Instant Payments Explained: What Real-Time Really Means for Merchants in 2026
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Instant payments have moved from “emerging” to expected in a surprisingly short amount of time. In many markets, customers now…
Australia 2026 Payments Deep Dive: How NPP, PayTo & the RBA’s Retail Payments Review Reshape High-Risk Merchant Strategy
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Australia is quietly becoming one of the most important payment laboratories in the world. While many markets are still debating…
The Post-Card Era: How Tokenised Deposits & Embedded Finance Are Replacing Traditional Rails by 2026
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For four decades, card networks have shaped how global commerce works. They enabled online payments, cross-border acceptance, and scale but…
Europe’s Instant Payments & Open Banking Landscape 2026: Where A2A Can Replace Cards for High-Risk Merchants
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Europe’s payment landscape is undergoing one of its most significant structural shifts in a decade. With the EU’s Instant Payments…
CBDCs & High-Risk Payments 2026: How Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Reshape Acquiring, Settlement & Merchant Risk
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Until recently, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) sounded like a distant policy experiment interesting to economists, but disconnected from real…

