Payments Dive

JUNE 20, 2025

Skip to main content CONTINUE TO SITE ➞ Dont miss tomorrows Payments industry news Let Payments Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Justin Sullivan via Getty Images Dive Brief: Tensec, the Palo Alto, California-based cross-border payments startup, has raised $12 million, the company announced Wednesday.

Cross-Border Payments

Payments Dive

JULY 17, 2025

Skip to main content CONTINUE TO SITE ➞ Dont miss tomorrows Payments industry news Let Payments Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. For the moment, stablecoins are more often serving as a store of value, an investment vehicle, than a method of payment. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

Stablecoins

Payments Dive

JULY 22, 2025

Skip to main content CONTINUE TO SITE ➞ Dont miss tomorrows Payments industry news Let Payments Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Clover will launch PracticePay, a payment system intended for use by small and medium-sized healthcare companies, in early 2026, a Monday news release said.

Privacy

Payments Dive

JULY 17, 2025

The bank's annual survey of midsize companies showed the popularity of business-to-consumer alternative payment types slipped this year.

Zelle

Cardfellow

JUNE 25, 2025

You want to make sure your site is engaging, well-written, and optimized for your buyer’s journey – and your payments experience is a big part of that. When it comes to ecommerce payments, you have several options. Here’s a list of some of the pros and cons to accepting ecommerce payments in a variety of ways.

Venmo

Cardfellow

JUNE 16, 2025

FedNow is a real-time payment system created by the US Federal Reserve that went live in the summer of 2023. Banks could choose to allow instant payments between users, mimicking features offered by digital wallet transfers services such as Venmo. What is FedNow? This is the Authorization step. Are there competitors to FedNow?

FedNow

Payments Dive

JULY 21, 2025

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Real Time Payments

Payments Dive

JUNE 9, 2025

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Blocks

Payments Dive

AUGUST 4, 2025

Skip to main content CONTINUE TO SITE ➞ Dont miss tomorrows Payments industry news Let Payments Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Recommended Reading CFPB to revise open banking rule By Justin Bachman • July 29, 2025 How open banking will shape the future of payments By Patrick Cooley • Oct.

Visa

Payments Dive

AUGUST 4, 2025

Skip to main content CONTINUE TO SITE ➞ Dont miss tomorrows Payments industry news Let Payments Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Fintech firms have installed new C-suite executives, particularly chief financial officers, as they build out their digital payments offerings and expand.

Bitcoin

Payments Dive

JULY 21, 2025

Skip to main content CONTINUE TO SITE ➞ Dont miss tomorrows Payments industry news Let Payments Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Will they replace the existing payment rails? Are they a good proxy and a good alternative to ACH and Swift payments and wires and things like that? I think so.”

Stablecoins

Payments Dive

JUNE 30, 2025

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JULY 21, 2025

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Consumer

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

And might digital payments be in that $100 trillion classification? In an interview with CNBC, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman estimated the market will come into that size, noting, “That’s sort of the market — total adjustable market — we’re playing into.” P2P, or peer-to-peer payments, is exploding in the market.

PayPal

PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Zelle, traditional banks’ answer to Venmo and Paypal, continues to grow in usage, not only with customers but with banking institutions as well, according to reports. Zelle’s operator, Early Warning Services, reported a Q4 payment volume of $35 billion, which is up 12 percent from Q3 and 61 percent from a year before.

Zelle

Payments Dive

JANUARY 24, 2023

The wallet, which is expected to launch in the second half of the year, aims to compete with PayPal and Apple, sources told The Wall Street Journal. But serious competition may take a while, an analyst said.

Zelle

Payments Source

APRIL 24, 2019

Venmo has more than 40 million active users, PayPal has revealed for the first time. This finally gives the market a sense of how popular Venmo is, and sheds a little light on how it compares to the bank-run Zelle service.

Zelle

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

COVID-era fraudsters use scams that range from impersonating tax officials to selling fake PPE on P2P payment apps. Fighting these threats requires an equally wide range of defenses, says Jamie Armistead, Zelle vice president. How P2P Payment App Zelle Leverages AI To Fight Scams And Frauds.

Zelle

PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

Digital payment company Zelle sent $39 billion through its network on 147 million transactions during the first quarter of this year, the company said in a news release. Payment values went up 54 percent year over year, and payment volume increased 72 percent. Zelle also had a fortuitous fourth quarter , along with Venmo.

Zelle

Finextra

APRIL 17, 2025

Bolt has released a new SuperApp combining one-click crypto and everyday payments to compete with the likes of Coinbase, Zelle and PayPal.

