Green Sheet
19:18:55 (UTC) 02-17-2026
New FPC report explores B2B cross-border payments use cases, opportunities
18:52:48 (UTC) 02-17-2026
Bluefin, Basis Theory to enable unified tokenization across digital, in-person payments
18:15:57 (UTC) 02-17-2026
Velera named debit, credit processing partner for Mutual Federal Credit Union
18:14:42 (UTC) 02-17-2026
UnionPay cardholders gain access to cash at NCR Atleos Cashzone ATMs in UK
18:12:40 (UTC) 02-17-2026
Lunar New Year spending surge expected to drive cross-border chargeback spike
18:11:33 (UTC) 02-17-2026
BridgeWise acquires Context Analytics
18:03:22 (UTC) 02-17-2026
Onramp funds adds Rolling Cash line to funding options
14:34:49 (UTC) 02-17-2026
AI InterConnect Podcast interviews The Green Sheet CEO Kate Gillespie
Breaking News
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Europe moves to loosen Visa, Mastercard grip on payments
Several European news outlets reported that leaders there want to cut their countries' reliance on foreign payment companies, especially Mastercard and Visa. In fact, 13 European countries formed an alliance, EuroPA, with an eye to building a continent-wide payment system around Wero, a digital wallet operated by the European Payments Initiative (EPI), a consortium of 16 major banks and payment processors.
Online Edition – Issue 26:02:01
Agentic commerce, Part 2: Rethinking intelligence and trust
Digital assistants are hardly new to consumers and businesses. Technology-driven brands have been integrating virtual assistants, chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) systems into phones, homes and websites for decades. Each integration has taken us farther away from checkout lanes, printed receipts and plastic credit cards.
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Community Voices
This week's featured contributor:
Patti Murphy and James Shepherd
Moderated by Patti Murphy, senior editor at The Green Sheet Inc., and CCSalesPro CEO James Shepherd, this podcast provides timely information and actionable advice to the industry's feet on the street.
Merchant Sales Podcast
James Shephard & Patti Murphy
February 16th, 2026
Real-Time Payments (RTP): The Future of Instant Money Movement
Real-time payments are already transforming how money moves, but most payment professionals still don’t understand the opportunity.
In this episode of the Merchant Sales Podcast, James Shepherd and Patti Murphy sit down with Jim Colassano, Senior Vice President at The Clearing House, to break down the RTP (Real-Time Payments) network and why instant money movement could reshape merchant settlement, cash flow, disbursements, and business payments. They discuss how payments can settle in seconds, why adoption is accelerating, and what ISOs and processors need to do now to stay competitive.
The episode also includes a Today in Payments segment with Patti Murphy covering major industry news, including interchange legislation, consumer spending trends, digital wallet adoption, and emerging payment innovations.
If you’re a merchant sales agent, ISO owner, or payments professional, this episode will help you understand one of the biggest infrastructure shifts happening in the payments industry today.
Company profile from GS260101
Process globally with your own branded, multi-acquirer platform
In April 2020, right after a once-in-a-century earthquake roiled Croatia, Field39 was born. The founders wanted to shake up cross-border commerce with a technology suite and knowledge base where people could learn about the technologies that power financial transactions.
