Zelle – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Thu, 06 May 2021 13:11:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Zelle – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Reserve Proposes Customers to Use Their Business Zelle Accounts to Process Payments https://onvenezuela.com/reserve-proposes-customers-to-use-their-business-zelle-accounts-to-process-payments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reserve-proposes-customers-to-use-their-business-zelle-accounts-to-process-payments Thu, 06 May 2021 12:09:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=9018

However, this all shows that the company has grown immensely since the time of its introduction to Venezuela, and that is currently facing hardships to cope with the volume of Zelle transactions that are being done using its payment services. Zelle is a powerful tool in Venezuela, accepted informally in most retailers in the country, and used commonly; this is why it’s so important for Reserve to maintain an important stock of fresh Zelle dollars to be used at any given time. Full Text ->Bitcoin.com

]]>
Zelle Has Turned Dollar-Starved Venezuela Into a Cashless Test Lab https://onvenezuela.com/zelle-has-turned-dollar-starved-venezuela-into-a-cashless-test-lab/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zelle-has-turned-dollar-starved-venezuela-into-a-cashless-test-lab Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:53:49 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=6563

PayPal and Venmo may have achieved the status of verbs in the U.S., but in Venezuela, it’s Zelle—or “Zell-ey”—that’s on everyone’s lips. Across Caracas, homemade signs that read Aceptamos Zelle (We accept Zelle) dangle in store windows and off produce stands. Computer printouts of the purple company logo are taped to cash registers in supermarkets, some of which have dedicated lines for customers paying with the app. By Andrew Rosati, Alex Vasquez and Jennifer Surane. Full Text -> Bloomberg

]]>
Zelle Restores Transfer Service for Venezuela’s Wells Fargo Clients https://onvenezuela.com/zelle-restores-transfer-service-for-venezuelas-wells-fargo-clients/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zelle-restores-transfer-service-for-venezuelas-wells-fargo-clients Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:12:50 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=6060

Zelle, the US-based digital payment network, restored its money wire services to an undetermined number of Wells Fargo clients living in Venezuela after suspending the access to their accounts on June 26, local financial daily Banca y Negocios reported on Thursday. Full Text -> Latin American Herald Tribune

]]>
Wells Fargo shuts off Zelle in Venezuela, but crypto solutions abound https://onvenezuela.com/wells-fargo-shuts-off-zelle-in-venezuela-but-crypto-solutions-abound/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wells-fargo-shuts-off-zelle-in-venezuela-but-crypto-solutions-abound Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:18:13 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=3754

US bank Wells Fargo notified customers that it will no longer support the use of popular payments service Zelle in Venezuela. Crypto to the rescue? By Jose Antonio Lanz. Full Text -> Decrypt

]]>