National City making $30M ATM investment

January 7, 2004

CLEVELAND, Ohio - National City Corporation will spend $30 million to replace or upgrade its network of 1,580 ATMs during the next 30 months, according to a…

3DES white paper details business opportunities

January 7, 2004

NORWOOD, Mass. - e-ClassicSystems, developer of the ATM Manager Pro ATM channel management system, is releasing a white paper entitled, "Managing the 3DES…

Wincor Nixdorf to host 7,000 at annual banking expo

January 7, 2004

PADERBORN, Germany -- Wincor Nixdorf will host 7,000 visitors from more than 40 countries for Wincor World 2004 here next month. The three-day symposium, Feb.

Diebold acquires Taiwan distributor

January 7, 2004

NORTH CANTON, Ohio - Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) has acquired Licent Information Technology (LIT), its sales and service distributor in Taiwan since 1999.

Concerns about payroll cards grow along with popularity

January 7, 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Introduced in the late 1990s, the popularity of payroll cards has grown in the past two years, especially as Visa and MasterCard started…

Jamaican police investigating unauthorized ATM withdrawals

January 7, 2004

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Police in Jamaica were questioning 10 people on Jan. 7 in connection with the disappearance of nearly $400,000 from ATMs.

Who's who: Kent Phillips

January 6, 2004

As the vice president of business and product development for Transaction Network Services' (TNS) POS division, Kent Phillips is helping chart the evolution of…

Washington Bankers endorses Concord, Star

January 6, 2004

SEATTLE, Wash. - WBA Professional Services, Inc. (PROS) has selected Concord EFS and its Star network, as its preferred provider for EFT processing, ATM…

Bank of Ireland's retail ATMs a hit with users

January 5, 2004

DUBLIN, Ireland - €400m (U.S. $496 million) has been dispensed through Bank of Ireland's (BoI) retail ATM network since its launch in February 2003.According…

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.

PaySpot buys top-up provider

January 5, 2004

LEAWOOD, Kan. - PaySpot, Inc., a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: EEFT) that provides prepaid services in the United States, has acquired 10…

UAE's central switch adding POS services

January 5, 2004

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The UAE Interbank switch is being upgraded with point-of-sale services, according to a report in the Gulf News.S2 Systems will upgrade…

eFunds' ATM branding program continues to grow

January 5, 2004

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - eFunds Corporation (NYSE: EFD), says that the recent addition of California's North Valley Bank Corporation to its ATM branding program…

Bail denied for 3 men involved in Irish ATM scam

January 4, 2004

DUBLIN - Three illegal Romanian immigrants who have been in custody for the past five weeks in connection with an ATM fraud case again failed in their efforts…

Service tech ambushed at Miss. ATM

January 4, 2004

JACKSON, Miss. - A Diebold service technician became one of the city's first homicides of 2004 on Jan. 1.

RBR report: Non-bank ATMs fuel European growth in '02

December 30, 2003

LONDON - The UK's installed ATM base grew by 4,202 machines, or 11 percent, to 40,795 in 2002, making it Europe's third-largest ATM market and the…

China changes interchange rules

December 30, 2003

SHANGHAI - China's central bank has passed a new rule on bank card commission fees, and will cut the total charges on each cross-bank withdrawal via ATMs from…

Weirdest ATM news of 2003

December 29, 2003

Editor Ann All presents her annual wrap-up of the weirdest ATM stories of the year. In most of them, crime doesn't pay.

State Bank of India floats idea of ATM on a boat

December 29, 2003

KERALA, India -  The State Bank of India is set to launch a floating ATM on a boat in Kerala. SBI officials say the floating machine will take banking to the…

NexTran affiliate to distribute biometric ID systems

December 29, 2003

SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J - ATM provider NexTran Industries, Inc., says that its affiliated company, Bio Technology Solutions, LLC, has secured exclusive North…