Study: RBR forecasts accelerating growth in ATM market through 2018

January 16, 2014

The number of ATMs installed worldwide increased by more than 180,000 during 2012 to reach 2.6 million at the end of the year. At 8 percent, the global market…

EMVCo to develop tokenization spec

January 16, 2014

EMVCo has announced that it will expand its scope of work from chip-based payments to include tokenization. This will allow the global technical body to…

US IAD survey closing on Friday, Jan. 17

January 16, 2014

The fourth annual U.S. independent ATM deployers survey will close at end-of-day Friday, Jan. 17. Co-sponsors Kahuna ATM Solutions and the ATM Industry…

Where's the beef?

by Terrina Rishel — CEO, ATM Authority, LLC

Remember the Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers slogan, "Where's the beef?" I've always thought it was one of the cleverest marketing campaigns because it cut to…

SCIL-EMV Academy posts class schedule for first half of 2014

January 16, 2014

SCIL-EMV Academy, a U.S.-based EMV training, consultancy and software solutions provider, has released its EMV public workshop schedule for the first half of…

ATMIA members meet with Fed bankers, X9 committee

January 16, 2014

Twelve ATM Industry Association members were among more than 50 guests at an invitation-only December meeting hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of…

US government sends warning letter to retailers about ongoing breach investigation

January 16, 2014

Reuters reports that the U.S. government today sent a confidential 16-page letter to retailers, which it says "describes the malicious software and techniques…

Dynamic authentication: A new answer to card skimming

Mimi Hart, CEO of MagTek, explains a new angle on stopping skimmers from using a compromised card. (From the ATM & Mobile Executive Summit in Washington, D.C.)

Why consumers won't adopt EMV

Mimi Hart of MagTek doesn't believe consumer behavior will give EMV a smooth road to adoption. "Mobile has a lot more promise." (From the ATM & Mobile…

On-board biometrics: The next-gen ID card?

January 16, 2014

Oslo, Norway-based Zwipe has developed a biometric card that reads the user's fingerprint, activating in less than a second, a company news release said. Users…

BBVA goes multifunction with new ATMs

January 16, 2014

Spanish FI Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria is working on two continents to renew its self-service channel. In the U.S., BBVA Compass Bancshares Inc., is…

You can't get rid of the fraud risk until you get rid of the card

With a safer, less expensive alternative available, is it security driving the move to EMV - or stakeholder interests?

Better ATM expands reseller network to include Advanced Network Inc.

January 16, 2014

Better ATM Services, a solutions provider to the ATM and prepaid industries, has finalized a reseller agreement with Advanced Network Inc. As a member of the…

Assume all handsets are compromised

Jim Pitts, project manager of the BITS Financial Services Roundtable, explains why he tells his FI members to expect the worst when it comes to customers…

Can a fraudster add malware to an app that's already in the app store?

CrowdStrike broke into the App Store and bypassed the security validation mechanism. Their CTO describes the demo conducted at a conference a few years ago.

Will uncertainty about debit routing delay MasterCard EMV dates?

January 14, 2014

Ever since the July 31, 2013, ruling by Judge Richard Leon that struck down not only the Fed's fee cap rules but also its debit routing scheme, the payments…

DI buy yields rapid results for NCR

January 14, 2014

In December, when NCR Corp. announced its intention to buy digital banking services provider Digital Insight, the company said it saw an opportunity to serve a…

4 examples of ATM branding to jumpstart a creative brainstorm

by Rebecca Hellmann — Marketing and Sales Coordinator, Welch ATM

Many financial institutions and retailers still see ATMs merely as cash or transaction machines. In reality, creative thinking can transform a standard…

Nedbank manages rapid growth with transaction performance monitoring

January 14, 2014

Having grown by more than two million individual and small business clients over the last two years, South Africa's Nedbank recognized that, in the face of…

Puerto Rican CU cooperative moves to modernize

January 14, 2014

Credicentro Coop, MaunaCoop, CamuyCoop and CoopRincón created USIcoop in 2013 as a means to cost-effectively transform their enterprise technology. Their…