Interbank ATM switch catching on in Ghana

December 17, 2012

Since the introduction of Ghana's national switch activation last month, Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems said customer use of the ATMs of other…

CO-OP intros ATM with shared branching functionality

December 14, 2012

CO-OP Financial Services is urging credit unions to share and offering them the means to do it. The credit union service organization has announced its…

German Bank NORD/LB outsources IT infrastructure ops to Wincor Nixdorf

December 14, 2012

Wincor Nixdorf has won a seven-year contract to provide central operations management of IT infrastructure for Norddeutsche Landesbank. The agreement, which…

European ATM co-op joins Pulse network

December 13, 2012

EUFiserv Payments, a Brussels-based ATM cooperative owned by 10 European banks, and PULSE, the debit and ATM network subsidiary of Discover Financial Services…

2012 GRG Global Customer Exchange

Kashif Naeem, vice president and head of product management at Sudan's largest FI, Bank of Khartoum, talks about the opportunity GCE provides to learn about…

Wright-Patt CU to add Interactive Teller to ATM fleet

December 11, 2012

Wright-Patt Credit Union, an Ohio-based FI serving more than 230,000 members, has announced that it will begin introducing NCR APTRA Interactive Teller…

NASA FCU ATMs now dispensing Visa gift cards

December 11, 2012

NASA Federal Credit Union has announced the introduction of ATM-dispensed Visa gift cards at select branches in Maryland, Virginia and the District of…

CBN announces Dec. 17 end to all ATM fees

December 10, 2012

After several weeks of confusion, complaining and finger-pointing, it seems as though the CBN finally has an agreed date for the universal implementation of…

CUSO claims a half-million mobile RDC users

December 10, 2012

In a further sign that mobile remote deposit is gaining ground with consumers, credit union service organization EasCorp of Burlington, Mass., has reported…

PULSE, Busey Bank enter long-term agreement

December 7, 2012

Pulse, a provider of ATM and debit network services, and Champaign, Ill.-based Busey Bank have reaffirmed their 7-year association with a long-term extension…

CUs not subject to ATM fee placard suits, CUNA legal brief argues

December 7, 2012

In a "friend of the court" brief, CUNA petitioned a West Coast federal appeals court this week to uphold a lower court decision that set out conditions of…

The ATM is the bank!

by Richard Buckle — Founder and CEO, Pyalla Technologies, LLC

A couple of stories posted to this site of late have caught my attention. And after a fashion, they surprised me. Not because of the technology they describe…

Prolific Pittsburgh attorney files new ATM fee notice suits

December 5, 2012

Bruce Carlson is busy — very busy. Since March 15, the Pittsburgh lawyer has filed 19 class action suits against ATM operators on behalf of a Texas woman…

CaixaBank rolls out contactless EMV at ATM, POS terminals

December 4, 2012

Spanish CaixaBank SA is launching its TAP Visa contactless payment system in Barcelona for use at La Caixa ATMs and POS terminals. The system is enabled by…

BBVA Compass, Cardtronics launch Colorado ATM-branding program

December 4, 2012

Customers of BBVA Compass now have fee-free access to 178 Cardtronics-owned and -operated retail ATMs in Colorado as the result of a branding agreement between…

Russia's Leto-bank to deploy ATMs with biometric ID

November 29, 2012

Leto-bank is joining the ranks of biometric believers with the planned deployment of new fingerprint-reading ATMs. The FI, which belongs to Russia’s VTB Group…

Of ban on Nigerian ATM fees, CBN says, 'It wasn't our doing'

November 28, 2012

In response to banks' complaints about a directive banning them from charging foreign ATM fees, the Central Bank of Nigeria spoke up this week to set the…

Webster Bank completes upgrade of 291 ATMs

November 27, 2012

Webster Bank, a regional FI ($20 billion in assets) that serves customers from Boston to Westchester County, N.Y, has put the finishing touches on an ATM…

Philippine partnership enables cardless ATM withdrawals

November 26, 2012

The Security Bank Corp. of the Philippines and IAD Electronic Network Cash Tellers Inc. have teamed to launch the first cardless ATM withdrawals in the…

Self-service banking continues to expand at Chase

November 26, 2012

A Chase Bank branch in Chicago recently installed self-service banking kiosks, joining the 99 other locations nationwide that have machines. Chase has more…