Brand expansion through branchless banking

by Rebecca Hellmann — Marketing and Sales Coordinator, Welch ATM

While transactions at financial institution branches across the U.S. are dropping by approximately 5 percent per year, PC and Internet use are on the rise. The…

FIS to provide full IT outsourcing for FirstBank Puerto Rico

March 21, 2013

Banking and payments technology firm FIS has signed a 7-year agreement with FirstBank Puerto Rico to assume full on-site responsibility for IT operations and…

Crikey, that's a lot of foreign ATM fees!

March 21, 2013

Australians pay out-of-network fees on 40 percent of their ATM transactions, research has revealed. The total for all this "off us" action: $670 million…

NY considers abandoning ATM fee sticker law

March 21, 2013

Now that Congress has passed EFTA Reg E reform, New York is deciding whether to "be a part of it," you might say. State Assemblywoman Annette Robinson…

Is the ATM industry finally getting traction on an EMV spec?

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

As 10 networks agree to adopt a common AID, ATM implementation suddenly looks more doable.

Disappearing ink dooms polymer naira

March 21, 2013

It's like a kiddie magic trick gone desperately wrong: Five years after the Central Bank of Nigeria introduced the country's first polymer notes, citizens are…

Study: access to ATMs not so easy for some Brits

March 21, 2013

A report by the U.K. Payments Council has found that some Britons in low income and rural areas do not have adequate access to ATMs. The council has vowed to…

Ukraine bank launches payWave using SmartVista platform

March 21, 2013

BPC Banking Technologies, a provider of open system e-payment solutions, has announced the launch of Visa payWave products at Credit Dnepr Bank in Ukraine. The…

ATMIA publishes mobile banking best practices

March 21, 2013

The ATM Industry Association has released a new best practice manual for preventing mobile banking fraud. The manual places particular focus on applications…

Are you getting what you are paying for?

It can be well worth the effort to step outside the black-and-white boundaries of a contract when you assess performance.

To EMV, or not to EMV ...

by Mark Smith — VP of Financial Solutions, Kahuna ATM Solutions

I've had the pleasure of attending several conferences recently and have listened to many points of view about EMV and the VISA/MasterCard timelines for the…

Visa may have to pay billions for European network

March 20, 2013

The European banks that currently own Visa Europe are thinking of setting up their own competing payments network in Europe. Not only would this mean new…

Virtual currency exchanges get real rules

March 20, 2013

The playing field for U.S. legal tender and virtual currencies has just been levelled a bit.

Cyber attack takes down Korean ATMs, banks

March 20, 2013

In what many are calling an act of cyber-revenge, computer screens at ATMs, banks and broadcast station offices in South Korea simultaneously went black on…

EAST releases new stats on European ATM fraud

March 19, 2013

The European ATM Security Team has published its first European Fraud Update for 2013. The document includes ATM crime reports from representatives of 2…

Study: 'Global ATM Functionality Overview'

March 19, 2013

A new "research note" from Mercator Advisory Group reviews how ATMs are becoming banking hubs in many cash-centric markets throughout the world, and how the…

'Prominent Indian bank' opts for Datacard card issuance technology

March 19, 2013

Datacard Group, a provider of secure ID and card personalization solutions, has announced that the company's Datacard MX1100 card issuance system has been…

Ceridian Stored Value Solutions honored in Paybefore Awards

March 19, 2013

Ceridian Stored Value Solutions has been named the Breakout Company of the Year in the 2013 Paybefore Awards Europe competition. The annual contest was created…

Inventor of ATM PIN to be honored at Harvard

March 19, 2013

James Goodfellow, the Scot who invented the PIN number in 1965, will be honored this Thursday during an awards dinner and ceremony at Harvard University, where…

The (much) lighter side of ATMIA US 2013 (video)

Conference attendees exchanged good conversation -- and business cards -- during the welcome reception at ATMIA US 2013.