Payments infrastructure provider Acquired.com has launched a partnership with Visa in the U.K. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Jan. 21), is designed to bring to market Visa A2A, an account-to-account (A2) payment solution, for recurring and variable payments. “Recurring payments underpin lending, insurance, utilities, and collections; but while...
Mastercard has launched a service designed to protect account-to-account (A2A) payments against fraud. Mastercard A2A Protect, announced Monday and launching first in the U.K., is designed to offer fraud prevention technology and a “new clear” dispute resolution framework. “With Fast A2A comes fast fraud, and...
B2B payments company Mondu has launched an instant account-to-account (A2A) payment solution for B2B eCommerce called Pay Now. Designed to help modernize B2B payments in Europe, Pay Now enables buyers to pay directly from their bank accounts, while merchants get streamlined reconciliation and risk and...
HSBC became a strategic investor in Token.io to help accelerate the growth of Token.io’s pay-by-bank infrastructure. The move extends a collaboration in which Token.io has powered the HSBC Open Payments solution since 2019, the companies said in a Wednesday (June 4) press release. Token.io also...
June 02, 2025
A burst of announcements, from Visa’s “buyer-protected” account-to-account (A2A) service in the U.K. to fresh funding for variable recurring payments, has pushed bank-to-bank transfers back onto corporate agendas. Yet the vocabulary can feel like alphabet soup. Below is a glossary that puts the main terms in context, shows how they differ and notes where each […]
February 26, 2024
Amid consumer hesitation to adopt account-to-account (A2A) payments, cash-back incentives could go a long way toward driving use. By the Numbers The PYMNTS Intelligence study “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover:...
November 14, 2023
The business payments landscape was stable for decades, Form3 CEO Mike Walters told Karen Webster. Regular ACH payments were the norm, and any pain points and frictions were rooted in...
June 20, 2023
Driven as they are by payment choice, many consumers like the idea of account-to-account (A2A) transfers, known by several other names including pay by bank — but what’s missing is...
May 19, 2026
Embedded payments infrastructure company NMI has acquired account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure provider Dwolla. The deal, announced Tuesday (May 19) combines NMI’s background payment acceptance, channel distribution, onboarding and merchant life cycle management with Dwolla’s capabilities in account-to-account infrastructure, real-time payments and open banking. “This acquisition is a continuation of our strategy to build the most […]
January 21, 2026
Payments infrastructure provider Acquired.com has launched a partnership with Visa in the U.K. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Jan. 21), is designed to bring to market Visa A2A, an account-to-account (A2) payment solution,...
July 28, 2025
Mastercard has launched a service designed to protect account-to-account (A2A) payments against fraud. Mastercard A2A Protect, announced Monday and launching first in the U.K., is designed to offer fraud prevention...
July 23, 2025
B2B payments company Mondu has launched an instant account-to-account (A2A) payment solution for B2B eCommerce called Pay Now. Designed to help modernize B2B payments in Europe, Pay Now enables buyers...
