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October 2026 headlines On 9 October the payments feed reported that the OCC fined American Express National Bank $350 million over anti-money-laundering deficiencies, that EU and UK banks have one year left to meet the T+1 settlement deadline, and that Mastercard will require offline payment capability so Europeans can pay during power and network outages from 2027. Anyflo, a stablecoin payments orchestration service, came out of stealth the same day after acquiring bitcoin lending platform Native. On 8 October TrueLayer raised $27 million led by CDP Venture Capital to scale its Pay by Bank service, and on 2 October Nayax completed a $350 million acquisition of IPS Group.

Research and community Finextra and ACI Worldwide published "Payments 2030: The Payoff Year", a survey of 152 industry leaders. Community members write blogs and join topic groups on payment trends, Swift, instant payments, open banking and digital banking.

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