Home Office launches anti-ATM crime ad campaign

April 12, 2006

NEWPORT-ON-TAY, Scotland - The Home Office is unveiling a two-week advertising campaign with ATM:ad on ATMs across Greater London. According to a news release…

PIN debit has advantages over signature

April 12, 2006

ePaynews: Debit-card use continues to grow in the United States, with the Star network reporting that 2005 debit purchases were 32 percent higher than cash and…

Discover expands ATM card acceptance through Pulse

April 11, 2006

RIVERWOODS, Ill. - Discover Financial Services LLC's cards are now accepted at ATMs on the Pulse network.

Info Touch changes name to Tio Networks

April 11, 2006

BURNABY, British Columbia - Info Touch Technologies Corp., which owns the Tio financial services network, has changed its name to Tio Networks Corp., according…

SEPA impacts card markets in France, Spain

April 11, 2006

ePaynews: France is one of Europe's most mature card markets, and was the first to deploy chip cards on a wide scale. But as the single euro payments area…

Tio Networks, Tranax launch hybrid-ATM strategy

April 11, 2006

BURNABY, British Columbia - Tio Networks Corp., formerly Info Touch Technologies Corp., and Tranax Technologies Inc. have entered a strategic partnership to…

New merchants to fuel contactless growth in North America

April 11, 2006

Digital Transactions: Shipments of contactless-payment transponders - the cards, keyfobs and other devices consumers use to make radio-wave payments at the…

Bain Capital, Advantage Partners to buy MEI Conlux from Mars

April 11, 2006

TOKYO - Bain Capital, a global private investment firm, and Advantage Partners, a private equity firm in Japan, are expected to acquire unattended payment…

Three arrested in robbery that included trapping employee in ATM

April 11, 2006

WDIV-TV (Detroit): Three men have been in arrested in connection with the robbery that left an employee trapped inside an ATM machine in Detroit's Canton…

Who's who: Safwan Shah, the man behind the software

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

April 10, 2006

Don't let his humble demeanor fool you. Infonox' Safwan Shah is a catalyst, an innovator and a visionary whose work has touched the far corners of self-service…

Adoption of open standards helps our industry

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

April 10, 2006

Level Four's Jorge Fernandez argues that ISOs need to jump on the Windows ATM bandwagon.

NCR buys RFID firm

April 10, 2006

Dayton Business Journal: NCR Corp. has acquired RFID provider IDVelocity LLC. The privately held Greensboro, N.C.-based provider of radio frequency…

Judge sends NCR, KAL to arbitrator

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

April 10, 2006

Nearly a year and a half after Dayton, Ohio's NCR Corp. sued multivendor software provider Korala Associates Ltd. (KAL) for copyright infringement, a federal…

Auditors question TRM's viability

April 10, 2006

Associated Press: TRM Corp. said April 7 that its auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, has raised questions about the company's ability to continue.

Latin America's card markets nearing maturity

April 10, 2006

ePaynews: Latin America's card-payment systems are nearing maturity, as are the economies of scale necessary for sustained growth, as POS terminal penetration…

Visa Europe expected to pilot contactless payments

April 10, 2006

ePaynews: During 2006, Visa Europe expects to pilot contactless payments in several EMV card-using countries, including the United Kingdom, to leverage EMV…

HSBC joins mobile ATM network

April 10, 2006

Channel Register: Consulting, technology and support company Morse announced that HSBC and First Direct are the first banks to join its mobile ATM network…

NCR, techs reach agreement

April 10, 2006

Australian IT: An industrial relations skirmish in the technology sector appears to be over, with technicians at NCR Corp. voting to accept an enterprise…

Bank of New Zealand caught in cross-border ATM fraud

April 10, 2006

Finextra: Cards skimmed from Bank of New Zealand ATMs have been used by criminals in Toronto to steal N.Z. $49,000 (U.S. $29,890) from customer accounts in an…

Fiserv adds PassMark Security's authentication tech

April 10, 2006

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv Inc. named PassMark Security a partner in providing multifactor authentication technology to its banking and credit union clients.