Cross-Border Takes Center Stage as Real-Time Rails Connect the World

Real-Time Payments World Map - May 2025

Real-time payments are reshaping the global financial landscape, with banks and FinTechs rolling out instant transaction capabilities across regions from North America to Europe and Latin America. The “Real-Time Payments World Map” — a collaboration with The Clearing House — spotlights the latest cross-border innovations, strategic partnerships and new features driving faster, more inclusive payments worldwide.

Inside the May World Map
  • Chicago-based Lakeside Bank is upgrading its payments operations by adopting a cloud-based payments-as-a-service (PaaS) platform from Volante Technologies.
  • Tech-driven business bank Viva.com is rapidly expanding its support for near-instant money movement by extending its use of Mastercard Move to 24 European countries, including the United Kingdom.
  • Italy’s Bancomat, Spain’s Bizum and Portugal’s MB WAY are driving a transformative shift in cross-border transactions through the European Payments Alliance (EuroPA), simplifying peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers for more than 50 million users.

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