Another Reality Check – Zelle, Venmo, Square And The Banking System
The Zelle real-time payments network is a latecomer to the world of peer-to-peer payments compared with competitors like PayPal’s Venmo or Block’s Cash App. Despite having launched eight years after Venmo and four years after Cash App, Zelle has processed more than five billion transactions worth nearly $1.5 trillion in its first five years of business. Zelle is run by a fintech company owned by seven of our country’s largest banks: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of…