Early Warning news and trends

Small Businesses and Consumers Complete 639 Million Transactions on Zelle in Q1
Payment Methods // April 17, 2023

Consumers’ and businesses’ use of Zelle increased about 30% year over year in the first quarter. The number of transactions completed using the peer-to-peer (P2P) payment service rose 29% to 639 million and the amount of money sent grew 31% to $180 billion, Early Warning...

Early Warning Services, Big Banks Launch ID Service Authentify
Identity // April 05, 2022

Early Warning Services LLC has teamed up with seven of America’s biggest banks to launch Authentify, an identity verification service for businesses and consumers. According to a company news release Monday (April 4), Authentify is being launched with Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, PNC...

Early Warning Says a Little ‘Healthy Friction’ Goes a Long Way in Fight Against Fraud
Security & Fraud // March 24, 2022

Romance scams. Puppy scams. Peer-to-peer (P2P) fraud. Like COVID-19 variants, the fraudsters and the scammers’ schemes continue to morph and mutate, shifting to fit the digital age. We don’t always double-check to make sure that the person on the other end of the transaction is...

New Debit Rules Pose Security Hoops for Banks — and Enterprises They Serve
Digital-First Banking // March 10, 2022

“Payments fraud isn’t localized to just one industry or one business — it’s widespread and pervasive. The fraudsters are only getting more creative,” Paramita Bhattacharjee, VP and product line leader at Early Warning Services, LLC told PYMNTS. As the new WEB Debit Account Validation Rule...

Interviews & Exclusives
Early Warning Says a Little ‘Healthy Friction’ Goes a Long Way in Fight Against Fraud

March 24, 2022
Romance scams. Puppy scams. Peer-to-peer (P2P) fraud. Like COVID-19 variants, the fraudsters and the scammers’ schemes continue to morph and mutate, shifting to fit the digital age. We don’t always double-check to make sure that the person on the other end of the transaction is legitimate before we click the button to send payment, and […]

New Debit Rules Pose Security Hoops for Banks — and Enterprises They Serve

March 10, 2022
“Payments fraud isn’t localized to just one industry or one business — it’s widespread and pervasive. The fraudsters are only getting more creative,” Paramita Bhattacharjee, VP and product line leader...

For Banking Industry, Cloud Migration a Question of When, Not If

March 03, 2022
It’s not a question of if, but when, financial services will migrate to the cloud. Early Warning Services Chief Technology Officer Milind Nagnur told PYMNTS in an interview that “every...

Peaceful Coexistence: The Need for Speed and the Necessity for Security in Real-Time Payments

February 18, 2022
Consumers always want more speed and expect security to always be top-notch, but traditionally there’s been a trade-off. More of one meant less of the other. In the latest On...

Quick Reads
Small Businesses and Consumers Complete 639 Million Transactions on Zelle in Q1

April 17, 2023
Consumers’ and businesses’ use of Zelle increased about 30% year over year in the first quarter. The number of transactions completed using the peer-to-peer (P2P) payment service rose 29% to 639 million and the amount of money sent grew 31% to $180 billion, Early Warning CEO Albert Ko said in a Monday (April 17) post […]

Early Warning Services, Big Banks Launch ID Service Authentify

April 05, 2022
Early Warning Services LLC has teamed up with seven of America’s biggest banks to launch Authentify, an identity verification service for businesses and consumers. According to a company news release...

Early Warning Services Processed More Than 170M P2P Transactions In 2016

April 18, 2017
Early Warning Services, a real-time payment, authentication and risk mitigation company, announced Monday (April 17) that financial institutions in the Zelle Network processed more than 170-million person-to-person (P2P) payments in...

Early Warning Powers U.S. Bank’s Mobile P2P Payments

March 04, 2016
U.S. Bank announced yesterday (March 3) that it is going live on Early Warning’s clearXchange network to bring its customers real-time P2P payments. What this means is that U.S. Bank customers...