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ACH, RTP, FedNow and Fedwire compared for engineers: limits with dates, cut-offs, ISO 20022 messages, reversal rules, Reg E vs Reg J, and API routing.
SEPA Direct Debit Core vs B2B for engineers: D-1 deadlines, 8-week refunds, mandate rules, AM04/MD06 return codes, and Stripe vs GoCardless vs Adyen.
Faster Payments, Bacs and CHAPS compared for engineers: limits, cut-offs, ISO 8583 vs ISO 20022, return codes, APP fraud cover and API routing.
Card decline codes from the API up: Visa's 2026 retry categories, Mastercard advice codes, SCA soft declines, and what Stripe and Adyen return.
A malicious arrayref crate ran build-time malware for 86 minutes. Six days later, Rust funded six maintainers. What payment developers should change.
How long a card authorisation lasts: Visa's 5/10/30-day rules, Mastercard pre-auth vs final auth, and the capture windows Stripe, Adyen and Braintree use.
How to decrypt Apple Pay EC_v1 and Google Pay ECv2 tokens, verify their signatures, rotate keys, and which PSPs accept the decrypted DPAN and cryptogram.
GitHub Copilot moved to per-token billing on 1 June, with developers reporting 10x–50x cost jumps. Why payment developers should be watching.
Trump's 19 May executive order tells the Fed to review opening master accounts to non-bank fintechs. Why payment developers should pay attention.
FCA's CASS 15 went live 7 May, forcing UK payment firms into daily reconciliation, D+1 checks and annual audits. What this asks of engineering.
Google's Agent Payments Protocol joins ACP and x402 to form a three-layer agentic commerce stack. What fintech developers building AI agent payments need to know.