Real-time Payments

June, 2026

• 4 June

  Visa Pairs With Tech Firm Brale to Test Crypto Settlement

  

  Visa Inc. is setting the stage for stablecoin settlement in a partnership with Brale, whose technology enables businesses to introduce and operate digital currencies backed by fiat money. The collaboration, announced early Thursday, will allow the card network to test settlement with Brale’s SBC, a stablecoin backed by the U.S. …
• 3 June

  Mastercard Adds Settlement Windows Beyond Business Days

  

  Mastercard announced early Wednesday it plans to introduce settlement options including weekends, holidays, and at times during the day of the transaction. The new settlement windows will apply to both card-based fiat transactions and those involving cards linked to regulated stablecoins, the network said. The move would expand availability beyond …
• 3 June

  Fiserv SMB Index Unchanged and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/3/26

  

  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 …
• 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 …
• 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

• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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, …
• 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 …
• 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 …