Stories we tell ourselves: ATM myths and narratives

by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo — Professor of Business History, Bangor University

A narrative, as Nobel laureate Robert Shiller defines it, is a story with a moral that can rise to the level of an economic narrative. In the ATM world, we…

Taiwan's financial regulator: ATMs won't disappear, they'll just become smarter

by Amy Castor — Editor, Networld Media Group

November 20, 2019

Taiwan has been pushing toward cashless payments. However, its financial regulator reassured citizens on Tuesday, that despite those efforts, ATMs will not…

Google to launch checking accounts with Citi, local credit union

November 13, 2019

Google, in another move by Silicon Valley to enter the financial services space, is teaming with Citigroup and Stanford Federal Credit Union to offer checking…

Apple Bank switches to core platform from FIS to upgrade digital, branches and ATMs

November 8, 2019

Fidelity National Information Services, which operates as FIS, said that Apple Bank has moved to the IBS hosted modern core banking platform which will allow…

ATMIA's Ron Delnevo discusses importance of payment choice, independent ATMs

by Amy Castor — Editor, Networld Media Group

Ron Delnevo, executive director of Europe at the ATMIA, believes in payment choice. He also thinks independent ATM operators play an important role in keeping…

TNS launches secure internet gateway in India

November 5, 2019

Transaction delivery service provider Transaction Network Services has launched its Secure Internet Gateway to the Indian market and has secured its first…

ACI Worldwide extends partnership with Cardtronics

November 4, 2019

ACI Worldwide, a provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced it was extending its long-term relationship with ATM operator…

Kount launches service to catch criminal and 'friendly' cyber fraud

October 30, 2019

Kount, a Boise, Idaho-based cybersecurity firm, launched what it calls the industry's first comprehensive service that protects digital companies against both…

Discover Bank launches Zelle P2P service for checking, savings customers

October 29, 2019

Discover Bank said that its checking, savings or money market customers can now use Zelle P2P payments through its mobile app and online center. 

Link head of strategy: 'Contactless cards driving move away from cash in UK'

by Amy Castor — Editor, Networld Media Group

Graham Mott, head of strategy at Link, which oversees the U.K.'s network of ATMs, believes that contactless cards are behind the globe's shrinking reliance on…

Oxygen taps Allpoint ATM network to offer fee-free cash via its banking app

October 22, 2019

Oxygen, a new digital bank aimed at self-employed workers, will offer its customers access to more than 55,000 fee-free ATMs as it joins the Allpoint ATM…

Evolve to partner with i2c on suite of credit, debit, prepaid card products

October 21, 2019

Evolve Bank & Trust has entered a partnership with i2c Inc., a provider of digital banking and payments processing technology, in which the companies will…

Chime suffers new disruption to mobile app, debit card payments

October 17, 2019

(Update 10:56 a.m. EST Friday Oct. 18th to reflect certain services restored)

UK at tipping point, says Access to Cash Review chair

by Amy Castor — Editor, Networld Media Group

As digital payments grow in popularity in the U.K., the systems that support cash are starting to erode. Natalie Ceeney, chair of Access to Cash Review, warns…

JCB partners with Singapore's Socash on mobile app-based cash withdrawals

October 16, 2019

Socash, a Singapore-based fintech, is partnering with payment card issuer JCB to offer cardless cash withdrawals to Japanese tourists across Southeast Asia…

Mexico's new QR-based payments system — will it succeed?

by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo — Professor of Business History, Bangor University

Banxico recently rolled out CoDi, a smartphone and QR-based payments system. ATM historian Bernardo Batiz-Lazo steps us through how QR codes became so popular…

UK: half of all debit card payments now contactless

by Amy Castor — Editor, Networld Media Group

October 14, 2019

According to the latest figures from trade association U.K. Finance, now over half of the debit card payments in the U.K. are contactless. 

Facebook's Libra just lost its head of product

by Amy Castor — Editor, Networld Media Group

October 10, 2019

Simon Morris, who was the head of product for the Libra Association, the governing body that would oversee Facebook's proposed crypto, is gone.

How to go beyond the mobile app during the transition to digital banking

by David Jones — Editor, Networld Media Group

A successful transition to mobile banking requires a seamless, intuitive UX built into a mobile app. But the evolution from bricks-and-mortar to digital…

PayPal drops out of Facebook's Libra

October 4, 2019

PayPal Holdings Inc. has withdrawn its support for Facebook's future cryptocurrency Libra, according to a spokesperson for the payments provider.