Real-time Payments

June, 2025

• 13 June

  Stablecoins Get a Boost As Walmart And Amazon Look to Adopt Them

  

  Stablecoins are starting to move beyond niche status. Both Walmart Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are investigating whether to issue the digital currency in the U.S. market, The Wall Street Journal reported early Friday. Details are sketchy. Neither megamerchant responded to queries about the matter from Digital Transactions News. It also …
• 11 June

  BofA’s RTP Values Take Off and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/11/25

  

  In the first six weeks after The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC on Feb. 9 raised its real-time payments transaction limit from $1 million to $10 million, transactions of more than $1 million accounted for more than half the value of all real-time payments processed at Bank of America Corp., one of …
• 9 June

  Cross River Bank Adds Request for Payment on RTP

  

  Plaid Inc., the open-banking technology provider, will be the first Cross River Bank client to enable a much-desired request-for-payment function for real-time payments, Cross River announced Monday. As part of The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s RTP network, request for payment allows businesses to send a secure request for payment, …
• 6 June

  ‘Buy Now, Pay Never’ Debuts for Crypto, While Circle Soars on Wall Street

  

  As cryptocurrency such as stablecoins inch toward mainstream acceptance, some platforms are starting to adapt slogans borrowed from the established world of payments. In the latest example, a new San Francisco-based company called NeverPay announced early Friday a program called Buy Now, Pay Never, which it says will let users …

May, 2025

• 30 May

  Congress Mulls a Tax on Cross Border Remittances

  

  Several organizations representing the payments industry sent a letter to Congress late Wednesday urging lawmakers not to pass legislation that will tax cross-border remittances originated in the United States and will require money transmitters to gather identity and citizenship verification data from the sender. The bill has advanced to the …
• 30 May

  Flexa Teams with Nexus Wallet and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/30/25

  

  Flexa, a payments platform based on digital assets, said it is working with wallet provider Nexus Wallet to simplify payments via the cryptocurrency Litecoin. The partnership is active at 41,000 retail locations in North America, the parties say. Stablecoin-based payments platform Stable Sea launched Stable Sea Terminal, said to be capable of …
• 29 May

  Bluevine Launches Payment Links and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/29/25

  

  Bluevine, a banking platform for small businesses, launched Invoicing and Payment Links, aimed at allowing businesses to receive payments directly in bank accounts via a range of payment methods. The buy now, pay later platform Affirm Inc. said it is expanding its partnership with the merchant Williams-Sonoma Inc. to Canada. Besides Williams-Sonoma, …
• 28 May

  Global Offloading Payroll Unit with Thredd and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/28/25

  

  Global Payments Inc. has agreed to sell its payroll unit, Heartland Payroll Solutions, to insurance fintech Acrisure LLC for $1.1 billion. The business serves more than 50,000 clients. Castles Technology said it is working with PXP, a payments platform, to offer Android point-of-sale devices to merchants regardless of size. Some 73% of …
• 27 May

  P2P Brands Can Gain Wallet Share Despite Consumers’ Loyalty to a Primary Brand, J.D. Power Finds

  

  While consumers remain extremely loyal to their primary peer-to-peer payment brand, opportunities exist for other brands to gain share of wallet as a secondary brand, as consumers use more than one P2P service to ensure they can send and receive money across their entire social network, a recent study by …
• 27 May

  How Worldpay, OwlTing, and PSQ Are Moving on Stablecoins

  

  The big processor Worldpay said early Tuesday it will work with BVNK, a stablecoin-technology company, to provide to Worldpay clients what the companies say will be “nearly instant global payouts” in stablecoins. The service will be available to clients in the United States and Europe starting in the second half …