Congressional leaders delivered on their promise to pass legislation this week establishing the first-ever set of federal rules governing the U.S. stablecoin market. Stablecoins are digital assets (or cryptocurrencies) pegged to instruments with fixed monetary value, such as the U.S. dollar.

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Real-time payments adoption is accelerating. Not just in numbers, but in value. During the second quarter of 2025, the RTP network, the nation's only private sector real-time payment network, averaged 1.18 million payments a day, processing a total of $481 billion. That's a 195 percent jump in value over the previous quarter.

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The Reserve Bank of Australia released a consultation paper on July 15, 2025, proposing to put an end to merchants assessing surcharges on payments made using Mastercard or Visa debit cards. What’s more, it said the cap on credit card interchange fees paid by businesses need to be lowered, and the card brands and acquirers need to publish the fees they charge.

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SaaS security is becoming a critical enterprise concern, but many organizations are not as prepared as they believe, according to the recently released State of SaaS Security 2025 Report from AppOmni. The SaaS and AI security company's third annual report revealed a sharp rise in SaaS-related security incidents and mounting risks stemming from AI-enabled applications, all while organizations cling to a false sense of confidence in their existing protections.

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The federal government wants to start phasing out paper checks beginning Sept. 30, 2025. This is according to an executive order signed by President Trump on March 25. Not surprisingly, the feds have received plenty of recommendations for how to accomplish this feat. Among them: the person-to-person payment network Zelle.

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This summer, as temperatures rise and foot traffic picks up across retail, travel, and hospitality, merchants are under pressure to deliver seamless payment experiences that meet evolving consumer expectations. In this Q&A, The Green Sheet touches base with James Lloyd, head of transformation at Ingenico, to explore the payment trends shaping the season, from mobile wallets and contactless cards to the growing popularity of QR codes and SoftPOS solutions.

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It's not often you see a card brand involved with giving away hardware. But that's what's happening, through a collaboration between Mastercard and Fiserv. The two companies are running a sale, offering up to 1,000 qualifying small businesses Clover POS devices for just a penny a month in hardware rental fees.

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Bitget, a global cryptocurrency exchange, concluded its 2025?Anti?Scam Month, an awareness and education campaign designed to fortify users against escalating Web3 fraud. Throughout June, Bitget rolled out its flagship Smarter Eyes Challenge, designed to be an engaging, comic-style mini-game simulating real-world scams such as phishing, social engineering and fake token approvals.

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Walmart will pay $10 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it turned a blind eye to scammers who used the mega retailer's in-store money transfer services to bilk U.S. consumers of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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As previously reported in The Green Sheet, the UK payment processor Paddle.com Market Ltd., and its subsidiary, Paddle.com Inc. (based in Delaware), will pay $5 million and be permanently banned from processing payments for tech-support telemarketers under a settlement reached with the Federal Trade Commission on June 16 2025. See the full article here.

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