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EAST acquires Ukraine representative

March 15, 2012

The Ukrainian Interbank Payment Systems Member Association (known as "EMA") has just joined the European ATM Security Team as the national representative member for the Ukraine, EAST announced today. The Ukraine will participate as a non-Single Euro Payments Area member.

EAST is a nonprofit organization whose members are committed to gathering information from, and disseminating EAST reports to ATM deployers and networks within their countries/regions. The organization has created a framework to improve cooperation with industry, law enforcement and Europol in order to achieve awareness and better results in the fight against organized cross-border crime.

EAST has national representation from the following 26 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Canada, Russia and the Ukraine are represented at EAST as non-SEPA members.

EAST is seeking to establish links with parties in any country able to share national incident and loss statistics for ATM related fraud and physical attacks. In particular, the organization is seeking national representative members from Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovenia.

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