Square’s Investment in Cash App Beginning to Bear Fruit

Square’s (SQ) peer-to-peer payment service Cash app is now more popular than PayPal’s (PYPL) competing service Venmo, according to data from app research firm Sensor Tower and Wall Street firm Nomura Instinet. Cash app’s accumulative downloads hit 33.5 million at the end of July, surpassing Venmo’s cumulative downloads of 32.9 million, Nomura wrote in a research note cited by CNBC. The Cash app has never racked up more downloads than Venmo, so the data indicate a milestone for Square in its race with PayPal to dominate the peer-to-peer payment market.