Breaking the bank of the cash habit

by Sherry Yang

Few things seem as counterintuitive as a bank that does not give cash to customers at its branches.

Level Four moves on to the Americas

Martin Macmillan, chief executive of Level Four, believes it's time to take his company and its flagship product, a software suite for developing ATM…

Politics

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Despite its burgeoning status, the ATM Industry Association's Government Relations Committee is already making significant strides in stopping knee-jerk ATM…

Cash handling changes on the way

The Federal Reserve is poised to make some policy changes that will force many financial institutions to change the way they think about money. The Fed hopes…

Scrip under scrutiny

Interchange fees -- or more specifically, the way they flow -- are at the center of a growing debate over scrip transactions. One scrip deployer has issued a…

Canada's retail ATM market beginning to consolidate

Though the pace of retail ATM deals in Canada has not reached the brisk clip seen in the United States, acquisition activity is beginning to pick up, say…

Tailor-made ATM

NCR's Asan, a new ATM model introduced late last year, was developed especially to solve some of the special needs of India's burgeoning self-service financial…

ATMIA wants a few

With a goal of doubling its membership by the end of 2008, the ATM Industry Association has created a special entry-level package of benefits for first-time…

Getting personal at the ATM

While the ATM is a highly efficient and convenient delivery channel, it doesn't elicit a lot of warm-and-fuzzy reactions from users. But that could change. ATM…

ATM security: the digital difference

When it comes to security, a growing number of financial institutions are going digital. They share some of the same motivations as consumers who are trading…

Small FIs, big ATM ideas

Is bigger better when it comes to introducing new ATM technologies? Maybe not, say some smaller financial institutions.

Optimistic outlook

It took 137 years for Diebold to achieve its first $1 billion sales year. Seven years later, in 2003, the company's sales reached the $2 billion milestone. It…

Processing in the house

A number of market forces, including a dwindling number of third-party transaction processors and interest in new ATM transactions, are causing more ISOs to…

ATM smash/grabs impact industry

From special bolts to GPS technology to clouds of fog, ATM operators will try nearly anything to discourage smash and grabs, thefts in which daring thieves…

On board with ISOs

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The British ATM market is in for the ride of its life, now that independent deployers are on the scene in full force. ISOs are counting on a combination of…

In the (ATM) driver's seat

Financial institutions evaluating whether they want to drive their own ATMs or outsource the function to a third party tend to focus on cost and control. A…

PC-based ATMs entering retail race

In the intensely competitive race for retail ATM locations, most manufacturers and a growing number of deployers believe that more horsepower may be what they…

Warm weather, hot technology at Wincor World

Group editor Joseph Grove just returned from Wincor World 2004 in Paderborn, Germany, where each year Wincor Nixdorf presents some of its newest technologies…

(Not) lost in translation

Channel integration remains largely out of reach for ATM owners because ATMs, teller stations, point-of-sale terminals and other devices 'speak' a different…

2003: The year in ATMs

Oddly -- or not, given the ATM industry's reputation for moving at less than lightning speed --many of the biggest stories of 2003 were virtual repeats of 2002.