Zelle

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The third quarter proved more than kind to peer-to-peer (P2P) payments , at least according to financial results for the two main competitors, Zelle and Venmo , which continue to duke it out for market share and consumer loyalty — and doing so as another big digital player prepares to debut a P2P offering. Zelle Enrollment Boost.

Zelle

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

PayPal and Discover have joined forces to allow customers to use the credit card’s Cashback Bonus or Miles to buy things through PayPal, according to a Monday (Nov. Our customers loved seeing PayPal added to this year’s categories in the 5% Cashback program. 25) press release. .

PayPal

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2019

Venmo, the digital payments company, is reportedly considering launching credit cards as a way to profit from its large customer base. Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, is reportedly settling on Synchrony Financial to issue the Venmo credit card. With digital payments starting to be adopted by consumers in the U.S.,

Venmo

Tearsheet

APRIL 22, 2024

Visa introduced the Visa+ service in April last year to bridge the gap among various apps in the peer-to-peer (P2P) payments space, allowing for real-time payouts to participating digital wallets. At the time, Visa+ outlined plans to make the service widely available to Venmo and PayPal users in the US by mid-2024.

Venmo

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As a result, their payment, or disbursement , preferences are also changing. They want control over their payments, too. PYMNTS research found that 51 percent of full-time gig workers prefer to be paid via PayPal , which outranked all other forms of payment, including direct deposit. There are still 13,198 U.S.

Direct Deposit

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Zelle , the digital payment app that enables consumers to send money to friends and family, is gearing up to expand its offering to enable customers to pay small businesses. Zelle is backed by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and other banks. Bloomberg, citing Crone Consulting, reported that P2P payments to businesses in the U.S.

Zelle

Payments Source

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The bank-powered P-to-P app Zelle officially launched in June with a mostly consistent brand across all of its bank partners, but it still struggles with awareness over PayPal's Venmo, which doesn't share its advantage of living inside banks' mobile apps.

Zelle

PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

The spotlight burned brighter for peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services in the first quarter of 2019, with those payment methods finding popularity among more consumers. Perhaps the biggest story in P2P, though, is the ongoing battle between P2P providers Zelle (operated by Early Warning Services ) and Venmo (owned by PayPal ).

P2P

Payments Source

JUNE 12, 2017

This morning the bank owned P-to-P network, Zelle, is formally going live, enabling direct transfer of funds across thirty U.S. There are a lot of questions around whether it can compete with the current kings of P-to-P — Venmo and its parent company PayPal — but Zelle may not be aiming to take them head-on just yet.

Zelle

Payments Source

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The Zelle network processed 116 million transactions during the July-September 2018 timeframe with a total value of $32 billion in payments.

Zelle

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One Inc , the leading payments network for the insurance industry, has announced that Slide Insurance (‘Slide’) has successfully implemented the full suite of One Inc’s best-in-class digital payments solutions PremiumPay® and ClaimsPay® , for both inbound and outbound payments.

Digital Payments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

American Express got to enjoy the big win of the week when an Appeals Court judge overturned an earlier decision that would allow merchants to steer customers away from Amex to other cheaper forms of payment. But since payments and commerce have our undivided interest, we’ll make sure you start the week watching the right items.

PayPal

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In one example, PNC Bank clients stated that they were unable to connect accounts to Venmo , the payment service owned by PayPal. If you are having this difficulty, you may want to explore alternative means of money movement, such as Zelle, or work directly with Venmo on other options,” said PNC.

Venmo

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

PayPal is making deft maneuvers in its efforts to quickly build and scale a global payments platform. We take a look at the recent goings on in PayPal’s ecosystem. PayPal is intent on being accepted as a method of payment at store checkouts throughout Mastercard’s and Visa’s mobile contactless payments systems.

PayPal

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. PayPal, as a whole, had some 242 customer accounts as of Dec. P2P Numbers.

Venmo

TechCrunch Fintech

APRIL 16, 2025

He describes the new product as one-click crypto and everyday payments in a single platform, in […] While the founder of one-click checkout company Bolt re-assumed its helm as CEO in March, Breslow is unveiling Wednesday a new superapp that he hopes will formally mark his return as the fintechs leader.

Zelle

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The third quarter proved more than kind to P2P payments , at least according to financial results for the two main competitors, Zelle and Venmo , which continue to duke it out for market share and consumer loyalty — and doing so as another big digital player prepares to debut a P2P offering. Zelle Enrollment Boost. Venmo Growth.

Zelle