F.N.B. Corp., with its First National Bank unit, agreed to be the sole provider of ATMs for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, said to be the third-largest U.S. rail system. The push-payments platform Checkbook announced an integration with the peer-to-peer payments provider Zelle to enable instant payments for Checkbook users. Transact Campus, a …

Six years after its launch, the RTP Network surpassed 500 million real-time payments on Saturday, network operator The Clearing House Payments Co. reported Monday. The announcement at least temporarily shines the spotlight back onto the current leader in real-time payments in the wake of last week’s much-anticipated launch of the …

With the Federal Reserve’s rollout of the FedNow real-time payments service expected by the end of the month, a regional Federal Reserve Bank official on Wednesday outlined a roadmap for the new network that includes network interoperability, the possible addition of peer-to-peer payments, and, overall, the prospect of fewer payment …

Music-technology provider SoundExchange announced it is adding PayPal and Venmo as options for royalty payments to registered creators. The two payments channels join CashApp and Zelle as payout options on the platform. Tulip, a point-of-sale technology provider for retailers, said it will incorporate payments services from Stripe Inc. Dollar General announced DG Cash …

Peer-to-peer transfers have turned into big business, but one nagging problem remains: there’s no interoperability between networks. Visa is forging a solution, though there are complications.  Peer-to-peer payments have in a relatively short period of time become ingrained in consumers’ daily lives. Whether it’s sending a family member birthday cash, …

Members of the U.S. military are reporting problems with digital payments apps more frequently than the general population, and peer-to-peer payment apps account for more of those complaints than any other type of payments technology, according to data released Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB reported receiving, …

Cash App and Venmo, peer-to-peer payment services from Block Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc., respectively, are under scrutiny from four U.S. senators over their fraud-protection efforts. In letters dated June 15 and sent to each company, the senators requested data on the volume of fraud reports the networks have received …

U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday sent letters to Block Inc.’s Cash App and to PayPal pointing to “reports of widespread fraud and scams” on Cash App and Venmo and requesting data on the volume of reports of fraud …

JPMorgan Chase & Co. late on Friday said it had resolved an issue that was generating duplicate online transactions and fees on customers’ checking accounts. The bank said it was issuing refunds or reversing transactions. At least some of the transactions had been generated through the Zelle peer-to-peer payments platform, though …

The fraud that threatens real-time payments is quicker—and demands quicker action. Today’s world of instant gratification is about to take another big leap forward in July when a second real-time payments network debuts with the launch of FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s instant-payment network. Announced as a concept in 2019, two …