Real-time Payments

November, 2025

• 5 November

  FIS Welcomes Its Imminent Post-Worldpay Era, With a Stress on Bank Tech

  

  FIS Inc. historically has been known for its banking technology and for its merchant processing. With its sale of the merchant processor Worldpay to Global Payments Inc., the Jacksonville, Fla-based company has been venturing into other new business opportunities, including artificial intelligence and stablecoins, its top management indicated early Wednesday. …

October, 2025

• 31 October

  VerifiedX’s Butterfly; BitRail Expands Its Funding Option; Bitcoin Bancorp Integrates Technology for ATMs

  

  The VerifiedX Foundation has launched Butterfly, a social-payment and commerce platform that allows users to send and receive VFX, the native VerifiedX cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, USDT, and USDC coins—instantly via text message, email, or any social-media handle. The new service combines the ease of the Venmo and Zelle peer-to-peer payments networks with the sovereignty of blockchain …
• 29 October

  Visa’s Boss Cites Stablecoins And Agentic Commerce as Growth Drivers

  

  An increasing focus on stablecoin initiatives, agentic commerce, and payments innovation helped propel Visa Inc. to a strong 2025 fiscal year and helped the card network to meet its goal of becoming a “hyperscaler” for companies in the payment ecosystem, Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney told analysts during Visa’s 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 …