Real-Time Payments

Real-Time Payments
Real-Time Payments Could Add $19.3 Billion to Argentina’s GDP
July 02, 2026

Real-time payments in South America have moved well beyond proof of concept. They’re becoming the financial backbone of entire economies, and the numbers speak for themselves. The evidence starts with Brazil’s Pix, which has become one of the most consequential instant payment platforms in the...

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Core Banking’s New Mission Is Keeping Up With Instant Expectations
July 02, 2026

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Galileo’s Prashant Shah For years, core banking systems were viewed as essential but largely invisible infrastructure. They maintained account balances, processed deposits and withdrawals, and served as the system of record behind the customer relationship. Today, the same systems...

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Liquidity Management Becomes the Next Test for Real-Time Payments
June 30, 2026

Real-time payment networks have changed the speed at which money moves. The greater challenge now lies in ensuring institutions can support that movement without creating new operational pressures around funding, risk and cash positioning. The expansion of The Clearing House’s RTP® Network and the Federal...

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Robinhood Pushes Brokerages to End the Waiting Game
June 29, 2026

Watch more: Michael Silver of Robinhood Consumers managing their finances through digital channels increasingly assume that money will appear in accounts quickly, with visibility into when it can be used. For investment platforms, that expectation carries operational consequences. The pace of deposits and withdrawals influences...

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53% of Bankers Say Security Drives Real-Time Payments
June 29, 2026

Real-time payments are starting to look less like a faster delivery truck and more like a digital receipt that arrives before anyone has to ask where the money went. That is the point inside “Beyond Speed: The Strategic Value of Real-Time Payments,” the March 2026...

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GigSafe Taps U.S. Bank to Deliver Instant Payments to Delivery Drivers
June 26, 2026

Companies using GigSafe’s compliance and payments platform built for regulated delivery and logistics operators can now make payments within the platform. This capability is enabled by GigSafe’s adoption of U.S. Bank’s embedded payment solutions, which allow payments to occur seamlessly within the company’s existing platform, U.S. Bank said in a...

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53% of Businesses Plan RTP Adoption as Payment Habits Shift
June 19, 2026

The biggest obstacle to real-time B2B payments may be that the old system is not broken enough. That was one of the more practical takeaways from the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Ready and Willing: B2B Payments Are Headed for Real-Time Rails. Here’s How They’re Getting There,”...

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FedNow Cross-Border Plan Tests Real-Time Payments Infrastructure
June 18, 2026

The Federal Reserve’s proposal to expand FedNow beyond its current domestic limitations arrives at a moment when demand for faster cross-border payments is colliding with the realities of compliance, correspondent banking and payment-system design. The proposal would amend Regulation J to allow FedNow participants to...

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The Back Office Is Holding Real-Time Payments Hostage
June 17, 2026

B2B payments have gone real-time, and that’s made transaction speed table stakes for both buyers and suppliers. But all the speed in the world means nothing if the workflows and data context surrounding B2B payments can’t then integrate seamlessly into core enterprise decision-making systems. The...