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EAST meets West

The US has joined Canada to become the Americas' second represented nation on the European ATM Security Team.

November 30, 2015

Citi Security & Investigative Services has joined the European ATM Security Team as the National Member for the U.S. EAST is focused on the Single Euro Payments Area, however Citi will participate as a non-SEPA member, a press release said.

Citi has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. The FI provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with consumer banking and credit products and services.

EAST representatives provide the organization with national incident and loss statistics for ATM-related fraud and physical attacks.

European (SEPA) countries represented in EAST include: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. EAST is still seeking national representative members from: Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia.

Non-SEPA members include: Canada, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine and, now, the U.S.