Santa Monica, San Francisco lose appeal on surcharge bans

October 27, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court on Oct. 25 threw out two California municipal bans on ATM surcharges collected by banks, saying local law takes a back…

Euronet in ATM shared access deal with Polish bank

October 23, 2002

LEAWOOD, Kansas and WARSAW, Poland -- Borrowing an idea from American ISOs like Access Cash and Momentum Cash Systems which offer surcharge-free access to…

PNC deal with Penn State includes ATMs

October 22, 2002

PITTSBURGH, Penn. -- PNC Bank has struck a deal with Penn State University to offer students and faculty ID cards that also function as ATM/debit cards…

State Bank of India in midst of ATM upgrade; to add debit function to cards

October 20, 2002

CHENNAI, India -- State Bank of India will upgrade all of its ATM cards to include a debit function by the middle of December, according to a report in the…

Amicus seeks capital to stay afloat; 'clicks and mortar' approach sinks in U.S.

October 13, 2002

TORONTO -- It may be do-or-die time for the financially troubled Amicus Bank, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's plan to expand into the U.S. largely by…

Australian banks buy into Carreker cash handling concept

October 9, 2002

DALLAS -- Carreker Corporation (Nasdaq: CANI) says that the three large Australian-based banks using the services of Cash Services Australia (CSA), Westpac…

Key adds Indiana credit union to agent bank program

October 6, 2002

CLEVELAND and ELKHART, Ind. -- Elcose Federal Credit Union is the first financial institution in Indiana to sign an agent bank agreement with Cleveland-based…

Wells Fargo updates deposit processing with NCR's ImageMark Capture

October 3, 2002

DAYTON, Ohio -- Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) will use NCR Corporation's (NYSE:NCR) ImageMark Capture solution to transition its conventional proof-of-deposit (POD…

Malaysia's Maybank in prepaid phone top-up deal

October 1, 2002

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- TIMECel, the mobile communications unit of TIME dotcom Berhad (TIME), and Maybank have entered into a joint collaboration that will…

Diebold EMV forum takes stock of progress on conversion

September 24, 2002

Functionality, fear of fraud and a looming deadline are pushing European countries toward implementation of EMV specifications, according to this report from a…

Euronet gets ATM outsourcing deal with Slovakian bank

September 12, 2002

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia & LEAWOOD, Kan. -- Euronet Worldwide (Nasdaq:EEFT) will provide ATM outsourcing to Tatra Banka a.s., the third-largest bank in…

On target with ATM advertising

Your television doesn't know who you are. Neither does your radio, or the billboard you pass on the way to work each morning. Your ATM, however, knows your…

What's up doc? S. African bank debuts cartoon-branded ATM card

September 9, 2002

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In an attempt to gain a greater share of the youth market and to recruit clients from a younger age, Standard Bank has formed a…

China Construction Bank continues ATM buying spree with NCR

September 5, 2002

LONDON -- NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) says it has signed a new $14 million hardware and software deal with China Construction Bank (CCB), following an earlier…

Key's Agent Bank program continues to grow

September 5, 2002

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-based KeyCorp's (NYSE: KEY) Agent Bank program, in which Key provides surcharge-free access to its ATM network to other financial…

Diebold in 2nd big deal with China Construction Bank

September 3, 2002

BEIJING, China -- Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) says it has signed a contract with China Construction Bank (CCB), valued at more than $12 million, to…

ATM/debit card usage rises in Hungary

September 2, 2002

BUDAPEST -- In the first quarter of this year, 46 percent of Hungarians over age 15 had a bank card as compared to 40 percent a year ago, according to a…

Chile's Banco Ripley to choose network by year's end

September 2, 2002

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean bank Banco Ripley is expected to make a decision before year's end on which of Chile's two ATM networks the bank should join…

More Indian banks sharing ATM networks

September 2, 2002

While the concept of a shared ATM network is still in its infancy in India, an increasing number of Indian banks are said to be interested in linking their…

Washington Mutual adds Spanish to talking ATMs

August 25, 2002

For a special Spanish version of this news item, go to the Spanish version.