January 15, 2025
This Week in Web3 Was All About Stablecoins
Fresh innovations are taking shape across the cryptocurrency and blockchain landscape. From stablecoins gaining traction as mainstream payment mechanisms to increasing regulatory scrutiny and advancements in blockchain interoperability, the industry’s...
January 14, 2025
The State of the Stablecoin as a Payment Mechanism
For years, crypto has had its adherents and investors. But it was never truly taken seriously by the traditional financial sector and its composite institutions, the U.S. regulatory desert aside....
January 14, 2025
Understanding How Banks Actually Move B2B-Sized Money in Real Time
Better payments help power better businesses. But across the B2B landscape, where payments can often entail intricate workflows, such as multi-entity approval processes, compliance checks, and liquidity management to name...
January 14, 2025
Thunes Adds PayPal’s Hyperwallet to Cross-Border Payments Network
Money movement platform Thunes says it has added PayPal’s Hyperwallet to its Direct Global Network. With this movement, Hyperwallet customers can send money in real time to more than 450 million mobile wallets and bank...
January 14, 2025
How Payments Investigations Can Cement Customers’ Relationships With Banks
Untold millions of payments representing trillions of dollars wind their way across the globe each and every day. And for the most part, the funds flow seamlessly — where as...
January 14, 2025
This Bank CEO Says Stablecoins Are the Newest Payment Rail
Meeting customer needs is an imperative for financial institutions aiming to stay competitive. But innovations often run into the elephant in the room: outdated and incompatible banking tech stacks. Offering...
January 13, 2025
Banking Circle to Acquire Australian Settlements Limited
Banking Circle said Monday (Jan. 13) that it plans to accelerate its expansion into Australia with an acquisition of Australian Settlements Limited (ASL). The acquisition will add ASL’s capabilities as an...
January 13, 2025
U.S. Watchdog Makes Final Stablecoin Push Before Trump Takes Office
The rise of stablecoins was one of crypto’s biggest stories in 2024. As the Friday (Jan. 10) request for comment on new regulations by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
January 13, 2025
Citi Says Developer Portal Is Bank’s Innovation Accelerator
As platforms, corporates and financial institutions scale and bring personalized financial products and solutions to their end customers, application programming interfaces (APIs) are proving to be a critical lifeline. They...
Real-time payments in the EU are on the verge of achieving their instantaneous promise, with a new rule from the European Council requiring instant fund transfers to be available within 10 seconds. In this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores this development along with other advancements unfolding across the global real-time payments landscape.
Many eCommerce merchants in the United States seek growth in international markets but encounter significant friction in cross-border transactions. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, “Cross-Border Sales and the Challenge of Failed Payments,” a collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from 300 executives to identify the key challenges of cross-border payments and how to solve them.