Real-time Payments

August, 2025

• 26 August

  VersaBank’s Crypto Pilot  and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/26/25

  

  VersaBank USA started a pilot for its USDVBs, tokenized versions of actual cash deposits at the bank. The move follows a similar pilot by the bank in Canada. VersaBank says it will seek a non-objection statement from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency before launching the product commercially. Thread …
• 25 August

  Authvia Adds Visa Direct to Its Text to Pay Platform

  

  Authvia, a provider of text-to-pay and conversational-commerce technology for independent software vendors, independent sales organizations, banks, and merchants, has integrated Visa Direct into its TXT2PAY platform. The integration allows merchants and businesses to initiate outbound disbursements, as well as receive inbound payments, in real time. As a result, merchants will …
• 21 August

  Q2’s Real-Time Payments Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/21/25

  

  Technology provider Q2 Holdings Inc. announced Open Payment Network is its first partner to offer integration for Q2 Instant Payments Manager, a product aimed at banks looking to manage real-time payment workflows. Canada-based payments provider Corpay Inc. announced its cross-border platform has become the official foreign-exchange partner to the New Zealand Football club. Klear.ai, …
• 20 August

  Gr4vy’s Airline Move and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/20/25

  

  The payments-technology firm Gr4vy Inc. said it will work with Datalex, a technology provider for airline e-commerce, to enable payment orchestration capabilities for the airline industry. Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said it has closed on an acquisition of revenue agreements and customer relationships owned by Boom Commerce, a Priority reseller. Priority said it expects …
• 19 August

  Nuvei’s Zuora Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/19/25

  

  The processor Nuvei Corp. announced an integration with Zuora Inc., a technology developer for subscription businesses, to provide payments technology for Zuora clients. The subscription market globally is forecast to reach $996 billion in volume by 2028, compared to $593 billion last year, according to Juniper Research data cited by Nuvei and …
• 18 August

  No Summer Holiday for RTP As Volume Increases

  

  Taking time off and getting away may be top-of-mind for many in the summer, but the payments system has little time for that, especially real-time payments networks. Real-time payments over the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, increased over both the Memorial Day and July 4 weekends, …
• 18 August

  Payoneer Partners with Stripe and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/18/25

  

  U.S. payments fintech Payoneer Inc. announced it will work with Stripe Inc. to offer an improved Payoneer Checkout service for small and medum-size merchants, starting in the Asia-Pacific region. The collaboration will enable more payment methods, including buy now, pay later from Affirm Inc. and Klarna AB and digital wallets from Apple …
• 15 August

  Routable Adds FedNow to Speed Accounts Payable

  

  Routable, a San Francisco-based accounts-payable platform provider, has expanded its support for real-time payments through connectivity to FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s 2-year-old real-time payments platform.  With the addition of FedNow, Routable says its customers have the ability to send instant payments to as many as 85% of bank accounts in …
• 15 August

  Booking.com’s New Rewards Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/15/25

  

  Booking.com has launched its Genius Rewards Visa Signature credit card, offering travel-related rewards and issued by First Electronic Bank. Xsolla, a commerce company for game developers, said its Pay Station platform now supports pay by bank in the U.S. market and the Affirm buy now, pay later service in the U.S. …
• 12 August

  Stablecoin Giant Circle Launches Arc for Cross-Border Flows

  

  Stablecoin giant Circle Internet Group Inc. early Tuesday unveiled Arc, a new payments platform aimed at major money flows, including foreign exchange. The new service, part of the existing Circle Payments Network, will speed up foreign exchange while offering what the company calls “sub-second instant finality” in settlement, the company …