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Matera Launches Matera Workspace, Giving Banks and Credit Unions the Shortest Path to Offer Digital Assets Alongside Fiat

Business Wire

“Matera announced the launch of Matera Workspace, an extensible application platform that allows banks and credit unions to offer stablecoins, crypto and other digital assets side by side with fiat – without replacing their core banking system. At the center of Workspace is Digital Twin, Matera’s real-time ledger already running instant payments in production today. […]

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Canadian Payment Transactions Reach $12.9 Trillion as Real-Time Payments Near Launch

Canadas Entrepreneur

“Canadian payment transactions totalled $12.9 trillion in 2025, up 5.7 per cent from the previous year, as credit and debit cards maintained their dominance and more than half of Canadians expressed interest in real-time payments, according to a new report from Payments Canada. The findings come ahead of the planned fourth-quarter 2026 launch of Canada’s […]

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Canada’s Initial Real-Time Rail Rollout Likely Won’t Include Big Banks, Sources Say

BetaKit

“Canada’s instant payment system, Real-Time Rail (RTR), likely won’t include any of the country’s largest banks in its first phase, BetaKit has learned.  The RTR system is meant to be an instant, always-on payment infrastructure for Canadians and their financial institutions to transfer funds. The system is under development by the national non-profit Payments Canada, […]

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FedNow To Test International Real-Time Payments

Digital Transactions

“FedNow, the instant-payment service operated by the Federal Reserve, prepares to test cross-border transactions. The test will involve a group of organizations that were not named. They will test “FedNow enhanced message formats that facilitates sending and receiving the U.S. domestic leg of cross-border payments,” a Fed statement says. Possible use cases could be international […]

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BofA Clients Accelerate RTP® Use, Led by Liquidity Management

Bank of America

“Bank of America’s corporate clients are proving that higher-value real-time payments are in demand by increasingly using the RTP® network to move money, support liquidity needs and execute business payments with greater speed, transparency and control. The strongest growth is occurring at the higher end of the transaction range, where clients are using RTP to […]

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Bank of America, Bradesco Test Instant Cross-Border Payments

Bank of America

“Bank of America announced that Bradesco, one of Brazil’s largest private-sector banks, has completed the first pilot transaction using the bank’s Cross-Border Real-Time Payments solution. The payment was initiated through Bradesco’s existing Swift connectivity and delivered in Hong Kong dollars to a local beneficiary through Hong Kong’s Faster Payment System (FPS).”

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Marqeta Unifies Card and Non-Card Payments on a Single Platform

Marqeta

“Marqeta is announcing the expansion of its platform to enable companies to make payments using a variety of non-card rails, alongside card issuing. Businesses can now pay suppliers, reimburse workers, and disburse funds to consumers at scale — using virtual cards, bank transfers, and real-time payments without needing separate vendors for each. Marqeta will be […]

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Thunes Powers J.P. Morgan Payments’ Xpedite Remit Solution to Accelerate Global Payouts

Thunes

“Thunes has been selected by J.P. Morgan Payments to expand the business’ cross-border capabilities through its Xpedite Remit solutions suite. The new solutions leverage both J.P. Morgan Payments’ connectivity to local real-time payments rails and Thunes’ extensive Direct Global Network in order to meet growing demand for fast, simple and reliable cross-border payments. The solution […]

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ACI Worldwide Expands ACI Connetic with Advanced Financial Messaging Technology to Power Intelligent, Future-Ready Payments

ACI Worldwide

“ACI Worldwide announced the expansion of ACI Connetic with a powerful cloud-native Financial Messaging capability, designed to help banks modernize payments infrastructure, simplify complexity, and scale real-time processing across domestic and cross-border networks. ACI’s advanced financial messaging technology delivers cloud-native, intelligent messaging that transforms how banks manage payments and other systemic messages across account-to-account (A2A) rails.”

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Feedzai Partners With Peoples Group to Anchor Fraud Defense for Canada’s Real-Time Rail

TipRanks

“Feedzai is deepening its presence in the Canadian payments market through a new strategic partnership with Peoples Group to provide AI-driven fraud monitoring for instant payments ahead of Canada’s Real-Time Rail launch in late 2026. Under the agreement, Peoples Group will embed Feedzai’s RiskOps technology into its core transaction infrastructure, making Feedzai the primary engine […]

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Coinbase Brings Stablecoin Payments and Custody to Community Banks and Credit Unions, in Partnership with Moov

Moov

“Coinbase and Moov are partnering to bring stablecoin payment acceptance, settlement, and real-time funding to Moov’s growing customer base of more than 1,000 community banks and credit unions, combining Coinbase’s regulated digital asset infrastructure with Moov’s existing payments platform. Moov provides payments infrastructure to a growing customer base of more than 1,000 community banks and […]

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FedNow and the Development of U.S. Fast Payments

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

“FedNow is a real-time payment service developed by the Federal Reserve that enables individuals and businesses to send and receive instant payments around the clock through participating financial institutions. But how does it compare to competitors and other payments alternatives? In this article, we examine FedNow’s adoption and usage pattern and compare it to other […]

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J.P. Morgan: Real-Time Reframed

J.P. Morgan

“One of the beauties of cash is that it is so fast. When paying with paper money, a transaction is settled instantaneously. The advent of modern technology has managed to slow things down. Whether tapping a card or using a digital wallet, electronic payments can take days to complete. As we enter the real-time era, we […]

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Industry

Why Payee Verification Is Becoming Critical Payments Infrastructure

Global Banking & Finance Review

“Name-checking controls are moving from optional fraud-prevention tools to a core layer of real-time payment infrastructure as faster transfers reduce the time available to detect and reverse mistakes or scams. The European Central Bank explains that payment service providers in the euro area must offer Verification of Payee for both standard and instant credit transfers, free of charge […]

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Australian Businesses Embrace Always-On, Real-Time Payments

Australian Payments Plus

“Corporate Australia embraces real-time payments as finance leaders look beyond speed, according to the latest research from Crisil Coalition Greenwich. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Australia’s largest corporates are now aware of the transition to real-time payments, up from 51%.  43% of large Australian companies have started planning their transition, up by 48% Banks and technology […]

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