Faster Payments news and trends

PagBrasil and B89 Team to Extend Pix Payments Beyond Brazil

November 06, 2024
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Global Push for Real-Time Payments: EU, Brazil and South Africa Lead the Way
Real-Time Payments // November 06, 2024

Real-time payments are becoming increasingly popular worldwide, with new implementations and innovations emerging regularly. The European Union has been a traditional leader in real-time payments, prompting providers to prioritize compliance with its regulations. A recent example is Broadridge Financial Solutions, which just launched its Instant...

Need for Speed: How Instant Ad Hoc Payments Future-Proof Enterprise Relationships
Faster Payments // November 04, 2024

From vendor pay to gig workers, enterprises are merging into the fast lane for payments. And as enterprises adopt models that rely on agile, ad hoc transactions, instant payments, once considered an option for specific payment scenarios, are now emerging as a central pillar of...

Anti-Fraud Innovations Keep Instant Payments on Right Track
Fraud Prevention // October 31, 2024

Transactions are built atop a first principle of trust. And the faster transactions happen, the stronger that trust needs to be. As digital payments evolve to meet consumers’ expectations for speed and convenience, fraud remains a central challenge for financial institutions and their clients. The...

Expense Management Is Undergoing a Revolution, but Legacy Systems Hold Firms Back
B2B Payments // October 30, 2024

Every dollar of working capital matters to today’s businesses. That makes tracking and managing expenses important, as evidenced by “Grubgate,” where tech giant Meta fired more than 20 employees for abusing the company’s meal expense system. Yet effectively tracking and managing employee business travel and...

Interviews & Exclusives
Global Push for Real-Time Payments: EU, Brazil and South Africa Lead the Way

November 06, 2024
Real-time payments are becoming increasingly popular worldwide, with new implementations and innovations emerging regularly. The European Union has been a traditional leader in real-time payments, prompting providers to prioritize compliance with its regulations. A recent example is Broadridge Financial Solutions, which just launched its Instant Payments Service for real-time money transfers. The service uses the […]

BofA: CFOs and Treasurers Need New Approach to Liquidity Amid Interest Rate Volatility

October 30, 2024
Despite the interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve — 0.5% for the first go-round in September, with more cuts widely expected — the fact remains that the era of...

New Data: Instant Payments for Enterprise: Ad Hoc Transactions Go Real-Time

October 29, 2024
Enterprises regularly make ad hoc payments to consumers and small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). In the last year, the share of accounts payable (AP) comprised of ad hoc payments has...

Democratizing Payments: How Payment Hubs Fuel Innovation for Smaller Banks

October 28, 2024
Keeping pace with innovation can be daunting. For small- to mid-sized banks, credit unions and FinTechs, implementing the latest money movement integrations like real-time payments and more can be a...

Quick Reads
PagBrasil and B89 Team to Extend Pix Payments Beyond Brazil

November 06, 2024
Peru’s B89 teamed with PagBrasil, which develops cross-border solutions for Brazil’s Pix payment system. The partnership will let B89 — a digital financial solutions company — offer the real-time payment services of Pix International to merchants outside Brazil, according to a Wednesday (Nov. 6) press release emailed to PYMNTS. “This allows Brazilian citizens either tourists […]

Mastercard ‘Moves’ Into Commercial Cross-Border Payment Solution for Banks

October 21, 2024
Mastercard introduced a new solution that will enable banks to facilitate commercial cross-border payments that are near real-time, predictable and transparent. The new Mastercard Move Commercial Payments is designed to...

Truist Debuts Electronic Bill Pay for Wholesale Payments Clients

October 18, 2024
Truist debuted a billing payment solution for its wholesale payments clients. The bank’s Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment platform is designed to modernize payment management for these customers, according to...

Nacha: Same Day ACH Volume Leaps 65.7% in Q3

October 17, 2024
Same Day ACH volume on the ACH Network leapt 65.7% in the third quarter compared to a year earlier, while the value of those payments rose 38.8%. Those increases brought...