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NCR Atleos wins ATMIA’s Peter Kulik Innovation Award, two ATMmy honors
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XDC Network, OrbitX Pay enable real-world stablecoins spending at over 150M merchants
17:20:18 (UTC) 02-13-2026
Global video game market to surpass $93B by 2031 as cloud gaming expands
17:18:08 (UTC) 02-13-2026
New crypto protocol Mutuum Finance (MUTM) accelerates phase 7 allocation
17:14:24 (UTC) 02-13-2026
Huntington Bank wins 15 'Best Bank' awards for service to small and midsize businesses
17:12:42 (UTC) 02-13-2026
CLPS appoints former Citi executive Simon Chiang as QCC CEO
17:10:47 (UTC) 02-13-2026
Aliya launches aliyaOS™, a closed-loop operating intelligence system for lending
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HousingWire’s 2026 Tech100 honors Tavant for innovation in mortgage, real estate tech
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Court upholds Illinois interchange prohibition
A federal judge in Chicago dealt a blow to efforts to eighty-six an Illinois law that would prohibit interchange fee assessments on sales tax and tip portions of card transactions. The Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, signed into law in 2024, had been set to take effect last July. But the state postponed enactment for a year while a banking industry challenge played out in federal district court.
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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.
James Shephard & Patti Murphy
February 16th, 2026
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.
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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.