Winners and losers from China UnionPay and Visa spat

by Dominic Hirsch — manager, Retail Banking Research

On February 11th the USA announced a formal appeal to the WTO to resolve a dispute with China about access to the local cards market. The USA argues that when…

Banks are still where the money is, but thieves are much more skilled

Today's thieves, however, are new-style bank robbers because they are technicians who can steal money from an ATM by adjusting the computer code, ordering the…

Is it all over for magstripe cards?

by Ian Kerr — CEO, Level Four

If a cardholder from the SEPA region travels to another part of the world and cannot pay because their Chip-only card doesn’t work in the magstripe-only ATM…

Optimizing transaction environments in the aftermath of the Durbin Amendment

by Marc Borbas — VP, Marketing, INETCO

Expanding transaction routing from two networks to multiple networks adds a whole new level of infrastructure and monitoring complexity for bank issuers…

U.K. agrees to allow charitable donations to be made through ATMs

U.S. consumers recently witnessed the power ATMs have in raising funds for a charity during an international crisis.

Nautilus Hyosung NH-2700CE: enhanced features and good looking curves work in any location

by Alicia Ridley — General Manager, ATMequipment.com

The NH-2700CE is a wonderful machine destined to be the new workhorse in the industry.

Did you know?

by Alan Walsh — Head of US Banking, Wincor Nixdorf

Friday is the day of the week when ATMs are most frequently used.

Five ways to increase ATM profitability

by Alicia Ridley — General Manager, ATMequipment.com

When it comes to evaluating your portfolio, it’s no surprise to find that no ATM location is the same. You might find that you may only need to make a slight…

Should You Worry About Smartphone Security?

by Robert Siciliano — speaker, IDTheftSecurity.com

Former Google Android security framework engineer Chris Palmer, who is now technology director of the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, addresses the…

Clean ATMs are cool ATMs

by Mike Lee — CEO of the ATM Industry Association, ATM Industry Association

GRGBanking recently published a fascinating white paper on ATM hygiene. In the paper, the manufacturer highlights the public health aspect of keeping ATMs…

My first touch screen experience at an ATM

by Flora Hamilton — European Manager, ATMIA

Just to remind you, the “ABIL” ATM was designed by IDEO for BBVA based on extensive customer research and developed and built under tender by NCR Corp. and…

Contactless ATMs may have sounded the death knell for skimming

La Caixa is eliminating fraud through deployment of contactless ATMs. Using technology developed by Fujitsu, cardholders wave their cards at the ATM’s card…

Stopping fraudsters in their tracks – Europe making headway against card skimming

by Ian Kerr — CEO, Level Four

Wells Fargo announced late last week that it would be the first US bank to conduct a pilot to issue chip cards to its frequent traveller customers.

Is the U.S. market tipping towards EMV?

by Lachlan Gunn — Director, BenAlpin Ltd

Two major US Banks, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo, are to pilot EMV cards with a select group of cardholders

Refining ATM Density

by Dominic Hirsch — manager, Retail Banking Research

During the recent China ATMs 2011 conference in Beijing Huang Jianjun from Agricultural Bank of China presented a chart that captured my imagination. It showed…

Identity Theft Tops Consumer Complaints for Eleventh Year

by Robert Siciliano — speaker, IDTheftSecurity.com

The Federal Trade Commission recently released the list of the most common consumer complaints in 2010. Identity theft topped the list for the eleventh year in…

'New services' and 'integration' are top priorities for the ATM channel

by Ian Kerr — CEO, Level Four

What these results show is that there is more emphasis on developing the technological capability of the channel, not just to offer customers a greater number…

Could virtual currency become king in developing countries?

by Brendan Burge

Hot on the heals of my post about a virtual currency called BitCoin, I have uncovered another rather surprising new paradigm. It would seem that increasingly…

Deposit automation bounces back

by Dominic Hirsch — manager, Retail Banking Research

Deposit automation is back. Some would argue that it never really went away, but the results of new research from RBR show that a slowdown in deployment caused…

The BitCoin Project

by Brendan Burge

BitCoin is a peer-to-peer (computationally speaking) digital currency. It is created by the user, in a controlled and secure fashion. It is given value only by…