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Mobile payments and blockchain have challenged the status quo of cross-border money transfers, putting pressure on traditional players. Yet money can be stubbornly hard to move, and the old systems hard to improve upon. A conversation between the leader of Zelle, a bank-owned mobile payments app that has eclipsed Venmo in transactions, and the CEO of 168-year-old Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments.rLou Anne Alexander, Group President, Payment Solutions, Early Warning ServicesrHikmet Ersek, President and CEO, Western UnionrModerator: Robert Hackett, Co-chair, Brainstorm Finance; Co-founding Editor, The Ledger; Senior Writer, FORTUNE
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