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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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Episode 300 - Reflecting on 12 Years of Payments on Fire

2026 is a milestone year for Glenbrook as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the firm. We also find ourselves airing the 300th episode of our Payments on Fire podcast - founded by George Peabody in 2014, nurtured by Yvette Bohanan, and now continued on through the hosting efforts of most of the team. We thought there would be no better way to mark the 12 year achievement - and pay respect to what George and Yvette built - than to revisit the journey with clips from the first 299 episodes. From early episodes on digital currency and AI, to fast payments evolution and financial inclusion efforts (and how could we leave out tokenization), listen in as Bryan Derman and Jill Wurst guide you through significant moments in the podcast’s history.

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Nium Launches Card Issuance in the United States

Nium

“Nium , the global infrastructure leader for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the launch of domestic card issuance in the United States, extending its multi-region issuing platform to North America. Businesses can now issue local cards across APAC, Europe, Middle East, and North America while maintaining access to Nium’s global payment network spanning 190+ countries […]

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Sionic Launches Instant Bank Pay in U.S. Through Microsoft Marketplace

Business Wire

Sionic, a leader in real-time, bank-to-bank payments at the point of sale, announced the availability launch of its Instant Bank Pay service alongside Fraud Detection Service in Microsoft Marketplace, the unified online destination for customers to buy trusted cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet their business needs. Sionic customers can now discover and […]

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FIS Launches Digital One™ Commercial to Help APAC Banks Scale Business Banking Across Growth Markets

FIS Global

“FIS has launched Digital One™ Commercial in APAC, a core-agnostic, composable commercial banking platform enabling banks to serve all business segments on a single system without replacing existing core systems. Digital One Commercial supports real-time, multi-rail payments with native multi-language, multi-currency, and cloud-ready capabilities for the region’s diverse regulatory environments. The platform’s API-first architecture integrates […]

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Episode 299 - The Evolving Payments Regulatory Environment in the European Union, with Scott McInnes, Bird & Bird

In this Payments on Fire episode, Glenbrook’s Chris Uriarte and Samantha Gordon continue their global payments regulation series with Scott McInnes, Partner at Bird & Bird, focusing on the European Union. Tune in as they explore the EU’s highly regulated landscape, the challenges of inconsistent national enforcement across 27 member states, and developments on current regulatory topics.

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FedNow Turns Three: The Next Growth Opportunity for Regional Banks

Finzly, Inc.

“While regional banks represent only a small fraction of FedNow participants today, there is still significant runway to use real-time payments as a foundation for commercial banking growth. FedNow just reached its third anniversary, and the adoption story reveals an important opportunity. More than 1,800 financial institutions are now live on the network—but participation remains […]

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TerraPay Partners with HDBank to Power Real-Time International Payments from Vietnam

TerraPay

“TerraPay has partnered with HDBank, one of Vietnam’s leading commercial banks known for its strong retail and SME franchise, to enable real-time outbound international payments from Vietnam to bank accounts and mobile wallets worldwide. Vietnam’s outward remittance market was valued at approximately US$275 million in 2025, and is forecast to grow to US$346 million by 2030 — […]

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PIX and Stablecoins Are Not Rivals, Says Visa’s Digital Currencies Chief for Latin America

Yahoo Finance

“Stablecoins did not arrive to fight PIX. That was the message from Antônia Souza, Visa’s Director of Digital Currencies for Latin America and the Caribbean. “We are not here to fight against PIX”, she said, pushing back on a framing that has become common across the region. In her view, the two serve different jobs. […]

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Why South African Banks Still Charge for Instant Payments

TechCabal

Three years after the launch of PayShap, South Africa’s real-time payment system, the technology behind instant bank transfers is no longer the issue. The question is why consumers are still paying to move their own money. Brazil’s Pix, launched in 2020, became the country’s dominant payment method by allowing consumers to send money instantly at little […]