Real-time Payments

February, 2026

• 13 February

  Fiserv Launches INDX for Real Time Settlement of Digital Assets in U.S. Dollars

  

  Fiserv Inc. has launched INDX, a real-time cash-settlement platform that enables digital-asset companies to store and transfer U.S. dollars at all hours and every day in real time. Digital-asset companies can use INDX to move dollars into a single custodial account insured up to $25 million by the Federal Deposit …
• 11 February

  Adyen’s Personalize Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/11/26

  

  Adyen NV announced Personalize, a tool that lets businesses modify checkout pages in real time in response to shopper preferences. The new service is related to Adyen Uplift, a routing capability launched last year and aimed at increasing conversion rates. Lut, a cannabis-payments specialist, said it will work with Frankenmuth Credit …
• 9 February

  Uber Deepens Adyen Ties and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/9/26

  

  The ride-sharing service Uber will expand its use of payments services from Adyen NV to cover more geographies and will make use of Adyen’s Checkout API product for a wider choice of payment methods, the companies announced. Honor Capital said it is working with ePayPolicy to offer financing when insured customers are making premium …

January, 2026

• 30 January

  Visa Says It’s Positioning Itself to Be a ‘Hyperscaler’ in Payments

  

  Visa Inc. chief executive Ryan McInerney touted the card network’s ability to build and deliver innovations and scalable technologies as drivers behind the company’s strong fiscal first quarter 2026 results.  Processed-transaction dollar volume grew 8% year-over-year in the quarter to nearly $4 trillion in constant dollars, with transactions up 9% …
• 29 January

  ACH Volume Grew 5% in 2025

  

  Business-to-business and same-day ACH were standout segments of Nacha’s automated clearing house transactions in 2025. Released Thursday, total volume of 35.2 billion payments in 2025 made with the ACH payment method were up 5% over 2024. Reston, Va.-based Nacha, the ACH rules maker, says these transactions were valued at $93 …
• 27 January

  Crypto Is Moving Into the Payments Mainstream, a New Study Finds

  

  Merchants and consumers are embracing cryptocurrency as a mainstream payments option, according to a study from the National Cryptocurrency Association and PayPal Holdings Inc. Some 39% of merchants surveyed accept cryptocurrency at checkout, while 84% believe crypto payments will become common in the next five years, the study says. A …
• 27 January

  Nuvei Teams with Wex and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/27/26

  

  Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said it will offer virtual card technology from WEX Inc. to its merchant base under a new agreement. Forter Inc., a developer of anti-fraud technology, said it will offer fraud prevention and identity technology to the McDonald’s Corp. for transactions conducted digitally with the hamburger chain. Mastercard Inc. announced …
• 23 January

  CapOne To Acquire Brex and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/23/26

  

  Capital One Financial Corp. said it will acquire Brex Inc., a San Francisco-based specialist in corporate cards and expense-management software, for $5.15 billion in stock and cash. Brex founder and chief executive Pedro Franceschi will continue in that role. The deal is expected to close by mid-year. Visa Inc. said it will …
• 22 January

  Stablecoins Are a Mainstream Form of Digital Payments, Zerohash Finds

  

  Stablecoins have moved into the mainstream of digital payments, according to a report from cryptocurrency platform provider zerohash. In 2025, stablecoin transaction volume as measured in U.S. dollars increased nearly seven-fold year over year, while the average transaction size rose 157%. In addition, the number of customers actively transacting with …
• 22 January

  FedNow Tallies More Than 1,600 FIs in its Real-Time Payments Service

  

  FedNow, the real-time payments service from the Federal Reserve, has topped 1,600 participating financial institutions in the more than two years since the network’s 2023 debut. The Fed says more than 100 of them, plus two service providers, joined in the fourth quarter. FedNow, which enables instant payments between accounts, …