Real-time Payments

October, 2025

• 29 October

  Worldpay And Agentic Commerce and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/29/25

  

  The big processor Worldpay announced it will support the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a standard that allows artificial-intelligence agents to work with buyers and businesses to complete transactions. The processor Fiserv Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $5.26 billion, a 1% year-on-year increase. Year-to-date revenue rose 4.6% to $15.9 billion. Net income for the quarter totaled …
• 24 October

  Alacriti Adds Visa Direct for Real Time Payments

  

  Alacriti, a provider of cloud-native payment and money-movement services, has integrated Visa Direct into its Orbipay Payments Hub. The integration will enable financial institutions in North America to provide card-based real-time payments, even if they do not have a connection to a real-time payments hub, such as the RTP network …
• 24 October

  Will Zelle’s Stablecoin Venture ‘Reinvent Cross-Border Payments for a New Age’?

  

  Early Warning Services LLC announced early Friday its Zelle payments network will expand internationally by using stablecoins for cross-border transactions.  Many details of the new initiative, such as expected volumes and fees, were not immediately available, but the move is aimed at offering faster international payments capability “to Zelle customers …
• 24 October

  Zip Expands Stripe Partnership and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/24/25

  

  Zip Co. Ltd. said its payments services are available for U.S. merchants through checkout services managed by Stripe Inc., including Elements, Checkout, and Payment Links. Fintech Everyday People Financial Corp. has agreed to manage network-branded card and digital-wallet programs offered by XTM Inc., a provider of real-time payments and earned-wage access, in a deal …
• 23 October

  CardFlight’s Tap to Pay Move and other Digital Transactions News from 10/23/25

  

  CardFlight Inc. announced Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available to client merchants using Worldpay for processing. Rokt Corp., an e-commerce marketing-technology company, said PayPal Holdings Inc. has started to use its services to support advertisements that appear on “thank you” pages following peer-to-peer payments. PayNearMe Inc. said it has rolled …
• 21 October

  How Flexa’s Venture With Bealls Could Be Key for Crypto

  

  Flexa Network Inc., a payments provider based on digital currencies, has agreed to support in-store cryptocurrency acceptance at Bealls Inc., operator of more than 660 stores in 22 states under Bealls and other brand names. The move, announced Monday afternoon, represents one of the largest planned deployments of in-store crypto …
• 20 October

  Kroger Picks Worldpay and other Digital Transactions News from 10/20/25

  

  Worldpay Inc. will operate as the exclusive processor for the grocery company Kroger under an agreement announced early Monday. The agreement embraces in-store, online, and mobile transactions for Kroger, which operates more than 2,700 stores across 35 states. Worldpay is in the process of being acquired from FIS Inc. by Global Payments …
• 17 October

  MoonPay Launches MoonPay Commerce; Ripple Pays $1 Billion for GTreasury

  

  MoonPay USA LLC has launched MoonPay Commerce, a platform that enables merchants to accept cryptocurrency for products, services, and subscriptions. MoonPay built the platform using technology from its acquisition of Helio earlier this year. Developers and merchants can integrate MoonPay Commerce, which is already being used by 6,000 merchants, using …
• 17 October

  FedNow Surpasses 1,500 Participants and other Digital Transactions News from 10/17/25

  

  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 …
• 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 …