Tagged: real-time payments

November 6, 2024 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium and Partior have partnered on real-time, cross-border payments, clearing and settlement. Nium now reportedly becomes one of th efirst fintechs to join the blockchain-based network, enabling cross-border payments, market reach, and transaction transparency Nium, the infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, confirmed its partnership with… Read More

October 29, 2024 @ 4:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments,  announced the launch of Nium Verify, a real-time bank account verification solution for businesses and individual accounts, available across 50 markets. Designed to empower businesses with instant verification of beneficiary bank account details, Nium Verify aims to… Read More

August 21, 2024 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance notes in a recent update that the receipt of instant payments now possible. No more waiting for your money: instant payments are here. PostFinance customers can “now receive money transfers in real time – 24/7, 365 days a year.” According to a blog post… Read More

July 31, 2024 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AppBrilliance, an enabler of real-time payment solutions with its Money API platform, is leveraging a recent rule change by The Clearing House to expand use-cases for Real Time Payments (RTP) to closed-loop digital wallets in the US. Companies like Starbucks, CVS, Dunkin, Chick-fil-A and many… Read More

July 28, 2024 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global enabler of mission-critical, real-time payments solutions, and Worldpay, a global provider of payment processing solutions, today announced an extension of their longstanding partnership. The agreement will see ACI continue to “provide critical infrastructure to Worldpay to support merchants worldwide.” Through… Read More

June 6, 2024 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global enabler of real-time cross-border payments, announced it has raised US$50 million in a Series E funding round. The investment round was led by “a sovereign wealth fund in Southeast Asia and values the company at US$1.4 billion post-money.” The sovereign wealth fund… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global enabler of  in real-time cross-border payments, announced today that HappyEasyGo, an online travel agency, has selected it for virtual card payments. Launched in 2017, HappyEasyGo claims that it “has emerged as one of the fastest-growing flight and hotel booking platforms in Asia,… Read More

February 26, 2024 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ebury, one of the largest fintech companies specializing in transactions for SMEs, announced its partnership expansion with Nium, the enabler of real-time global payments, to deliver a groundbreaking global remittance service in Brazil. The announcement follows regulatory “approval of Ebury’s acquisition of Brazilian fintech Bexs,… Read More

February 6, 2024 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the enabler of real-time global payments, announces it has received in principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India for two payment licenses – the Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) License and the Payment Aggregator (PA) License. The two licenses will allow the global payments… Read More

January 25, 2024 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and The Clearing House (TCH) have announced an extended multi-year partnership, bringing the companies together to collaborate on innovative capabilities for consumers, businesses and governments “to evolve and embrace the digital economy through real-time payments (RTP) adoption on the RTP network.” The… Read More

December 20, 2023 @ 10:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volt, the global real-time payments platform, has recently announced its partnership with embedded sustainability fintech, ekko. The collaboration enables consumers and retailers “to support the removal of plastic bottles from the ocean at checkout, which are then tracked in real time to measure the environmental… Read More

November 27, 2023 @ 7:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volt, the global real-time payments platform, announces its expansion into Australia following a period of sustained growth for the UK-headquartered fintech company. Following Volt’s $60m funding round earlier this year, this development “marks the latest step in its ambitious growth plans to meet market demand… Read More

November 8, 2023 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volt, the global real-time payments platform, recently announced that Matt Henderson, former CEO of Stripe Europe, ex-Google, ex-Amazon, has now “joined as a Special Advisor to the Board.” Henderson reportedly joins Volt at a critical inflection point “for the company, following the successful completion of… Read More

October 22, 2023 @ 6:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the real-time global payments provider, has expanded its B2B travel payments offering in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, “building on rising demand for its virtual card solution offering globally.” Travel intermediaries and operators use Nium’s virtual card solution “to efficiently pay suppliers around the… Read More

October 22, 2023 @ 1:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The 2023 AFP Real-time Payments Survey, conducted by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), found that corporates plan “to drastically increase their use of real-time payments in the next five years to benefit from lower transaction costs, improved transparency into the payment process, increased efficiency,… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Every company that moves money is keeping a close eye on FedNow, the team at Plaid notes in a blog post. Plaid explains that firms expect instant payments for every use case, but the reality is “that the market isn’t quite there yet.” However, there… Read More

September 20, 2023 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global firm focused on mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced a collaboration with Microsoft in order “to help financial institutions and technical services enable instant payments transactions faster through ACI’s Real-Time Payments Cloud (RTPC) platform.” Hosted in the Microsoft Azure environment,… Read More

September 17, 2023 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY Mellon (NYSE: BK), in collaboration with Datos Insights, released a report examining the ongoing growth of real-time payments as a result of increasing demand from consumers for faster payment options. The report finds that a focus on faster payment rails “represents a significant market… Read More

September 8, 2023 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The RTP Network, the instant payments system operated by The Clearing House that is available to all insured depository financial institutions in the United States, surpassed the one million daily payment milestone “on September 1 as more financial institutions and their customers realize the benefits… Read More

September 4, 2023 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As more countries implement real-time payments rails (including the U.S. in July with FedNow), the next big frontier in the industry is the race to develop the best real-time cross-border payments solutions. ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global provider of real-time payments solutions, can speak… Read More