TL;DR: Consumers and small businesses alike want fast, easy digital payments options. If your financial institution isn't in the Zelle Network®, you might see business opportunities—and customers—slip away.  

Zelle® gives financial institutions a home...

Cincinnati, OH

 

Fifth Third Bank announced today that it will join Early Warning’s ZelleSM Network to offer customers a safe, fast way to make person-to-person (P2P) payments. With ZelleSM, money can be sent by simply using the recipient’s mobile...

Year-over-year sent payment values increased by 74%, while payment transactions increased by 61%.
More than half of consumers sending money withZelle® are ages 25-54, part of both the Millennial and Generation X demographics, while boomers, ages 55- 72, have recently increased their overall use of Zelle®.
Zelle® has teamed up with the Detroit Pistons to help Detroit's community invest in their financial future and learn how to protect themselves from fraud and scams.
Zelle Network® Processes 100MM transactions in the first half of 2017; and, New Zelle App Extends Network Reach, and Enhances Mobile Banking Experiences

Scottsdale, AZ

 

Beginning this month, more than 86-million U.S. mobile banking consumers will be able to send and receive money through Zelle® – a new person-to-person (P2P) payments network from bank-owned Early Warning Services. Changing the way...

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: JKHY), a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry, announced today that it is partnering with Early Warning Services, LLC, the network operator behind Zelle®, to make faster payments more readily available for minority-owned depository institutions (MDIs).
"Today, more than 1,000 banks and credits unions are currently contracted to participate on the Zelle Network®, including 731 that are live today and processing transactions,” said Al Ko, CEO of Early Warning Services, LLC.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, stimulus fraud was rampant.  Now, building on the success of pandemic-driven tactics, fraudsters are turning their attention to new account openings.   

As account openings surge and application processes continue to move...

A considerable portion of the U.S. population doesn't have fair and affordable access to financial services. Nearly 50 million Americans1, disproportionally comprised of poor and minority communities, cannot fully participate in our nation's banking...