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Zelle Processes $35B In Q4 Payment Volume

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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.

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Venmo And Zelle’s P2P Battle Royale

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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. users by year’s end, behind Zelle’s 27.4 Zelle Bank Gains.

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FedNow is Live. What Changes Should Banking Expect?

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This is distinct from other customer-centric payment services like Venmo or Zelle in that its implementation hinges on the adoption by banking institutions. This is the inaugural real-time payment system from the US central bank. FedNow is accessible to all banks and credit unions. What is FedNow?

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Apple Pay Now Supported By 21 New Financial Institutions

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The new bank partnerships come as the company recently announced new features coming to Apple Pay during its worldwide developers conference in June. With mobile pay, Apple is now directly competing with PayPal, PayPal-owned Venmo, Square Cash and popular bank services like Chase QuickPay and Zelle.

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Is P2P A (Good) Trojan Horse For Banks?

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In a podcast with Karen Webster, Derek Swords, vice president of product management and electronic payments at Fiserv , pointed to the rise of Zelle , the P2P offering that logged $35 billion in payments volume in the fourth quarter of last year, up 61 percent year on year and 12 percent sequentially.

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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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In addition, he continued, FIS has brought its first bank onto the platform, and shortly 400 banks will have access to RTP. With the combined exposure through JHA, FIS, Corporate One Credit Union and others, Waterhouse estimated that RTP will reach 70 percent of the financial services market before the end of the year.

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FIs Or FinTechs: Who Will Power Banking?s Big Digital Shift?

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“We saw things like digital interactive teller utilization going up by 550 percent, for example,” he told Webster, “and online and mobile banking spiking 300 percent to 400 percent in many instances.”. He noted that P2P payment volume moving across Zelle exploded, taking mere weeks to top what had previously been annual volumes.

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