Rowan Akin-Smith, the UK & North America Sales Director at Vyntra, explores how Canada’s upcoming real-time payments rail, the RTR, will impact banking operating models.

Michael Boel, Co-Head of Clearing Technology at Banking Circle, shares why the TIPS infrastructure pilot is relevant for cross-border payments.

ACI Worldwide has launched ACI Connetic, consolidating connectivity to eight major US payment networks on a single cloud-native platform.

Lightspark and Cross River have partnered to enable round-the-clock fiat settlement via the Bitcoin Network and faster payment rails.

Estera Sava, Senior Editor at The Paypers, looks at the current state of the payments and ecommerce industries of the Americas.

Ivy is the world’s first default global, default instant payments platform. Ivy enables businesses to accept and send real-time bank transactions and open up real-time-ready, borderless accounts based on RTP rails and stablecoins. Ivy has secured USD 30 million in funding from renowned fintech investors like Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and Creandum.

ACI Worldwide and The Paypers united some of the brightest minds in the industry — visionary leaders, innovators, and policymakers — for a powerful three-part virtual summit that explored the forces transforming the payments landscape.