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Fiserv Inc. said its Small Business Index for May remained flat at 144 as small-business transactions dropped 2.4% year-over-year while average tickets rose 3.1%. The drop in transactions marked the seventh consecutive month of declining foot traffic. Fireblocks, a payments platform based on digital assets, launched Fireblocks Flow, stablecoin-acceptance technology aimed …
June, 2026
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2 June
Eye on Faster Payments: Payfinia’s RTP Integration; Aeropay’s Jack Henry Tie-in
Work on growing the real-time payments ecosystem goes on with Payfinia completing an integration with The Clearing House Payments Co LLC’s RTP network and Aeropay making an integration with Jack Henry & Associates Inc. to boost its pay-by-bank service. Portland, Ore.-based Payfinia says its work with TCH, which launched the …
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1 June
Aurora Rebrands as Flute and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/1/26
Aurora Payments has renamed itself Flute and launched a payments platform that it says offers working capital, transaction reporting, and merchant servicing, along with payments, in a single account. Thunes said it has been selected by Canada-based payout platform Trolley to enable an expansion of Trolley’s international capabilities, including real-time payments to more …
May, 2026
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29 May
Rego Updates Family Wallet Platform and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/29/26
Rego Payment Architectures Inc., whose technology allows financial institutions to offer banking services to families, announced an update to its Family Wallet platform to give parents control of children’s accounts directly through Rego’s platform. Fresha, a payments platform specializing in beauty and wellness businesses, said it is widening the capabilities …
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27 May
Nium Pairs with Circle to Speed Local Payments Routing
Nium Pte. Ltd., a provider of cross-border payments technology, is working with Circle Internet in a collaboration using stablecoins for settlement and local currency for last-mile delivery of country-to-country transactions. The project aims to solve what the partners say is a longstanding problem—fast payments that can slow considerably when it’s …
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20 May
Plaid’s Payment Assurance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/20/26
Open-banking specialist Plaid Inc. unveiled Plaid Guaranteed Payments, a bank payment service. Plaid said the service will evaluate each transaction in real time and return an approval decision within milliseconds. If Plaid approves the transaction, it will guarantee the settlement. If the payment fails, it will cover the loss and handle recovery, …
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19 May
NMI’s Latest Deal Snags A2A Platform Dwolla
Network Merchants Inc. said Tuesday it has acquired Dwolla Inc., a payments-acceptance technology provider with experience in real-time payments, open banking, and account-to-account technology and serving more than 400 clients. The combination creates a company processing nearly $700 billion in transaction volume annually, the parties say, a move that is …
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15 May
How Stablecoins Are Crashing the Agentic Commerce Party
It was probably only a matter of time before agentic commerce embraced cryptocurrency. Technology platform Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network early Friday announced W Agent, which the Singapore-based company calls a “new AI Agent skill.” That means the agents can find merchants, enter orders, and transact in stablecoins “end-to-end,” as the …
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14 May
RTP Hits Another Banner Real-Time Payment Mark
RTP, the real-time payments network operated by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, set another record volume day with 2.27 million transactions processed valued at $8.62 billion on May 1. Its most recent prior record day was Feb. 13 when it processed 2.05 million real-time transactions. The Clearing House attributes …
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13 May
A Crucial Stablecoin Bill Faces a Senate Committee Vote
With the Senate Banking Committee scheduled to take a vote Thursday on whether crucial stablecoin legislation should advance to the full Senate floor, the time for debating the bill’s pros and cons is drawing to a close. The 309-page Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which would set rules for digital …
