BPC to launch national switch for Palestine Monetary Authority

July 31, 2013

BPC Banking Technologies has announced an agreement with the Palestine Monetary Authority to implement a national switch electronic payment system. The PMA is…

What's in your wallet, and is that your coffee?

by Richard Buckle — Founder and CEO, Pyalla Technologies, LLC

It's good to be back behind my desk after a couple of weeks off. The July 4th week was spent alongside a lake in Minnesota — something I have wanted to do ever…

MoneyGram acquisition of Nexxo kiosks expands financial services

July 31, 2013

MoneyGram has agreed to acquire the money transfer kiosk business of Nexxo Financial — a deal that solidifies MoneyGram's position as the preferred money…

Increased call for safety device mandate in wake of Boston ATM slaying

July 31, 2013

Some Massachusetts legislators and ATM safety advocates are pushing to mandate safety devices at bank ATMs in the wake of the murder of a 24-year-old woman who…

Illinois bank will allow Diebold ATM withdrawals via mobile wallet

July 30, 2013

An Illinois bank has rolled out a service that will enable customers to use their cellphones to withdraw cash from Diebold ATMs. Mobile Cash Access, from…

Cardtronics introduces 'Preferred Branding' for FIs

July 30, 2013

Retail ATM operator Cardtronics Inc. has expanded its ATM branding product line with the launch of a new program — Preferred Branding — that increases FI and…

NIB Bank calls on Euronet Pakistan for debit, prepaid card solutions

July 30, 2013

Euronet Pakistan and NIB Bank Ltd. have signed an agreement under which Euronet will provide outsourced services for the bank's MasterCard and Visa EMV debit…

BB&T buys branding rights to PAI-owned ATMs in Atlanta Rite Aid stores

July 30, 2013

Payment Alliance International, a retail ATM solutions provider, and BB&T Corp., a financial services holding company with $181 billion in assets, have…

INETCO intros APM for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus users

July 30, 2013

INETCO Systems Ltd., a provider of application performance monitoring software, has announced the availability of a real-time alert feed to IBM Tivoli…

Turkey's largest bank takes to Wincor cash recyclers

July 30, 2013

Turkey's largest bank in terms of assets, Türkiye Is Bankasi, has ordered 335 CINEO cash recycling systems from Wincor Nixdorf. The company will also provide…

ATM auto recovery

by atm Atom — blogger, atmatom

The average ATM owner may not be aware of this, but the XScale/X2 (including Traverse and ARGO) ATM platform has built-in methods to auto recover from…

Update: The EMV common debit solution

Getting 4 AIDs into place (if that's what it comes down to) is going to take some skill.

Investors Bank taps Fiserv for enterprise tech solution

July 29, 2013

Investors Bank, a Short Hills, N.J., community FI with $12.8 billion in assets, has chosen an enterprise-wide banking software solution from Fiserv. The system…

'White hat' ATM hacker dead at 35

July 29, 2013

After discovering security flaws that allowed him to hack into ATMs both virtually and physically, Barnaby Jack could've made himself a very wealthy man.

NCR multi-vendor ATM software drives Ningbo network

July 29, 2013

Shenzhen, China-based Bank of Ningbo has gone live with NCR APTRA Edge, a multi-vendor open ATM software platform from NCR Corp. The bank's fleet of more than…

Next generation cash management in the cloud

by Brendan Burge

Editor’s Note: Counting on Currency offers the following blog not as a recommendation or confirmation of the solution, but simply as a newsworthy new idea.

5 indicted in data theft from 160 million consumer accounts

July 25, 2013

On Thursday, U.S. authorities indicted five men from the former Soviet Union for data breaches that involved theft of information for 160 million consumer…

Ukash, Bank Machine team up for cardless cash withdrawal

July 25, 2013

E-commerce cash payments company Ukash and independent U.K. ATM operator Bank Machine have teamed up to dispense online cash through ATMs. The companies' new…

Sri Lankan ATMs linked up at last

July 25, 2013

Mature ATM markets have taken common switches for granted for some years now. But it's something Sri Lankans are only about to enjoy.

Angola's ATM network tiny but growing

July 25, 2013

Angola's ATM network is poised for growth, with expectations that, within months, it will grow from the current average of 700,000 ATM transactions per day to…