Barclaycard, Diners Club strike up partnership

June 6, 2013

Barclaycard Global Payment Acceptance and Diners Club Intl., a business unit of Discover Financial Services, have signed a joint agreement to allow the…

Euronet Pakistan sets up MCB Bank POS network for UnionPay acceptance

June 6, 2013

Euronet Pakistan, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide Inc., has enabled UnionPay bankcard acquiring on the nationwide point-of-sale network of a major Pakistani…

China to MasterCard: No renminbi transactions

June 5, 2013

The People's Bank of China has told MasterCard that it may not process cross-border transactions in renminbi, and has told online payment platform EPayLinks…

MasterCard picks up Myanmar's KZB Bank

May 30, 2013

ATMs of Kanbawza Bank Ltd., one of the largest FIs in Myanmar, will now be able to accept MasterCard payment cards, the company has announced. KZB's expanded…

JCB chooses Pulse for global ATM transactions

May 30, 2013

Starting in August, ATM acquirers in the United States will be able to route JCB transactions over the Pulse Network, following JCB's selection of Pulse as its…

For HSBC customers abroad, ATM access just got less convenient

May 20, 2013

A change to chip-embedded ATM cards is supposed to make ATM access easier in EMV markets. But for HSBC customers, this isn't quite the case.

FNB Namibia celebrates 97% ATM uptime

May 16, 2013

In many African countries, ATM uptime is a troublesome issue, fraught with power grid failures, network breakdowns, long trips for maintenance and challenging…

Philippines interbank network growing 15-20% per year

May 16, 2013

BancNet Inc., a Philippines-based interbank network, expects a 15–20 percent increase in transaction volume this year, in line with the electronic banking…

RBS to invest massively in IT infrastructure

May 16, 2013

RBS chair Philip Hampton has announced that the Royal Bank of Scotland Group will invest an additional £450 million ($688.55 million) in modernizing its…

What a common EMV solution means for the US

by Terry Dooley — SVP & CIO, ITS, Inc

There are three important factors to the common AID and application solution supported by the Secure Remote Payments Council and 10 of the largest debit…

Wincor rates as top middleware software provider in Europe, LA

May 13, 2013

British market research and consulting specialists RBR have identified Wincor Nixdorf as the market leader in Europe and Latin America for multi-vendor…

Indonesian ATM networks sign MoU for funds transfer

May 6, 2013

Three of Indonesia's domestic ATM/debit card providers have signed a memorandum of understanding setting out terms for an inter-principle fund transfer service…

Emirates NBD, Western Union deal enables ATM remittances

May 2, 2013

The Western Union Co., a global payment service provider, will offer its Account-Based Money Transfer service to Emirates NBD accountholders in the UAE. The…

Indian manufacturer rolls out energy-, security-managing ATM solutions

April 30, 2013

A pair of newly introduced power and security solutions will result in improved uptime and operational efficiency for India's banks and independent ATM…

Bank pact lets Burmese migrant workers send money home via ATM

April 30, 2013

An agreement between Siam Commercial Bank of Thailand and Kanbawza Bank of Myanmar will allow Burmese workers in Thailand to send funds back home by ATM…

2nd largest US CU chooses Wincor multi-vendor software solution

April 29, 2013

Wincor Nixdorf recently signed an agreement with Raleigh, N.C.-based State Employees' Credit Union to provide multi-vendor software solutions for the FI's…

Coastal Community Credit Union debuts video teller ATMs

April 23, 2013

Canada's Coastal Community Credit Union has installed its first NCR APTRA Interactive Teller ATM in a newly opened branch in Duncan, on Vancouver Island. The…

5 best practices for monitoring multi-channel banking environments

We've come a long way from the time when ATMs were simple, autonomous machines that were working — or not. That were serving customers efficiently — or not.

Fiserv ACCEL/Exchange now just Accel

April 16, 2013

The applications are broader, so the name needed to be shorter. The streamlining of Fiserv "ACCEL/Exchange" to simply "Accel" is the result of a repositioning…

Aligning payment processing services and customer experience

by Marc Borbas — VP, Marketing, INETCO

Last week, Retail Systems Research published the Fast Fact "Retail Payments and the Customer Experience: Waiting for Processors." It was taken from RSR's first…