RTP Tops $1.3 Trillion and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/4/25
Digital Transactions News staff
December 4, 2025
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Issuing/Originating, Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Point-of-sale
- The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC said its RTP instant payments network topped $1.3 trillion in total payments in 2025 through November, up 428% from 2024. TCH said RTP transactions account for 98% of all bank-to-bank instant payments.
- PAR Technology Corp. announced Abelardo’s Mexican Fresh, a restaurant chain with more than 50 locations, has opted for PAR’s PAR Pay service as well as its point-of-sale, marketing, and processing technology.
- Identity platform Trulioo joined the Google Agent Payments Protocol initiative, a service the search engine giant launched in September to authenticate consumers who initiate a payment using an artificial intelligence agent when shopping online.
- Vanco Payment Solutions Inc., a provider of digital-payments services for churches, schools, and nonprofits, said it has acquired ACS Technologies, a developer of church-management software. Terms were not disclosed.
- Money transfer network MoneyGram said it is working with digital assets infrastructure platform Fireblocks to enable stablecoin-based settlement and multi-asset treasury service in the MoneyGram retail and digital footprint.
- Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network announced a technology upgrade now allows it to support dollar and euro transactions as well as transactions in five prominent stablecoins.
- Stablecoin startup Fin announced it raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital.
- Bilt, a payments and rewards provider catering to renters, said tenants who also have the United MileagePlus cobranded card from Chase, can now earn two miles per $1 spent when they pay their rent through Bilt.
- Visa Inc. and its Pismo card-technology unit will work with neobank Circle Asia Technologies to launch an AI-based credit card in Vietnam, starting next year, the parties announced.
- Transact + CBORD, whose technologies include payments processing for college campuses, said it has appointed payments veteran Greg Brown chief executive, starting Jan. 5. The company will also rebrand as Illumia in March.
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