Japan's FTC investigating ATM charges

February 25, 2003

TOKYO -- Japan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating the nation's top four banks to see if they colluded to level new charges for using ATMs on Saturdays…

Elan signs 8 FIs for processing, other ATM services

February 25, 2003

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Transaction processor Elan Financial Services recently signed eight financial institutions that will utilize Elan's ATM and debit card…

Bank of China, Visa to pilot SMS transactions

February 25, 2003

HONG KONG -- As ATM deployers slowly move toward offering transactions such as bill payment and movie ticket purchases at the ATM, a partnership between Bank…

Arizona lawmakers debating check-cashing fees, assessed at ATMs or elsewhere

February 25, 2003

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Arizona lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow day-labor companies to provide check-cashing services to their workers if they…

ACI agrees to recommend NCR's APTRA to its users

February 25, 2003

OMAHA, Neb. and DAYTON, Ohio -- ACI Worldwide (Nasdaq:TSAI) and NCR Corporation announced an exclusive referral partnership that includes plans to jointly…

eFunds wants to boost ATM margins

The financial performance of eFunds' ATM Management business was beset by shrinking margins in 2002. The company wants to reverse that trend in '03 under the…

ATM America to sell NexTran ATMs

February 23, 2003

SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- NexTran Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of South Korea's Chungho ComNet Co., says that Columbia, S.C.-based ATM America has become a…

Companies offer classes for TG-3 certification

February 23, 2003

CONCORD, N.C. -- Abraham & Associates, Inc. and Fagan & Associates are offering four-day classes that will result in the necessary certification…

Cardtronics buys mall ATM contracts

February 23, 2003

HOUSTON -- Cardtronics says it has acquired the ATMs and related transaction processing contracts for 22 locations in 10 shopping malls across the country from…

Chile's BBVA Banco Bhif has ATM expansion plans for '03

February 23, 2003

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean bank BBVA Banco Bhif (NYSE:BB) plans to increase its ATM fleet 40 percent to 50 percent in 2003, to between 145 and 155 units…

Carreker Corporation to remain on Nasdaq

February 23, 2003

DALLAS -- Carreker Corporation (Nasdaq: CANIE) says that the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has granted an exception for Carreker's securities to continue…

Tidel is in danger of delisting

February 23, 2003

HOUSTON -- Tidel Technologies Inc. says it has received an additional delisting notice for failing to meet Nasdaq's minimum stockholders' equity requirement.

Nyberg out, Hurd in, as NCR's CEO

February 19, 2003

DAYTON, Ohio -- NCR Corporation says that its Board of Directors, at a special meeting on Feb. 19, accepted the resignation of Lars Nyberg as chief executive…

Washington legislators intro bills they hope will cut financial fraud

February 19, 2003

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Prompted by a boom in financial fraud and identity theft, state legislators have drafted a package of House and Senate bills that would…

Florida company sues big retailers over prepaid card sales

February 19, 2003

MIAMI -- A tiny company run out of the 74-year-old chief executive's home in Coral Gables, Fla., has filed a lawsuit filed in federal court alleging that Home…

PNC is 2nd bank to cancel ATM cards after hacker attack

February 19, 2003

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- PNC Bank said  it was forced to deactivate some 16,000 of its ATM/debit bearing the Visa logo after being notified by Visa that the cards…

eFunds earnings down in 2002

February 19, 2003

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- eFunds Corporation (Nasdaq: EFDS) reported net income of $900,000 or diluted earnings per share of 2 cents in 2002's fourth quarter…

UK's ATM Security Working Group could serve as model for U.S.

Alan Townsend, the London police detective who helped create an ATM Security Working Group with a number of the UK's top independent ATM deployers, says a…

Citizens Bank reissues ATM cards in wake of hacker attack

February 18, 2003

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Hundreds of bank customers in Pittsburgh and across the state had their ATM/debit cards canceled after a computer hacker stole some …

Spanish bank orders 140 BANQIT ATMs

February 18, 2003

STOCKHOLM -- Spanish bank BBVA has ordered 140 of BANQIT's new Q-Cash 35 multi-function ATMs.