced for faster and more accurate processing of cheques, reducing manual intervention.

Financial Inclusion

Finextra

JUNE 19, 2025

Visa is upping it game in the stablecoin market, expanding its settlement capabilities in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) region to enable USD cross-border transactions through blockchain technology.

Stablecoins

Fintech News

JULY 31, 2025

The State of Payment Infrastructures Modern payment infrastructure systems, such as India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and South Korea’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), are setting benchmarks by enabling real-time, cashless, and interoperable transactions.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Marking a pivotal point, Indonesias efforts underscore its drive to harness digital technologies for modernising payment systems while safeguarding financial stability and promoting inclusivity. Through the adoption of advanced technologies and collaborative frameworks, Indonesia charts a path for digital financial transformation.

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

The Fintech Times

MARCH 18, 2025

The Cashflows collaboration will also allow Mswipe to operate as an acquirer in the UK, managing merchant onboarding, pricing, settlement terms, and processing, all while utilising their existing proprietary technology.

Facilitators

Fintech News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Founded in 2021, Partior utilizes blockchain technology to transform clearing and settlement, and redefine the way value moves globally. One of Singapore’s entries is Partior. Another company from Singapore featured on the list is Tazapay.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

MAY 1, 2025

This makes QNB the first bank in Qatar to use KDP’s blockchain deposits accounts for 24/7 settlement of their corporate flows, facilitating and automating on-demand multi-currency cross-border payments. Morgan FX Services to enable FX settlement on chain, an industry first, in USD, EUR and GBP, with plans to expand to more currencies.

Cross-Border Payments

Payments Dive

JULY 28, 2025

Recent failures, including frozen accounts, delayed settlements, and partner collapses, have highlighted what happens when businesses lack direct control over their financial infrastructure. You can unsubscribe at anytime. But this rise often came with trade-offs, namely, a reliance on third-party providers and fragmented systems.

Privacy

Fintech News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Payments will be settled instantly in Singapore dollars via a regulated stablecoin, providing merchants with immediate local currency settlements. Building a cross-border payment solution using blockchain technology to enable a seamless cross-border payment experience has been our mission since day one.”

Stablecoins

Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Nasdaq: INTU), the global financial technology platform behind TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, has announced a collaboration with Adyen , the fintech of choice for many of the world’s leading businesses, to help small and mid-market businesses (SMBs) more easily manage electronic payments. Intuit Inc.

Small Business

The Payments Association

JUNE 16, 2025

A survey of 125 UK retail merchants exploring how payment innovation, customer behaviour, and emerging technologies are shaping retail competitiveness. 39% of merchants plan to implement AI-driven fraud detection—nearly quadrupling current usage and signalling a strategic technology shift. Why is it important?

Innovation

The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Usage patterns differ, technological approaches diverge, and key challengesfrom privacy concerns to merchant adoptionremain unresolved. Das added that improved liquidity due to streamlined settlement processes will reduce the need for intermediary currencies and lower the transaction costs.

CBDC

The Payments Association

AUGUST 7, 2025

My EU Pay, an established financial technology firm specialising in cross-border payments and modern payments services, has announced the launch of its integrated m ass payouts solution designed to help businesses streamline and simplify bulk payments cross-border. This is more than just payouts—it’s a smarter way to move money.”

Cross-Border Payments

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

A payment processing system is a technology that facilitates the secure transfer of funds from a customer to a merchant. Modern digital payment processing systems Modern digital payment processing systems leverage cloud-based technology, APIs, and digital wallets to quickly and securely process transactions.

Process

The Fintech Times

MARCH 25, 2025

Providing next-generation technology is vital for enabling safe and efficient payment services. BPC has proven to be a reliable technology partner, delivering a robust solution that propels Somalias payment ecosystem to a new level.

Instant Payments

The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The global financial services firm will offer clients high-speed cross-border settlements through Wise Platform, Wises global payments infrastructure for banks. Using Wises local connectivity and payment technology, the integration aims to reduce implementation times while maintaining operational efficiency.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Despite this immense potential, cross-border payments in LAC remain hampered by inefficiencies in the traditional SWIFT-based correspondent banking system, marked by multiple intermediaries, settlement delays, and fees exceeding 6% for remittances for some corridors.

Cross-Border Payments

Payments Dive

JUNE 30, 2025

The trials next year cover three groups of plaintiffs that have been litigating against Visa and Mastercard for more than a decade and opted out of a prior multi-billion dollar settlement with the networks over damages. Talks on a revised settlement are ongoing. Talks on a revised settlement are ongoing. Last June, U.S.

Visa

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Trustly , the Swedish open banking payment solution provider, has revealed that UK holidaymakers spent 230 per cent more year-on-year on travel in January 2024 using account-to-account payment technology. The growth is based on Trustlys transaction data from more than 250 travel businesses across Europe that now use its technology.

Consumer

The Fintech Times

JULY 2, 2025

According to Do Payment, this ensures faster settlement times, lower costs and more direct integration with local banks and payment methods. Beating delays Valentina Brero, chief product officer at Do Payment, said settlement delays across the region have made faster alternatives essential. “In

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech Finance

JUNE 10, 2025

Ant International is a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider. Tencent is a multinational technology leader that develops a wide range of digital products and services, including Weixin/WeChat, China’s super app. .”

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