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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. However, an estimate from late last year projected that Venmo would have 22.9

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Zelle Catches A Growth Wave, Threatening Venmo

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The Q2 earnings season has just kicked off, and it’s already helping shedding light on recent developments in the peer-to-peer (P2P) world — most notably, the shape of the ongoing competition between Zelle and Venmo. The good news about Zelle came earlier this week when Bank of America (BoA) released its second-quarter financials.

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As P2P Payments Spreads Its Wings, Challenges Loom

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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 ). The Zelle network is used by an upwards of 5,391 financial institutions (FIs), either through a mobile banking app or by registering a debit card with Zelle’s app.

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Payment Network Zelle Processed $39B During Q1

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The Zelle network is used by upwards of 5,391 financial institutions, either through a mobile banking app or by registering a debit card with Zelle’s app. Zelle also had a fortuitous fourth quarter , along with Venmo. Meanwhile, for the full year 2018, Zelle had $119 billion worth of payments via 433 million transactions.

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Sizzle Of The Week: Zelle’s Accelerating Growth

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Venmo already offers a comparable service and is popular with their user base. Zelle’s growth, of course, has the tailwinds of being integrated with the consumer’s mobile banking app – one of the stickiest applications that a consumer has because it is one of the most used.

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It’s OK, Boomer: Pondering P2P Payments and How to Fight Fraud

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I’m not big on reading tabloid confessions at the grocery checkout, but as a payments professional, I have a shocking admission to share: I am a late bloomer in adopting mainstream person-to-person (P2P) payment apps like Venmo, Cash App (owned by Square), Snapcash and a slew of others. Online, mobile or mail. Setting up Safeguards.

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Bank of America reports 84% increase in Zelle P-to-P payments

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Fast growth in use of the bank's instance of the person-to-person payments product indicates it could one day rival Venmo.

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