Real-time Payments

October, 2025

• 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 …
• 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 …
• 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. …
• 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

• 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 …
• 29 September

  Corpay Teams With Mastercard on Cross-Border Payments, While PayOS Leverages Mastercard Agent Pay

  

  Corpay Inc., a provider of corporate payment and expense-management technology, has extended its partnership with Mastercard Inc. to enable corporations, small businesses, and financial institutions to make near real-time payments to 22 new markets across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The deal builds on the two …
• 29 September

  Swift’s Blockchain Addition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/29/25

  

  The international money-transfer system Swift said it plans to add what it calls a “blockchain-based shared ledger” to its technology stack in an effort to process instant cross-border transactions. Some 34 financial institutions from 16 countries are advising Swift on the project. The payments platform Lightspeed Commerce introduced Showroom, a service that provides merchants …
• 26 September

  Businesses Looking to Revamp Payment Strategies Will Embrace Digital Payments, an AFP Study Says

  

  As the popularity of digital payments increases, more businesses and organizations are looking to revamp their strategies to keep up with the trend, according to the Association for Financial Professionals’ 2025 Digital Payments Survey. Among the businesses and organizations surveyed for the triennial study, 76% expect to update their payments …
• 26 September

  Fiserv Acquires Smith Consulting Group and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/26/25

  

  Fiserv Inc. said it has acquired Smith Consulting Group, a Lake Mary, Fla.-based advisory service for community banks and credit unions. Terms were not disclosed. Reverb, a marketplace for musicians, has introduced its Reverb Wallet, which allows sellers to use marketplace earnings to buy new musical gear. The wallet was developed …
• 22 September

  Paysafe Picks up CMC and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/22/25

  

  Paysafe Ltd. will process payments for online-trading and investment platform CMC Markets under a newly announced agreement. Some 83% of U.S. executives think that by 2027 most payments will be assisted in some fashion by artificial intelligence, but 25% report they’re losing at least $1 million a year at online checkout, …