The payments industry continues to reckon with the myriad ways the pandemic has permanently reshaped how people pay businesses and other people. One key example is how individuals are paying each other compared to just a couple of years ago, and how payment networks are responding. In just the two …

Visa Inc. announced a pilot for Visa+, a service that allows users to move payments between rival peer-to-peer payments networks. The pilot, set to launch later this year, will begin with transfers between PayPal and Venmo, a PayPal-owned network, but plans are to include P2P services DailyPay, i2c, TabaPay, and Western …

The discussion about fraud in Zelle and other person-to-person payment apps focuses on the wrong question. Providers, industry observers, and regulators are all discussing what should happen when someone is scammed out of money on these apps. Recent conversations have revolved around whether or not banks, payments providers, or the …

An ongoing controversy regarding consumer losses to authorized but fraudulent transfers on the Zelle peer-to-peer platform has stirred at least some of the country’s biggest banks to work out a range of solutions, including wider adoption of scam defense and detection technology, sources tell Digital Transactions. This development comes as …

Some 12% of U.S. customers have lost money to fraud on a peer-to-peer payment network, while 11% have seen it happen to a family member, according to survey results released earlier this month by J.D. Power. The networks cited by the respondents were Zelle, Venmo, and PayPal. For the survey, …

An ongoing controversy regarding consumer losses to authorized but fraudulent transfers on the Zelle peer-to-peer platform has stirred at least some of the country’s biggest banks to work out a range of solutions, including wider adoption of scam defense and detection technology, sources tell Digital Transactions News. This development comes …

Varo Bank early Tuesday announced it has become the first digital neobank to be admitted to the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network. The bank, a unit of the 7-year-old, San Francisco-based Varo Money Inc., said it will now offer payments via Zelle through its mobile app. “Adding Zelle to our product …