Interoperability news and trends

Banks Race to Close Real-Time Payment Gaps
Real-Time Payments // February 23, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Serena Smith of i2c  As the payments industry moves deeper into 2026, executives are confronting a widening gap between innovation and coherence. New rails are coming online. Regulatory expectations continue to evolve. Standards adoption presses forward. Artificial intelligence...

MIT Prof Says Success of Stablecoins Rests on Interoperability
Cryptocurrency // October 15, 2025

Watch more: TechReg Talks: MIT Sloan School, Christian Catalini When Congress passed the GENIUS Act, few outside the FinTech community realized its implications. For the first time, U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins, a cornerstone of crypto markets, received a clear legal identity. After years in a regulatory...

White House and Tech Firms Teaming on Health Data Sharing
Healthcare // July 27, 2025

Two top Trump administration officials are reportedly working with tech companies to promote healthcare data sharing. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz were expected to host tech executives at a White...

Apple Appeals European Commission Order on Interoperability With Competitors’ Products
Mobile Commerce // June 02, 2025

Apple reportedly filed an appeal against an order from the European Union’s antitrust regulator that requires the company to make its iOS operating system more compatible with other companies’ products. The company filed its appeal Friday (May 30) at the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg,...

Interviews & Exclusives
Banks Race to Close Real-Time Payment Gaps

February 23, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Serena Smith of i2c  As the payments industry moves deeper into 2026, executives are confronting a widening gap between innovation and coherence. New rails are coming online. Regulatory expectations continue to evolve. Standards adoption presses forward. Artificial intelligence (AI) introduces new operating models. Each advance carries promise, yet […]

MIT Prof Says Success of Stablecoins Rests on Interoperability

October 15, 2025
Watch more: TechReg Talks: MIT Sloan School, Christian Catalini When Congress passed the GENIUS Act, few outside the FinTech community realized its implications. For the first time, U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins,...

EU Regulation Forces Retailers to Rethink Loyalty Programs

March 18, 2024
Read anything about the recent March 7 enforcement date for the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) and you’ll inevitably see a focus on big tech companies, potential fines and a general...

Connectivity Defined the Past Decade — Interoperability Will Shape the Next

December 04, 2023
A decade ago, in 2013, Amazon counted around a thousand robots across its fulfilment warehouses. That same year, tech giant Google spent more on headcount and people costs than it...

Quick Reads
White House and Tech Firms Teaming on Health Data Sharing

July 27, 2025
Two top Trump administration officials are reportedly working with tech companies to promote healthcare data sharing. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz were expected to host tech executives at a White House event this week, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (July 27), […]

Apple Appeals European Commission Order on Interoperability With Competitors’ Products

June 02, 2025
Apple reportedly filed an appeal against an order from the European Union’s antitrust regulator that requires the company to make its iOS operating system more compatible with other companies’ products....

App Makers Form Lobbying Group to Challenge Smartphone Manufacturers 

April 30, 2025
Technology companies Meta, Spotify, Match Group and Garmin have founded a lobbying group that said it will “combat anti-competitive practices by smartphone platform owners.”  The Coalition for a Competitive Mobile...

Threads Begins Testing Interoperability With Other Platforms

December 13, 2023
Meta-owned social media platform Threads has begun tests related to its previously announced plans to make posts available on other platforms as well. “Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts...