Paze, the digital wallet launched last year by Early Warning Services, has loaded 150 million debit and credit card accounts onto its nascent system. Now, those bank customer card holders can opt into the wallet if they’re interested in using it. More big banks are expected to link to Paze later this year, Early Warning’s Chief Partnership Officer Eric Hoffman said. He spoke alongside Deva Annamalai, Fiserv’s head of client strategy and solutions for digital payments. The processor is partnering with EWS to attract more banks to offer the digital wallet to their customers for online purchases. With Fiserv, there is “exposure to thousands of banks,” Hoffman said, explaining how additional banks will disclose working with Paze as they announce that the service is available to those banks’ customers. As Fiserv helps bring its bank clients onto the Paze system, it will benefit from the increased transaction volume it processes through the digital wallet. Some 70% of U.S. consumers don’t use a digital wallet so there is a broad opportunity to attract new users without having to do battle with some of the long-time rivals in the field, namely Apple Pay and PayPal, Hoffman said. Paze will be directed at consumers between 35 and 65 years-old who tend to be wealthy, and have been “protectionist” in their thinking about digital wallets, Hoffman said. This group has generally avoided using digital wallets so far, but they’re likely to sign up for Paze if it’s offered by their banks, just like they did with Zelle, he said.