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The Federal Reserve said the number of participating organizations in FedNow, its real-time payments service, recently surpassed 1,500. Euronet Worldwide Inc. said it will use the digital asset technology from Fireblocks to integrate stablecoin technology into its global payments infrastructure. Point-of-sale technology developer PAX Technology Inc., based in China but a prominent supplier in …
October, 2025
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16 October
Faster Payments Gain Momentum at Nacha And The Clearing House
Faster payments on the automated clearing house network and on real-time payments systems are gaining momentum, according to statistics released Thursday by Nacha, the standards body for the automated clearing house system, and by the Real Time Payments network, operated by 22 of the world’s biggest banks. The total value …
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15 October
SpotOn Integrates Visa Direct in Its Tip Payout App
SpotOn Transact LLC has integrated Visa Direct, a faster-payments service, into its DayCheck earned-tip payment app. The integration will allow restaurant owners to simplify tip payouts and enable restaurant employees to move tips directly to their bank accounts. San Francisco-based SpotOn says restaurant operaters are squeezed by working capital challenges …
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14 October
Visa Launches Trusted Agent, an Agentic Commerce Protocol
Visa Inc. entered the agentic-commerce fray early Tuesday with the launch of Trusted Agent, a protocol developed in collaboration with cloud-computing connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. The protocol is part of an overall strategy to make agent-initiated transactions as seamless and secure “as any consumer-initiated transaction today,” the card network tells …
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10 October
Ripple Gains an Investor As BIT Mining Pushes AI for Crypto for Blockchain
Cryptocurrency picked up more momentum in payments Thursday as C1 Fund Inc. bought shares in Ripple Inc. C1, which focuses on digital assets and blockchain technology, did not announce the extent of the investment or other financial terms. Ripple is well-known in payments for its XRP ledger, a decentralized blockchain …
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9 October
Stablecoins Remain Hot As Banks Vie For Issuance And Related Services
Action in the payments industry on stablecoin plans appears to be perking up since President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law this summer, legislation whose rules are expected to spark more action by mainstream payments players on issuing and accepting the digital currency. One example emerged Wednesday with …
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6 October
Global’s Genius for Education Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/6/25
Global Payments Inc. announced a version of its Genius point-of-sale payments platform is available for colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, including campus dining. The U.S. Faster Payments Council will work with the Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc., a developer of standards for the U.S. financial industry, to speed development …
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3 October
Instant Payments Use Cases Evolving and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/3/25
Loan payouts are picking up steam as a use case for instant payments, joining such applications as earned wage access, wallet funding, marketplace/gaming, and peer-to-peer payments, according to the 2025 U.S. Instant Payments Adopting Quantitative Study from the U.S. Faster Payments Council. Respondents to the study serve more than 90% of U.S. …
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1 October
Merrick Relaunches Ollo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/1/25
The credit card issuer Merrick Bank has re-launched its Ollo credit card with a refreshed design and new technology. The card was first issued in 2017 as a product for U.S. consumers facing challenges in obtaining a credit card. Valor PayTech, a 5-year-old provider of point-of-sale technology for merchants, announced it has …
September, 2025
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30 September
Visa Heralds a Pilot for Cross Border Payments Funded by Stablecoins
Visa Inc. announced early Tuesday it will launch a cross-border payments service that will rely on stablecoins to fund transfers. The service, meant ultimately as an improvement on existing transfers that require users to commit capital in advance, will run on the payments company’s Visa Direct real-time payments rails. It …
