A fresh report from Consumer Reports finds that two of the four peer-to-peer payments companies it evaluated have cleared up the definition of “unauthorized” transactions pertaining to fraud. The publication last reviewed Apple Cash, Cash App, Venmo, and Zelle in 2022. The issue of what is an unauthorized P2P transaction gained …

FIS Inc. said it will make a peer-to-peer payment service from Neural Payments available to its banking customers. The white-label product enables bank customers to transfer money from their accounts to anyone, regardless of weather the recipient’s financial institution uses Neural Payments and without the need to download a third-party app …

Enrolling PayPal and Venmo into the Visa+ interoperable peer-to-peer payments system may help foster even more P2P transactions, an analyst says. Visa Inc. earlier this week announced the two P2P wallets from PayPal Holdings Inc. had been enabled in the United States for Visa+. Users can sign up for a …

Prepaid card spending is on the rise, according to Fiserv Inc.’s annual Prepaid Consumer Insights Study. Some 69% of consumers surveyed say they purchased the same number of gift cards, or more, in 2023 compared to 2022. In addition, 40% of  buyers are putting at least $50 on gift cards, …

Despite its formidable reach, the social-media platform X faces a steep climb to achieve its goal of launching a peer-to-peer payments service, according to payments experts. X, formerly known as Twitter, announced in a blog post earlier this week its plans to add P2P payments to its platform this year …