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Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.-based Co-op Financial Services has signed with TEKchand LLC for technology that allows its credit union clients to remotely control and manipulate marketing messages, and access and research transaction reports.

The Bank of Uganda has issued a public warning concerning fraud involving ATMs and dormant bank accounts and is putting a ceiling on online funds transfers, the bank’s spokesperson tells PaymentsSource.

Newtek Business Services Inc., a small-business services company, once again is a preferred vendor to the more than 200 car dealers belonging to the General Motors Minority Dealers Association, New York-based Newtek announced this week.

Dutch Bangla Bank Ltd. has reached an agreement to provide Southeast Bank Ltd.’s debit cardholders access to its ATM and point-of-sale debit networks in Bangladesh, the two Dhaka-based banks announced in a statement.

Travelex, the United Kingdom-based foreign-exchange company, has selected Cardtronics Inc. to manage Travelex’s United States-based ATM network.

Consumers Credit Union has switched to using PSCU Financial Services to handle its debit card and ATM processing, Jodi Gray, the Waukegan, Ill.-based credit union’s Visa card manager, tells PaymentsSource.

Mobile phones may soon be able to initiate automated clearing house transactions from checks, an advance that could hasten adoption of wireless devices for business-to-business payments.

In a sign that the efforts of the Secure Remote Payment Council are gaining notice in the industry, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has joined the organization as a general member and as a member of its board of directors.

Acculynk Inc., which enables merchants to accept PIN-debit purchases online, is broadening its offerings to include online card processing and is making its products available for resale through independent sales organizations, the company announced Wednesday.

Hoping to extend its reach to mobile merchants, USA ePay, a payment gateway, this week launched a portable card-acceptance machine that connects to Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod Touch products.

Filipino citizens can now make government payments online using payment cards and mobile-phone wallets under an administrative order the country’s Department of Finance passed with the Department of Trade and Industry, an official from the financial agency tells PaymentsSource.

In anticipation of the soccer World Cup in South Africa, United Kingdom-based Prepaid Financial Services has launched a MasterCard-branded prepaid travel card available in South African rand. The company anticipates at least 60,000 UK consumers will travel to South Africa to watch the event, which begins June 11.

Adyen Inc., a Netherlands-based online payment gateway company, is expanding into the United States, the company announced April 5.

PaySecure later this year will become a standard payment option on the airline’s Web site, Deb Bauman, Sun Country chief information officer, wrote in an e-mail message.

The automated clearing house network is maturing, bringing slower growth rates and probably slowing fee revenue.

PayPal Inc.'s mobile payment application has been downloaded more than a million times since it was released three weeks ago on Apple Inc.'s App Store.

Medical marijuana dispensaries in three states have agreed to use payment processing services from Cannabis Medical Solutions Inc.

U.S. merchant compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard has changed little since last fall, according to latest compliance update Visa Inc. released this week.

Dirk Rossmann GmbH, a German drugstore chain, is deploying 5,000 Hypercom Corp. Artema Hybrid payment terminals in more than 1,000 locations throughout Germany, the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based point-of-sale terminal maker announced Tuesday.

Taiwantrade.com has inked a payments acceptance deal with international online payments provider PayPal Inc., an official from Taiwan’s national business-to-business e-commerce platform tells PaymentsSource. PayPal is a unit of eBay Inc.