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AWS Says Banks Face a 24/7 Payments Balancing Act

AWS Says Banks Face a 24/7 Payments Balancing Act
AWS Says Banks Face a 24/7 Payments Balancing Act
October 05, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Moving money faster has compressed the time banks have to answer a more complicated question: How should this particular payment move? A transaction can arrive...

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Free Instant Payments Still Need a Revenue Model
Free Instant Payments Still Need a Revenue Model
October 02, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Instant payments may look free to the person tapping “send,” but somebody must pay to keep the money moving around the clock. News surrounding India’s...

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Europe’s Payee Checks Set the Pace as US Plans Take Shape
Europe’s Payee Checks Set the Pace as US Plans Take Shape
October 01, 2026  |  Cross-border Payments

A payment moving from one country to another passes through banks, clearing systems and payment networks that operate under different rules. The recipient information used...

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Bank of America Launches Cross-Border Real-Time Payments Solution
Bank of America Launches Cross-Border Real-Time Payments Solution
September 29, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Bank of America’s Cross-Border Real-Time Payments solution has completed its first transaction, the bank said in a Tuesday (Sept. 29) press release emailed to PYMNTS....

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FedNow Opens Door to Cross-Border Instant Payments
FedNow Opens Door to Cross-Border Instant Payments
September 24, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

The Federal Reserve is taking its instant payment system global. Federal Reserve Financial Services said Wednesday (Sept. 23) that the FedNow® Service will soon support...

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ECB Explores Linking Europe’s Instant Payment Rail With Brazil’s Pix
ECB Explores Linking Europe’s Instant Payment Rail With Brazil’s Pix
September 24, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

The European Central Bank (ECB) will assess the feasibility of interlinking the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform with Brazil’s Pix instant payment system,...

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5 Ways Millennials’ Cash-Flow Habits Are Shaping Payments
5 Ways Millennials’ Cash-Flow Habits Are Shaping Payments
September 24, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Millennials’ financial lives are shaping how they receive, spend and manage money, creating new opportunities for payment providers to make transactions faster and more useful....

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Everyone Is Selling CFOs Real-Time Finance. Most of It Isn’t.
Everyone Is Selling CFOs Real-Time Finance. Most of It Isn’t.
September 22, 2026  |  CFO

The term “real time” is becoming to corporate finance what “AI-powered” became to enterprise software: Ubiquitous enough to sound meaningful, but elastic enough to mean...

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