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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.

Opus Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has won a US$10 million (7,406 euros) order from the State Bank of India to replace the bank’s ATM-processing platform to a dual server-based system, an official from the bank tells PaymentsSource.

The New York money transfer company CashEdge Inc. has hired Citigroup Inc. veteran Catherine Palmieri as its global head of product and marketing.

The Texas state Credit Union Department said it handled 100 written consumer complaints last year, up from 77 the year before, and complaints about overdraft fees were the most common, by far.

Raleigh, N.C.-based State Employees’ Credit Union yesterday introduced a new prepaid Visa account/card aimed at helping members better manage their money which won’t allow an overdraft.

Citizens living in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in the Indian state of Orissa now have access to kiosks they may use to pay various utility bills and city taxes, an official from the state’s Information Technology ministry tells PaymentsSource.

Emirates NBD Group has launched two magnetic stripe prepaid cards designed for different segments in the United Arab Emirates market.

Ukash, a United Kingdom-based firm that sells prepaid vouchers for online shopping, is expanding its South African presence in an agreement with supermarket chain Shoprite Holdings Ltd.

Lakeland, Fla.-based MidFlorida Credit Union is re-issuing approximately 12,000 debit cards following fraud attempts linked to the earlier data breach at Heartland Payment Systems in January of 2009.

Consumers want their card issuers to notify them by any means possible when it comes to fraud detection, a new survey says.

SocialWise Inc. is planning to take the BillMyParents online payment system it launched last year mainstream through an advertising blitz.

TA Associates, the venture capital firm that financed Cardtronics, benefitted from the rally in financial services stocks with the sale of 7 million shares in the ATM operator for $84 million.

Singer Barry Manilow wants to keep the music playing for high school music programs, and he is using a decoupled debit card as his newest instrument.

Citigroup Inc.’s ThankYou Network rewards program last week announced an Earth Day-themed promotion enabling its members to win free music downloads from Sony Music Entertainment.

VeriFone Holdings Inc. on April 2 announced the acquisition of TaxiTronic Inc.’s minority ownership in the VeriFone Transportation System joint venture the two companies formed in 2005.

Corserv Solutions Inc. earlier this month went live with an operating platform designed to enable U.S. community banks wanting to re-enter the credit card industry to own and control the business, the Atlanta-based consumer and small-business credit card loan servicing company announced.