Zepto, an Australian real-time account-to-account (A2A) merchant payments platform, said Monday it raised a $25 million AUD Series A (about $18.8 million USD) co-led by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners. More than 100 Australian organizations, including banks, fintech companies and credit unions, use NPP (new payments platform), Australiaβs open-access infrastructure for fast payment, according to the NPP website.