Real-Time Payments

10 Feb 26 @ 17:30

Visa is pushing deeper into one of the world’s most strategically important payment corridors, announcing a partnership with UnionPay International to enable cross-border, real-time payments into mainland China. The agreement... read more

20 Jan 26 @ 14:12

Betting volumes are pushing older payment systems to their limits, which is prompting banks to switch to real-time processing. This article offers some valuable insights into the technical challenges and... read more

06 Jan 26 @ 13:53

Speed has become the defining feature of modern payments. Real-time rails now move money in milliseconds rather than hours, reshaping customer expectations and competitive dynamics across banking and fintech. Yet... read more

10 Dec 25 @ 17:21

On 07 November 2025, the Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) published its “Strategy for Future Retail Payments Infrastructure.” As a quick refresher, the PVDC was set up in November 2024 to... read more

10 Dec 25 @ 11:00

The pressure on payment service providers to find ways of dealing with the burgeoning demand of real-time payment settlement services has been tremendous, with real-time transaction volumes rising 42.2% across... read more

26 Nov 25 @ 09:32

Innovations in finance and FinTech have completely transformed how people pay for goods and services. The world has gone from strictly using cash to using a myriad of digital payment... read more

24 Nov 25 @ 16:29

The European Central Bank (ECB) is accelerating its plans to interlink Europe’s real-time payments infrastructure with fast payment systems overseas, marking an important step in reshaping cross-border transfers between Europe... read more

19 Nov 25 @ 18:04

The payments industry is entering one of the most consequential periods of change in its modern history – and a lot rests on the rails it runs on. Consumer habits,... read more

17 Nov 25 @ 18:09

Brazil’s instant payments system, Pix, is preparing to cross a symbolic threshold as it marks its fifth anniversary. According to a new analysis by EBANX, monthly Pix transactions could reach... read more

03 Oct 25 @ 08:58

The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) has released its 2025 US Instant Payments Adoption Quantitative Study, providing one of the clearest signals yet that real-time payments are moving from promise... read more

01 Oct 25 @ 11:07

The UK payments landscape is undergoing one of the most profound shifts in its history. Figures from UK Payment Markets 2025 show that nearly 49 billion transactions were made in... read more

12 Sep 25 @ 14:19

Real-time payments have long been heralded as the future of money movement in the US and many other global markets. With the RTP network from The Clearing House and the... read more