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Canada’s New Real-Time Rails Get Bank of America’s Attention
Canada’s New Real-Time Rails Get Bank of America’s Attention
June 25, 2025  |  Real-Time Payments

Watch more: Bank of America Equips Canadian Businesses for Real-Time Treasury Canada’s payments landscape is being recast at high speed, and the once-predictable routines of...

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Mastercard to Open Account-to-Account Instant Payments Sandbox to UK Banks
Mastercard to Open Account-to-Account Instant Payments Sandbox to UK Banks
June 24, 2025  |  Banking

Mastercard will begin allowing U.K. banks and financial institutions to access its fifth-generation account-to-account (A2A) instant payments via a sandbox later this year. This offering...

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Tensec Raises $12 Million to Promote Real-Time X-Border Payments
Tensec Raises $12 Million to Promote Real-Time X-Border Payments
June 23, 2025  |  Cross-border Payments

Cross-border payments FinTech Tensec raised $12 million in new funding. The financing will help the company provide payments and financial services for companies in the...

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Instant Payments and Stablecoins Demand Core Banking System Upgrades
Instant Payments and Stablecoins Demand Core Banking System Upgrades
June 20, 2025  |  Banking

For decades, banking infrastructure meant heavy metal — mainframes, on premises, in-house and legacy systems layered upon legacies. Batch systems and processing, and a set...

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Banks Target Business Clients With Instant Payments as Liquidity Tool
Banks Target Business Clients With Instant Payments as Liquidity Tool
June 20, 2025  |  Real-Time Payments

Faster payments are fundamentally changing how commercial banks and credit unions deliver value and differentiate themselves. This shift extends beyond mere transaction speed; it’s about...

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Syria Marks First SWIFT Transfer Since Its Civil War Began
Syria Marks First SWIFT Transfer Since Its Civil War Began
June 19, 2025  |  Global Payments

Syria has reportedly made its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT system since 2011. As Reuters noted in its report Thursday (June 19), that...

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Mastercard and Thailand’s NITMX Team to Promote Real-Time Payments
Mastercard and Thailand’s NITMX Team to Promote Real-Time Payments
June 17, 2025  |  Partnerships

Mastercard says it is expanding its relationship with National ITMX (NITMX), the Thailand-based developer and service provider of electronic payments. This effort, the company announced...

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Visa and eTip Team to Help Hospitality Workers Get Tipped Faster
Visa and eTip Team to Help Hospitality Workers Get Tipped Faster
June 16, 2025  |  Real-Time Payments

Visa has teamed with eTip, a digital tipping platform for the hospitality and service industries. The collaboration is designed to help deliver funds directly to...

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PayPal Turns Online Ads Into ‘Buy Now Opportunities’
PayPal Turns Online Ads Into ‘Buy Now Opportunities’
June 16, 2025  |  eCommerce

PayPal says it has developed a way to turn online ads into merchant storefronts. “Storefront Ads” uses PayPal’s transaction graph and payment rails to turn...

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