Mastercard Inc. introduced a so-called sonic brand identity, including a melody that will play when users deploy Mastercard in physical, digital, or voice commerce. Wells Fargo & Co. said late Thursday that its ATMs were back in service after an outage affected the bank’s ATMs, online and mobile banking services, …

The stock-market volatility in October, which saw the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index decrease 7.8% by the end of the month, spared few of the publicly held payment processors tracked by Barrington Research, a Chicago-based investment firm. In its monthly report, Barrington Research says only Puerto Rico-based Evertec Inc., …

Across the world, governments are cracking down on immigration. Cross-border payments, however, continue to grow with the global economy. Will blockchain be next? President Donald Trump has made cracking down on both illegal and legal immigration to the United States a showpiece, though controversial, policy of his administration. European countries, …

E-commerce payments provider CardinalCommerce said it completed its first series of 3-D Secure 2.1 transactions with American Express Co., Mastercard Inc., and Visa Inc. The transactions, which were not part of a test, were part of an early-adopter program in which merchants and issuers enabled EMV 3-D Secure 2.1 via CardinalCommerce, …

Through the years, the network game hasn’t changed. Payment systems need volume, and that means interoperability with other networks. The key is to be smart about it. The payments world is a patchwork of overlapping and interdependent networks. For success, networks need a path or paths to critical mass. For …

Xoom, the online money-transfer service that PayPal Holdings Inc. acquired in 2015, will enter 60 more countries and expand in 26 more under a deal announced Tuesday with Euronet Worldwide Inc.’s Ria money-transfer subsidiary. The pact enables Xoom payment recipients to pick up cash transfers from senders, most of whom …

Switch Inc., whose CardSavr application programming interface allows cardholders to manage card-on-file transactions and updates, said it is merging its technology with voice technology to make it possible for consumers to inquire about and update payment data with merchants via voice command. Custom Business Solutions Inc., a reseller of the …

Payments industry veteran Dan Henry has been named chairman of 3PEA International Inc., a prepaid card program manager. President and chief executive Mark Newcomer, who co-founded the company and has served as chairman since 2006, will become vice chairman. Henry was until recently chief executive of prepaid card specialist NetSpend, …

We list 37 entries this year, of which only three appeared in our original Guide nine years ago. This year’s Field Guide represents our 10th annual effort to catalog the broad currents in electronic payments by listing some of the more salient players providing alternatives to the big network brands. …

Customers of safeTstep, the business-to-business division of Payless ShoeSource, can now use PayNearMe to pay for online orders with cash at more than 27,000 U.S. locations, Payless said. This follows an earlier announcement that consumers can use PayNearMe for their Payless.com purchases. The Zelle person-to-person payments network moved more than …