Nexi, the European PayTech, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) – Te Pūtea Matua, have successfully upgraded New Zealand’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, known as ESAS, ensuring alignment with the latest Swift regulatory and messaging protocols.

Instant payments are transforming the financial ecosystem, driving innovation, speed, and efficiency across global markets. Building on the success of our previous editions, we are proud to present the 11th Instant Payments Summit (IPS), taking place on March 16–17, 2026, in Atlanta, USA.

The financial services industry is evolving at unprecedented speed, driven by Applied AI and HyperAutomation. Following the success of our previous summits, we are pleased to announce the 6th US AppliedAI & HyperAutomation in Finance Summit, a two-day, high-impact forum bringing together senior leaders, innovators, and solution providers in banking, insurance, credit unions, and wealth/asset management.

PhotonPay, an AI-powered financial infrastructure platform, has entered a strategic partnership with 

CGI, one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced its partnership with Barclays to integrate CGI Trade360, CGI’s global trade finance solution, with Konsole from Komgo, the largest multi-bank trade finance platform. The integrated solution will provide Barclays with more transparency, increased transaction speed, reduced manual entry and reduced operating risk.

Nuvei today announced the launch of its AI-powered Integration Agent, a new solution that enables merchants and partners to connect to its global payments infrastructure in hours instead of weeks. By dramatically simplifying technical integration, the launch advances Nuvei’s strategy to embed AI across the payments lifecycle, helping businesses go live faster, reduce costly errors, and access optimization tools that accelerate revenue growth.

Brex, the intelligent finance platform, announced today the upcoming launch of native stablecoin payments. This will make Brex the first global corporate card to enable instant balance payments with stablecoins. With this launch, customers with a Brex business account will be able to accept stablecoins with automatic conversion into USD in their Brex business accounts and send stablecoins directly from their USD balances. In addition, Brex customers will be able to pay their card balances with stablecoins.

Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web. NET Dollar will help power a new business model for the Internet that rewards originality, sustains creativity, and enables innovation in an AI-driven world.

Chainlink announced today a landmark technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows directly from their existing systems using Swift messaging and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE). With Swift messages and CRE, banks and institutions can seamlessly access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied upon for decades.