NCR aims to downsize US pension plan via lump sum payments

August 25, 2017

NCR Corp. will offer a voluntary lump sum payment option to approximately 7,000 former employees or their beneficiaries who are deferred vested participants in…

Panini, BLM sign distribution deal for EMV card instant issuance solution

August 25, 2017

Minneapolis-based BLM Technologies, a provider of payment, transaction and other financial institution hardware and IT services, has expanded its EMV card…

BDO Unibank, Azimo Philippines partnership enables remittance cash pickup in minutes

August 25, 2017

Azimo, a provider of money transfer services, has extended its cash pickup service to enable customers in the Philippines to collect money minutes after a…

Half a million strong: A salute to the much-maligned ATM

by atm Atom — blogger, atmatom

The United States can now boast of having half a million ATMs (three-quarters of them independently operated) reliably serving citizens all over the nation …

EAST releases 2017 fraud alert stats to date

August 24, 2017

Through Aug. 21, the European Association for Secure Transactions (previously the European ATM Security Team) issued a total of 155 fraud alerts involving 2…

An ATM rock star

by ATMIA,

In the ATM business, as in the music business, success is about finding the right group of people to work with and thinking creatively with them in order to…

BMO extends cross-border Allpoint access to private banking clients

August 24, 2017

BMO Private Banking is offering its Canadian clients — that is, high net-worth individuals and families — free access to more than 40,000 ATMs in the United…

Diebold Nixdorf appoints leader of UK, Ireland business

August 24, 2017

Diebold Nixdorf has appointed Ben Gale vice president of its U.K. and Ireland business. Gale has acquired more than 20 years' experience in the IT sector, and…

City Union Bank's Lakshmi robot promoted from greeter to customer cash custodian

August 24, 2017

Last November, City Union Bank introduced India's first banking robot, Lakshmi, who greets customers entering the branch and answered their questions.

State Bank of India permanently blocks non-EMV cards

August 24, 2017

State Bank of India issued a statement on Monday urging customers to apply to receive an EMV bankcard to replace their existing magnetic stripe card. SBI asked…

Barclaycard puts modern twist on classic treat with 'contactless' ice cream cones

August 24, 2017

Barclaycard has put a unique, modern twist on a classic summertime treat in the U.K. with the introduction of a self-service ice cream van that will enable…

Hand-in-hand: How to bring security and simplicity together in mobile banking

Unfortunately, the mobile banking channel comes with increased vulnerability. Also unfortunately, many financial institutions make the mistake of separating…

Fiserv acquires real-time payments platform with Dovetail purchase

August 22, 2017

Fiserv Inc., a provider of financial services technology solutions, has acquired Dovetail Group Ltd., a provider of bank payments and liquidity management…

Juniper forecasts rapid rise in uptake of contactless payments

August 22, 2017

A new study from Juniper Research has found more than half (53 percent) of global transactions at the point of sale will be contactless within five years…

Japanese FI to roll out mobile ATM to serve rural, elderly customers

August 22, 2017

Japan's Shimane Shinkin Bank has announced plans to introduce its first mobile ATM in November to serve elderly Japanese in rural areas without access to bank…

Europe's SIX Payment Service touts trend toward cashless events

August 22, 2017

SIX Payment Services, one of Europe's largest card transaction processors, is assisting events organizers across Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands to go…

Rathgaber to retire, Cardtronics to ring in 2018 with West at helm

August 22, 2017

Cardtronics PLC announced today that CEO Steven A. Rathgaber, 64, will retire from his roles as CEO and director, effective Dec. 31. Current CFO and COO Edward…

5 excellent reasons — and counting — to attend the upcoming Bank Customer Experience Summit

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

And the sixth reason: "Change takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought." It's happening…

CashDash, Cardtronics UK roll out cardless currency exchange at Cashzone ATMs

August 18, 2017

CashDash, a provider of multicurrency digital wallet technology, and independent ATM operator Cardtronics UK have announced their integration of Cash2Go…

Service Desk.iQ makes the grade with Ukrainian ATM service provider

August 18, 2017

Banking technology specialist BS/2 announced this week that its Service Desk.iQ solution for business process automation has been successfully implemented by a…