Star One Credit Union, Payfinia Win Banking Tech USA 2025 Award for Partnership
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 5, 2025--
Payfinia, an open, real-time payments framework, announced today it won the Best Credit Union/Community Bank & FinTech Partnership by Fintech Futures' Banking Tech Awards USA 2025 with Star One Credit Union ($10.2 billion, 124,000 members). The Banking Tech Awards USA honor technology excellence and innovation in the banking and financial services sector, spotlighting the standout projects, products, services and teams driving progress in the industry.
Together, Star One and Payfinia pioneered instant payments, launching Payfinia's Instant Payment Xchange (IPX), an instant payments framework enabling members to send and receive instant payments securely 24/7/365. Through the partnership, a suite of layered fraud controls available within the IPX platform produced a lower fraud per dollar than Same Day ACH and peer-to-peer payments, an improvement in back-office efficiency and member satisfaction, and increased money movement volumes. In November 2024, with financial support from Star One, Payfinia launched a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), allowing credit unions to collectively own and drive payments innovation.
The Banking Tech Awards USA 2025 ceremony took place on May 29 th in New York, recognizing excellence across the financial technology sector. The event brought together more than 300 industry leaders, including JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and BNY, alongside innovative fintech players and technology providers.
'More consumers and businesses are requiring immediacy in their digital payment experiences. Financial institutions need to partner with service providers that have built solutions with security, user experience and efficiency in mind, and have proven performance metrics associated with users sending instant payments,' said Keith Riddle, general manager of Payfinia. 'We are honored to receive the Banking Tech Award for our partnership with Star One. Payfinia is dedicated to developing an instant payments framework that enables account holders to take control of their payments journeys, and we look forward to continuing to reimagine and improve how consumers move money.'
Since launching in 2024, Payfinia has signed several new clients, partners and investors, positioning the payments company for continued growth in 2025.
About Payfinia Inc.
Payfinia Inc. is an independent payments company and CUSO, providing community financial institutions (CFIs) access to and ownership of their instant payments services. Payfinia's flagship product offering, the Instant Payments Xchange (IPX), is a secure, scalable and affordable real-time money movement service. Additionally, Payfinia partners with third-party digital providers to integrate instant payments with traditional payment and money movement solutions, extending the technology provider's capabilities, while also providing member FIs a more robust payments ecosystem. To learn more about Payfinia, visit payfinia.com.
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