Payment Rails news and trends

Bank of England: CHAPS Payment System Service Restored After Outage

July 18, 2024
Bank of England, CHAPS, UK
Ad Hoc Payments Reach 30% of AP Dollar Volume for Enterprise SMBs
Accounts Payable // June 11, 2024

Thanks in part to the influx of gig workers and demands of key industries, enterprise small- to medium-sized business (SMB) payers are sending 28% more instant ad hoc payments than they did inSeptember. Ad hoc payments — those payments made outside of normal invoicing and...

Account-to-Account Payments Have a Branding Problem
Payment Methods // June 09, 2023

Business has a way of creating an alphabet soup of abbreviations and marketing names for financial products, and that’s certainly the case with account-to-account, or A2A, transfers. It’s helpful to simplify, especially when new uses are found for legacy payment methods that are in wide...

Three Insiders Share Their Views on FedNow Pilot
Faster Payments // November 29, 2022

The FedNow Service instant payments system is slated to launch next year — a culmination of an effort stretching out more than three-and-a-half years, a pilot program with more than 100 participants and the development and testing of multiple product features, functions and use cases....

Instant Payments Help New Payments Ecosystems Blossom
Faster Payments // November 28, 2022

Faster payments take center stage this coming year, as FedNow, the U.S.-based instant payments network, gets up and running. But as Wells Fargo Head of Enterprise Payments Strategy Ulrike Guigui recounted to PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, instant payments have been around since before the pandemic. And...

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Account-to-Account Payments Have a Branding Problem

June 09, 2023
Business has a way of creating an alphabet soup of abbreviations and marketing names for financial products, and that’s certainly the case with account-to-account, or A2A, transfers. It’s helpful to simplify, especially when new uses are found for legacy payment methods that are in wide use — but under other names — which can cause […]

Three Insiders Share Their Views on FedNow Pilot

November 29, 2022
The FedNow Service instant payments system is slated to launch next year — a culmination of an effort stretching out more than three-and-a-half years, a pilot program with more than...

Instant Payments Help New Payments Ecosystems Blossom

November 28, 2022
Faster payments take center stage this coming year, as FedNow, the U.S.-based instant payments network, gets up and running. But as Wells Fargo Head of Enterprise Payments Strategy Ulrike Guigui...

Why Universal ‘Pay Anybody’ Is Coming and Will Change Everything

October 31, 2022
Ubiquity and choice are the digital promised land. How we get there from here will be a matter of securely opening the payments ecosystem to both while simplifying the field...

Quick Reads
Bank of England: CHAPS Payment System Service Restored After Outage

July 18, 2024
The Bank of England said Thursday (July 18) that a global payments issue that was affecting CHAPS, the United Kingdom’s high-value payment system, is now resolved. “We are pleased to confirm that the third-party supplier has restored service following their earlier issues, and CHAPS payments are settling as normal,” the Bank of England said in a Thursday press […]

Brazilian FinTech Unicorn CloudWalk Launches Blockchain

June 27, 2022
CloudWalk, a Brazilian FinTech that manages payments for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced Monday (June 27) that it is launching a blockchain of its own. Last fall, CloudWalk announced...

Payment Rails Raises $7M, Rebrands as Trolley

December 07, 2021
FinTech startup Payment Rails is rebranding as Trolley while closing a $7 million Series A funding round led by Pace Capital, with Pace partner Chris Paik joining the Trolley Board...

Big Banks Endorse SWIFT’s Global Transaction Management Platform

June 24, 2021
SWIFT’s new transaction management platform received an endorsement from six international banks, which are getting ready to harness the system’s new functionalities to allow for new services, bolster efficiency and...