Real-time Payments

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, …
• 18 September

  MoneyGram Looks to Stablecoins for Cross-Border Transfers

  

  MoneyGram International Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a mobile app featuring a U.S. dollar-backed stored-value account that will work with stablecoins as well as fiat currencies. The move, which comes as interest in stablecoins heats up in the mainstream payments market, represents a sweeping update of the remittance company’s mobile technology and …
• 17 September

  Adyen’s LVMH Unification Plan and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/17/25

  

  Payments processor Adyen NV said it is working with the luxury-goods retailer LVMH to unify the company’s payments systems across all of its brands. LVMH operates more than 1,000 stores globally. Payments processor Thredd announced it will support an expansion into the United States and Latin America by Reap, a provider of cards backed …
• 10 September

  FedNow Announces a $10 Million Transaction Limit, Set for November

  

  The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it will raise the transaction limit on FedNow transactions tenfold, to $10 million, effective in November. Launched in July 2023, FedNow is a real-time payments system linking more than 1,400 U.S. financial institutions. The move will have come nine months after the rival Real Time …
• 10 September

  Global’s Genius in the UK and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/10/25

  

  Global Payments Inc. announced it has launched its Genius processing platform in the United Kingdom, starting with quick-service and fast-casual restaurants. Genius for restaurants, which launched in May, and Genius for Retail consolidate 16 point-of-sale products into a platform that is marketed internationally. Mastercard Inc. announced it is working with Stripe, Google, and …