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Despite its burgeoning status, the ATM Industry Association's Government Relations Committee is already making significant strides in stopping knee-jerk ATM…

Poll: British ATM users still confused by ATM fees

September 1, 2004

Finextra: UK consumers are still confused about whether they will pay a fee for making cash withdrawals at ATMs despite the introduction of stickers and…

Class action suit charges FIs, ATM operators with collusion over fees

August 18, 2004

New York Post: A new federal class action suit charges ATM operators and banks with colluding to gouge customers every time they used ATMs. The suit, filed in…

Visa delays PED testing requirement

August 9, 2004

Less a week before a new ATM security requirement that called for PED testing at approved labs was to take effect, Visa decided to defer it. Visa wants time to…

Visa adds testing requirement for ATM PEDs

August 1, 2004

A year after it began requiring PEDs used on point-of-sale terminals to be tested at an independent Visa-approved laboratory, Visa is introducing a similar…

Access Board publishes new ADA guidelines, including requirement for audio ATMs

July 28, 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Access Board, as expected, last week released new design guidelines that cover access for people with disabilities under the…

Scrip under scrutiny

Interchange fees -- or more specifically, the way they flow -- are at the center of a growing debate over scrip transactions. One scrip deployer has issued a…

Australia's Cashcard recommends replacing ATM interchange with direct charging model

July 8, 2004

SYDNEY - Payment services provider and ATM operator Cashcard Australia Ltd has recommended the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) consider reducing ATM fees as…

Tidel proposes $3M settlement of class action suit

July 5, 2004

HOUSTON - Tidel Technologies, Inc. (Other OTC: ATMS) has reached an agreement inprinciple to settle securities class action lawsuits filed against it in the…

Calif. ISO, KeyBank in ATM marketing alliance

June 27, 2004

CALABASAS, Calif.-Coast ATM, LLC and Cleveland-based KeyBank (NYSE:KEY) have formed a marketing alliance to place ATMs and cash management solutions in…

Australia's central bank may take action on ATMs

June 10, 2004

SYDNEY - Australia's central bank is considering imposing reforms on ATM and debit transactions as well as on some American Express charge cards, according to…

ATM surcharge proposal suffers setback in Australia

June 7, 2004

SYDNEY - The lengthy and sometimes contentious process of reforming Australia's electronic payments system has suffered another blow after the country's…

Amended ATM bill passes Calif. Assembly

May 25, 2004

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly on May 25 voted 68-0 in favor or a bill that would require ATMs not owned by banks to be registered with an…

Sainsbury's grows UK ATM network, expresses concern over surcharges

May 17, 2004

LONDON - Sainsbury's Bank, the banking arm of UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's, plans to add another 235 ATMs to its national network this year, for a total of…

Miss. governor vetoes ATM fee regulation bill

May 5, 2004

JACKSON, Miss. - Gov. Haley Barbour has vetoed a bill that would have standardized user fees for ATMs.

Ill. companies establish Midwest ATM Association

April 11, 2004

CHICAGO - The Midwest ATM Association, a not-for-profit corporation, has been established by three industry executives in response to Illinois' recent…

S. Korean banks increasing ATM fees

March 7, 2004

SEOUL, South Korea - Because regulators are not empowered to limit the ceiling on ATM access charges, several large commercial banks have hiked the fees over…

Former Tri-State owner to fork over $3M

February 18, 2004

TRENTON, N.J. -- The former owner of an armored car service agreed to forfeit $3 million in assets after he was found guilty of wire and bank fraud, illegally…

BofA facing Calif. lawsuit over ATM fees disclosure

February 12, 2004

LOS ANGELES - California consumers have filed a lawsuit claiming that Bank of America failed to adequately disclose certain fees at ATMs.The suit, filed along…

Kansas considering ATM emergency notification measure

February 5, 2004

TOPEKA, Kan. - A system that summons police when ATM users enter their PIN backward would save lives, proponents of a bill mandating use of the technology say.