Venmo

Venmo is a mobile payment service owned by PayPal. Venmo account holders can transfer funds to others via a mobile phone app; both the sender and receiver have to live in the U.S. Venmo is a type of payment rail. It handled $31 billion in transactions in the first quarter of 2020.

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Zelle Eyeing Expansion Into Small Business Payments
Zelle Eyeing Expansion Into Small Business Payments
August 16, 2018  |  Payment Methods

Zelle, the digital payment app that enables consumers to send money to friends and family, is gearing up to expand its offering to enable customers...

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Square Cash Downloads Top Venmo
Square Cash Downloads Top Venmo
August 15, 2018  |  Mobile Payments

Cumulative downloads of Square‘s Cash App surpassed PayPal‘s Venmo for the first time ever after Square’s service grew three times faster than its rival in July....

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A Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape
A Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape
August 10, 2018  |  Ecosystems

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. Europe’s...

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Abercrombie & Fitch Adds Venmo To Mobile Apps
Abercrombie & Fitch Adds Venmo To Mobile Apps
August 08, 2018  |  Retail

Abercrombie & Fitch is adding Venmo to its app, and the Hollister app, in an effort to bring a payment option geared towards millennials to...

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Venmo Critics Cite Ongoing Privacy Concerns
Venmo Critics Cite Ongoing Privacy Concerns
August 08, 2018  |  Mobile Payments

As PayPal tries to turn Venmo into a mainstream payments app, there are concerns over consumer privacy. Venmo users link their bank accounts or credit...

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Zelle P2P Volume Grew To $28 Billion In Q2, Against Venmo’s $14 Billion
Zelle P2P Volume Grew To $28 Billion In Q2, Against Venmo’s $14 Billion
July 26, 2018  |  Digital Payments

Venmo, the P2P service owned by PayPal, took in more than $14 billion in payments volume during the second quarter of 2018, a 78 percent...

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PayPal Pays A Price For A Disappointing Revenue Forecast
PayPal Pays A Price For A Disappointing Revenue Forecast
July 26, 2018  |  Earnings

PayPal second quarter earnings were in yesterday (July 25), and despite the fact that PayPal beat analysts’ expectations on revenue, usership and earnings (and announced...

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Winning, Losing And Playing Catch-Up
Winning, Losing And Playing Catch-Up
July 23, 2018  |  Data Dive

While the world loves to pick winners and losers – and will occasionally turn things into horse races that possibly shouldn’t be – it is...

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Snapchat Exits P2P
Snapchat Exits P2P
July 23, 2018  |  Mobile Payments

Snapchat is closing down Snapcash, its peer-to-peer payment space, on August 30. According to reports, there is code buried in Snapchat’s Android app that has...

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