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Venmo, Zelle and Cash App leave users vulnerable to fraud - Manhattan DA

Finextra

Manhattan's district attorney has written to the firms behind Venmo, Zelle and the Cash App, calling on them to up their security measures in the face of growing fraud.

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PayPal finally reveals Venmo user count, as Zelle keeps growing

Payments Source

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.

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PNC Blocks Venmo, Tells Users To Switch To Zelle

PYMNTS

In one example, PNC Bank clients stated that they were unable to connect accounts to Venmo , the payment service owned by PayPal. And according to tweets from PNC, the bank has suggested that those Venmo users switch to Zelle, the payments offering that is run by Early Warning Systems, in turn owned by a consortium of banks — including PNC.

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Zelle, Venmo P2P Payments Race Gains Fresh Fuel In Q3

PYMNTS

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.

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Visa+ expands its availability for PayPal and Venmo users across the US

Tearsheet

At the time, Visa+ outlined plans to make the service widely available to Venmo and PayPal users in the US by mid-2024. Expanding on last year’s announcement, the recent development marks the official [consumer] launch of the service with inaugural partners PayPal, Venmo, and DailyPay.

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Squeezed by Zelle and poor financials, Venmo prunes browser payments

Payments Source

As competition from the bank-powered Zelle mounts, the popular social P2P app Venmo is phasing out support for online payments in favor of its mobile app.

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Zelle doubles down on its un-Venmo strategy

Payments Source

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.

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