Corporations and wealthy consumers have a new option when they need to move funds internationally. HiFX, a unit of Euronet Worldwide Inc., has begun offering its services to U.S. and Canadian clients. Acquired by Leawood, Kan.-based Euronet in 2014, U.K.-based HiFX enables users to transfer funds internationally in 28 currencies, …

It may be headquartered in Leawood, Kan., but payment-services provider Euronet Worldwide Inc. looks abroad for most of its revenues. Thanks to a new deal with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., however, Euronet’s Ria unit is about to become a major force in domestic wire transfers. Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart on Thursday unveiled …

Payment processor Euronet Worldwide Inc. reported on Monday that part of its European businesses sustained a computer security breach late last year. The disclosure is of interest to the U.S. payments industry as it moves slowly toward adoption of EMV chip cards because most European cards have both a chip …

Although the door is still open for Euronet Worldwide Inc. to renew its bid for rival remittance processor MoneyGram International Inc., Euronet's chief executive says it's by no means certain his company will press ahead, despite a determined effort it made to acquire the larger processor just two months ago. …

Euronet Worldwide Inc., which on Thursday made public a stock offer valued at $1.65 billion for rival money-transfer company MoneyGram International Inc., has rejected an offer from MoneyGram to discuss the possible combination of the two companies because of a condition MoneyGram wanted to impose that would have stopped Euronet’s …

Ria Money Transfer said it is now the exclusive money-transfer provider at more than 200 U.S. PLS Check Cashers locations, a move that could expose Ria’s services to more than 3 million monthly PLS customers. Announced Tuesday, the deal enables Chicago-based PLS Financial Services Inc. to offer Ria’s money-transfer service, …

Payment-processing software provider Aurus Inc. said it will work with Early Warning Services LLC to integrate EWS’s Paze online checkout technology, with Aurus user Wakefern Food Corp. having already adopted Paze. Cash App will leave the United Kingdom market, having launched there in 2018, it announced in a Web post. The service will shut down …

Payments platform Dash Solutions has expanded an agreement with Visa Inc. to include a capability for Dash users to send real-time payments to cards, bank accounts, and mobile wallets using Visa Direct, Visa’s faster-payments platform. The payments fintech Bread Financial said its Comenity Capital Bank will issue Saks Fifth Avenue’s World Elite Mastercard and …

Mastercard Inc. reported $6.3 billion in first-quarter revenue, a 10.5% increase from $5.7 billion in the 2023 first quarter. It posted a quarterly net income of $3 billion, up 25% from $2.4 billion a year prior. Executives noted strong consumer spending, cross-border payments volume growth, and new deals across its regions …

The Merchants Payments Coalition released a 30-second TV ad that says the Credit Card Competition Act, a measure that would stipulate merchants have credit card routing choices, would prohibit China’s credit card network UnionPay from processing U.S. credit card transactions. Currently, no regulation prohibits that the MPC says. The CCCA, if passed, would …