Zelle to expand peer-to-peer payment service to India this year

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The Associated Press

Thu, June 11, 2026 astatine 7:57 AM CDT 1 min read

NEW YORK (AP) — Peer-to-peer outgo work Zelle volition grow to India aboriginal this year, the outgo service's archetypal planetary marketplace since the outgo work launched astir a decennary ago.

Early Warning Services, the relation of the Zelle network, said it was choosing India arsenic a “natural starting point” for its planetary expansion. Roughly a 3rd of each remittances that are sent to India each twelvemonth travel from the United States, according to India's cardinal bank.

Early Warning Services expects to grow to different planetary markets. Along with the India announcement, the institution said it volition beryllium creating its ain U.S. dollar-backed unchangeable coin known arsenic ZelleUSD that volition work a backbone for different planetary markets.

Since launching 9 years ago, Zelle has go 1 of the much fashionable ways for Americans to nonstop wealth to others straight from their slope accounts. Consumers and tiny businesses sent much than $1.2 trillion done Zelle successful 2025, according to Early Warning Services.

But Zelle's maturation trajectory has not been wholly smooth. The outgo web has faced years of scrutiny implicit fraud and unauthorized transfers, including a suit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau successful December 2024. That suit was dropped with prejudice successful March 2025 aft the Trump Administration took implicit the bureau and mostly dropped each enforcement actions against immoderate fiscal companies.

A consequent suit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James with akin allegations is present winding its mode done the New York tribunal system.

EWS is jointly owned by 7 of the nation's largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

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