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Instant Payments: Accessibility Is Equally As Important As Speed

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Daniel Stanton, Global Head of Transactional FX, Cross-Border RTP & Clearing at Bank of America, explained why we can be optimistic about the global banking and payments landscape. He also discusses the drivers of continuous innovation, and in terms of instant payments, points out there are other advantages besides the preoccupation with speed – accessibility, interoperability, transparency, and lower costs.

01 July 2025

Company announcement/payments

BofA clients embrace new $10 million limit in US real-time payments

Recent action from The Clearing House to increase the transaction limit on real-time payments from $1 million to $10 million is fueling new use cases in business-to-business payments among Bank of America clients.

10 June 2025

News/crypto

Major US banks consider joint stablecoin venture

US big banks, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo have held discussions on potentially launching a stablecoin that will improve transaction speeds whilst managing competition from encroaching crypto firms.

23 May 2025

Company announcement/security

QR sign-ins surge on BofA's CashPro platform

Every day, thousands of CFOs and treasurers use QR code technology to sign-in to CashPro, Bank of America’s digital banking platform accessed by more than 40,000 corporate and commercial clients around the world to manage their treasury, trade and credit operations and perform self-service requests.

20 May 2025

Company announcement/retail

BofA to open more financial centres

Bank of America will open more than 150 new financial centers across 60 markets by the end of 2027, including 40 this year and an additional 70 in 2026.

13 May 2025

News/payments

Smarter, faster, still relevant: Experts weigh future of US payment systems

Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments conference in New Orleans highlighted the growing momentum behind real-time payments, emphasising their transformative potential across commercial and technological verticals. Yet, amid this digital shift, sessions also acknowledged the enduring relevance of traditional rails like wire transfers, ACH, and even cheques - each facing its own modernisation challenges.

30 April 2025

Company announcement/people

Bank of America strengthens global payments solutions team

Bank of America has announced two strategic leadership appointments within its Global Payments Solutions business, reinforcing its commitment to expanding capabilities across key international markets.

25 April 2025

News/markets

Big banks join $63m funding round for Luma

Luma Financial Technologies, a platform for structured products and annuities, has raised $63 million in Series C financing led by Sixth Street Growth and joined by a host of existing Wall Street backers.

17 April 2025

News/ai

BofA staffers embrace AI virtual assistant

Bank of America says that over 90% of its 213,000 employees now use its AI-driven internal virtual assistant, cutting calls into the IT services desk by half.

08 April 2025

News/crypto

Bakkt sees shares plunge as crypto firm loses major customers

Shares in digital asset player Bakkt tumbled by more than a third on news that the firm has lost two major customers, Bank pf America and Webull.

19 March 2025

News/crypto

BofA CEO says bank prepared to launch own stablecoin

Bank of America will look to launch its own dollar-backed stablecoin if US lawmakers make it legal to do so, says CEO Brian Moynihan.

04 March 2025

News/payments

BNY sends largest instant payment in US history

BNY has used The Clearing House's RTP Network to send the largest instant payment in US history, transferring $10 million to Bank of America on behalf of a client.

10 February 2025