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...
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...
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...
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,”...
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...
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...
A collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa Direct, “The Power of Now: Moving At The Speed Of Life: Why Real-Time Payments Matter For Healthcare Insurance Payouts,” examines why healthcare insurance payouts remain slower than many consumers expect, even after insurance has approved a claim. The...
Gambling/prediction market-focused banking platform EDGE Markets has raised $29.2 million in new funding. CEO Seni Thomas shared the news of the company’s Series A round in an interview with CNBC Monday (June 8), while also announcing a new real-time payments system. “We have 24-hour markets … and you can’t get money...
Bank of America plans to launch a new cross-border real-time payments tool later this year, according to a Thursday (June 4) press release provided to PYMNTS. The solution, which will roll out in the third quarter, will let corporate, commercial and financial institution clients send...