On 7th February 2024 the European Parliament mandated that instant payments (in less than 10 seconds) should be the de facto standard for consumers and businesses in the SEPA zone, with a deadline set of 9th January 2025 to deliver this service. For smaller banks with already stretched IT and development resources, less than 12 months to make significant infrastructure changes could be a step too far. Recent insight suggests that more than 40% of banks that currently do not offer instant payments believe the deadline is unrealistic.
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Today, leading embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, OpenPayd announces its partnership with Wirex, a prominent Web3 money app, to provide named virtual IBANs to its customers across the UK and European Economic Area (EEA) strengthening Wirex’s core mission to provide easy, fast and secure payment metho
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