B of A completes Fleet acquisition

November 4, 2007

The (Nantucket, Mass.) Inquirer and Mirror: Pacific National Bank, which is getting ready to celebrate its 200th anniversary, has been acquired as part of…

TowerGroup report reviews evolution of mobile payments

November 4, 2007

NEEDHAM, Mass. - While online peer-to-peer payments and their mobile counterparts are not new to the payments arena, the use of mobile devices to exchange…

Metavante hits NYSE

November 4, 2007

Digital Transactions: Metavante Corp. hit the New York Stock Exchange last week, capping seven months of work since Marshall & Ilsley Corp., the…

Arvest Bank uses Paragon for software-upgrade testing

November 1, 2007

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. - Paragon Application Systems, provider of electronic-payment simulation, configuration and testing tools, has licensed its ATMulator Plus…

Visa's best practices tighten merchant security

November 1, 2007

Digital Transactions: With five new mandates for merchant acquirers and processors to meet by 2010, Visa Inc.'s Payment Application Best Practices are being…

RBS Lynk to offer online-banking solution at checkout

November 1, 2007

WILMINGTON, Del. - RBS Lynk, an electronic-payment processor, is offering its merchant clients a way to reach online banking users who want to pay cash at…

Fiserv leads with branch, merchant capture

November 1, 2007

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv Inc. says it has signed 872 clients for merchant capture and 972 for branch capture.   Bob Meara, a senior analyst for the…

EMV adoption in Europe knocks ATM fraud losses down 55%

October 31, 2007

EDINBURGH, Scotland - Figures for ATM crime across Europe for the first half of 2007 show that EMV-chip cards are driving down ATM fraud. Compared with the…

JBM releases dial-tone emulator for wireless

October 31, 2007

ST. LOUIS - JBM Electronics has announced the release of the Gateway C201 Router with dial-tone emulation.   According to a news release, the C201 integrates…

NCR's ATM sales jump 17% in 3Q

October 31, 2007

DAYTON, Ohio - NCR Corp. reported a 17 percent sales increase in its financial self-service unit, growth the comany attributes to greater demand in Europe…

ACG, Inc, announces the launch of its new website

October 31, 2007

Free ATMs to hit 500 by year-end in U.K.

October 30, 2007

Easier Media Ltd.: Following NatWest's and Royal Bank of Scotland's commitment to install 300 free-to-use ATMs in the United Kingdom, interest has surpassed…

TIO offers money-transfer services at Circle K, other retail outlets

October 30, 2007

BURNABY, British Columbia - TIO Networks Corp. and NEXXO Financial Corp. have formed an alliance to provide NEXXO's kiosk-based money-remittance services at…

Wincor opens subsidiary in Russia

October 29, 2007

PADERBORN, Germany - Wincor Nixdorf International has established its own subsidiary in the Russian market, the company announced this week.   "We want to…

Transoft highlights vault-cash management at BAI's RD

October 29, 2007

CARY, N.C. - Transoft International Inc., provider of currency supply-chain management solutions, will showcasE its OptiVault vault-cash management software…

Alaric signs debit switching, authorization deal with Caribbean FI

October 29, 2007

LONDON - Alaric International, supplier of solutions for the card-payments industry, has signed a contract with Barbados Public Workers' Co-operative Credit…

Turnkey solutions, mobility steal expo

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

First fall expo features digital signage and other tech.

Beyond the ATM: Mobile banking is here

October 28, 2007

The (India) Economic Times: Banking transactions in India are set to migrate to mobile phones. From providing balance information and account alerts, banks…

More than 94 million cards affected by TJX compromise

October 28, 2007

Digital Transactions: The number of credit and debit card accounts affected in the TJX Cos. breach has doubled, according to court filings. In March, TJX…

Cardtronics, NSA set up ATM training site in Tenn.

October 28, 2007

HOUSTON - Cardtronics LP and National Services Associates, which last year performed work at tens of thousands of U.S. ATM locations, have set up an ATM…