Real-time payments network Thunes Ltd. announced early Monday its connection to Swift, the Brussels-based international financial-messaging network, will enable financial institutions to support the sending and receiving of money to and from more than 3 million mobile wallets globally. Using Thunes’s Direct Global Network, which covers 130 countries and 80 …

Tyfone Inc., a provider of consumer and commercial digital banking services for community banks and credit unions, has launched Payfinia Inc., a separate company that provides real-time payments technology. Payfinia’s flagship product will be the Instant Payment Xchange (IPX), which provides consumers with the ability make an account-to-account payment using …

More than a year after the launch of real-time payments by the Federal Reserve, financial institutions of all sizes are adopting the service. Some mid-size and smaller institutions are also looking ahead to related issues, including the looming ISO20022 standard for financial messaging. The latest example emerged Thursday with an …

More credit unions will have access to real-time payments networks in separate deals announced Tuesday. BankSocial, a division of Fivancial Inc., launched its real-time payment service for credit unions. Meanwhile, Pidgin Inc. is working with core processing provider Corelation Inc. to enable broader real-time payments access to its clients. Dallas-based …