Real-time Payments

August, 2026

• 13 August

  A Year In, Zelle tag Enrollment Surpasses 1 Million Small Businesses

  

  Just one year since its launch, the Zelle tag, a personalized identifier to make it easier for small businesses to accept Zelle payments, is in use with more than 1 million small businesses and has an average daily enrollment of 3,500 in the first two quarters of 2026, Zelle says. …
• 12 August

  SMBs Readily Employ AI and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/12/26

  

  A survey from Stax Payments found that 80% of small and midsize business executives have used artificial intelligence services for work they otherwise would have hired an advisor to complete. The survey, conducted in June, was of 500 U.S. business executives. Sionic said its Instant Bank Pay and Fraud Detection service, which it announced last …
• 7 August

  Pay-By-Bank Enters Agentic Commerce with a Sionic and Agentix Tie-up

  

  Account-to-account payments are about to meet the agentic-commerce age with a new partnership between Sionic, a bank-to-bank payments provider, and Agentix, an agentic-commerce technology firm. In the deal, Atlanta-based Sionic will supply an artificial-intelligence shopping agent with its Bank Perks to enable payment directly from a user’s bank account. Bank …
• 4 August

  Stablecoins Come to Money Transfers Via Western Union’s Stablecard

  

  The Western Union Co. and payments-technology developer Rain have launched a digital wallet and credit card that can enable money transfers using stablecoins from a card-linked account. Called Stablecard, the product works with the stablecoin USDPT, also introduced Tuesday. Stablecard is going live in 37 markets, according to Western Union, …

July, 2026

• 30 July

  Another Banner Quarter for ACH Transactions

  

  Same-day automated clearing house transactions continue to surge, reaching $1.3 trillion in value in the second quarter, says Nacha. That’s up from $980 billion in value in the year-ago quarter. That value came on 435.7 million transactions, a 29.3% increase from 337 million same-day ACH transactions in the 2025 second …
• 30 July

  Mastercard Focuses on Gains in Crypto And Agentic Commerce

  

  As payments executives wrestle with fast-moving trends in AI-driven commerce and in cryptocurrency, particularly stablecoins, card networks are gearing up to win more business in both markets. And network executives see those trends accelerating, creating opportunities to grab market share if they act fast. “Agentic commerce is the next evolution …
• 27 July

  Use Case Evolution Is One Factor in RTP’s Instant Payments Growth

  

  Business-to-business payments were one of the first use cases for instant payments when the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC debuted in 2017. As more businesses and consumers want to use such services, the use cases are evolving, with digital wallets—like PayPal and Venmo—now being the largest …
• 22 July

  Zero Hash And Marqeta Work to Issue Cards Backed by Stablecoins

  
• 21 July

  How Stablecoins Are Becoming Currency for ‘Everyday Transactions’

  

  Stablecoins have been on payments companies’ radar screens for years, but only recently has the digital currency gained the credibility needed to move processors, merchants, and users toward using stablecoins for everyday payments. The latest example of this emerged early Tuesday with an announcement from Mesh, a San Francisco-based crypto …
• 17 July

  Visa’s Latest Crypto Venture Is the Visa Stablecoin Platform

  

  Visa Inc. has been involved in various stages of stablecoin processing for the last three years, but this week the card network stepped up its involvement with the cryptocurrency, launching Visa Stablecoin Platform. The new service is starting out in beta testing with “select clients,” Visa says, as companies determine …