Firms cash in on selling personal information

August 21, 2005

Los Angeles Times: Records that ChoicePoint Inc. held for about 150,000 people were released to identity thieves who scammed their way into ChoicePoint's…

Cash Connect's parent named top bank by U.S. Banker

August 18, 2005

WILMINGTON, Del. – WSFS Financial Corp., the parent company of WSFS Bank and Cash Connect ATM Solutions, announced in a news release that for the third…

Miss. credit union region's first with 'no envelope' ATM

August 18, 2005

MOSS POINT, Miss. – Working with NCR Corp., Singing River Federal Credit Union is slated to be the first financial institution in Mississippi to offer ATMs…

U.S. Bank, Phoenix Interactive to expand Prodigy ATM rollout

August 18, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - U.S. Bank and Phoenix Interactive Design announced in an Aug. 18 news release that Prodigy ATM (powered by Phoenix's VISTAatm) has…

NCR receives EMV Level 2 authorization

August 17, 2005

AUGSBURG, Germany - NCR Corp. is the first company in Germany to receive EMV Level 2 authorization for a Windows-based ATM software program from Germany's…

ChoicePoint provides i.d. verification at AmStar ATMs

August 17, 2005

CARROLLTON, Texas - AmStar Systems Inc., a self-service financial kiosk manufacturer, has selected ChoicePoint as a service provider to help the company meet…

Wausau names new president of payment solutions

August 17, 2005

MOSINEE, Wis. - Wausau Financial Systems, a leading financial systems and services provider, named Nancy Langer president of payment solutions last month.

NCR, Diebold pursue other avenues in wake of dropping ATM profits

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

ATM manufacturing giants NCR and Diebold have towered above their competitors in the U.S. for decades. But as the ATM market becomes more competitive, the two…

'Fancy' ATMs may reduce fraud concerns

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

As consumers become more savvy and tech-hungry, retailers are turning to ATMs and transactional kiosks that don't look and act like traditional ATMs. But…

Stored-value ATM/debit card development deal signed

August 15, 2005

The Wisemarketer.com: Morgan Beaumont, a technology solution provider to the stored value and debit card market and owner of the SIRE Network, and Meta Payment…

ATM fraud in Africa highest in Eastern Cape

August 15, 2005

iafrica.com: ATM fraud is the most prevalent in the Eastern Cape of Africa, where the use of bank cards is very high, Johannesburg's First National Bank said.

New York bank uses S1 Postilion to drive ATMs in-house

August 15, 2005

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. - Mosaic Software, an S1 Corp. company and global transaction processing solutions provider, announced in an Aug. 16 news release that…

NetBank offers new service options

August 15, 2005

JACKSON, Miss. ¾ NetBank Payment Systems Inc., an end-to-end provider for payment processing solutions and a subsidiary of NetBank, announced in an Aug. 1…

ANALYSIS: A look at encryption, from then to now

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August 14, 2005

Steve Weingart, a cryptography expert, examines the future of Triple DES by recapping encryption's history.

Indian call centers sell off card details

August 14, 2005

ABC News Online: Personal information is being made available illegally by workers inside Indian call centers, which is placing tens of thousands of…

CR2 software used on first ATMs to launch in Sudan

August 14, 2005

DUBLIN - CR2, a provider of channel banking software solutions, announced in an Aug. 12 news release that Omdurman National Bank has successfully launched and…

Wincor signs ATM service contract with British bank

August 14, 2005

PADERBORN, Germany - Wincor Nixdorf announced in a news release that it has signed a contract with Britain's Co-operative Bank to provide end-to-end ATM…

WAUSAU originates one-third of ACH ARC tranasactions

August 14, 2005

MOSINEE, Wis. - Nearly one-third of the Automated Clearinghouse network's 383 million interbank accounts receivable conversion transactions originated from…

Fiserv acquires electronic bill-payment company

August 14, 2005

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv Inc. has completed its acquisition of BillMatrix Corp., an expedited electronic bill-payment services provider. According to a news…

Why EMV needs speed to drive market growth

August 11, 2005

The Wisemarketer: The varying pace of migration to the EMV chip-card specification around the world has had a significant impact on the sales of EFT/POS…