A major Venmo outage on 3 December 2025 left over 71,000 users reporting issues, prompting many to seek reliable alternatives ...

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Consumer Reports released a report in September contending that peer-to-peer payment apps should do more to protect consumers who use their online payment platforms. Payment app companies argue that ...

If you want to send cash to someone, there’s a range of apps all claiming to offer quick, low-cost electronic money transfers via your smartphone. But knowing which is the best money transfer app for ...

Payment apps like Cash App, Zelle and Venmo have revolutionized how we handle money. These apps help us split dinner bills and bar tabs, settle up with the babysitter and chip in for the office ...

Remember when paying someone back meant digging through your bag for whatever cash you had on hand? Or, failing that, trekking to an ATM and resigning yourself to pay whatever ridiculous fee it ...

The swiftness with which you can now send, receive or transfer money at the touch of a button should not be underestimated. Spending habits aside, payment apps have made lives universally more ...

From books to dating, many aspects of life have gone digital, and wallets are no exception. Today, many Americans use the internet and smartphones to transfer money to friends, family and businesses.

In its latest rebuke of a money transfer provider, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has slammed Chime Inc. (doing business as Sendwave) for “deceiving consumers about the speed and cost of ...

People living in the United States often use mobile transfer apps to send money to family or loved ones living abroad. One of those apps, Chime Sendwave, has totaled more than $1 billion in money ...