India Considers Integrating UPI with Alipay+ for Cross-Border Payments
While some may associate Alipay with China’s tremendously popular super app, its sister platform, Alipay+, is a merchant gateway with a rapidly expanding international reach. As one of Ant International’s merchant platforms, Alipay+ played a crucial role in facilitating more than two billion cross-border payments last year, many of them originating in fast-growing markets like […]
Why the UK Is Exploring Instant Payments
The Bank of England is pursuing a public consultation on consumer payments, focused on making it easier for shoppers to pay without using a debit or credit card. The process could pave the way for a UK-based instant payments system akin to Brazil’s Pix or India’s UPI. The announcement came during a speech by Sarah […]
What’s Driving the Rapid Growth in ACH Payments
The ACH Network is reliable and ubiquitous. And over the past year, it continued to realize strong growth, both in the volume of payments and overall dollar amount. In 2025, ACH Network payment volume increased by roughly 1.6 billion, reaching a total of 35.2 billion, or an average of 141 million payments per day. In […]