With ATM e-receipts, it's easy being green

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

Wells Fargo program makes it simple for customers to choose email over paper for their ATM receipts. 

Commentary: Banking and social media: Where is it going?

New developments raise the question of whether social media will complement the ATM or compete with it.

Brazil's Banco Bradesco demos what's 'Next' in banking

August 30, 2012

Brazil's Banco Bradesco has introduced Bradesco Next, a new branch model and showcase for high-tech banking innovations.

Study: credit card use by Chinese growing rapidly

August 28, 2012

Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that about 30 percent of Chinese urban households now own at least one credit card. Additionally, credit…

College students, Diebold engineers team up to explore cloud computing

August 27, 2012

Students from the University of Akron and software engineers from Diebold Inc. will participate in a series of three courses in cloud computing at UA to…

ATM use rises in Pakistan

August 27, 2012

The ATM channel is experiencing notable growth in Pakistan. The country's central bank today said that in the last quarter of the 2011 fiscal year, the value…

Study: FICO data shows spike in US credit, debit fraud

August 24, 2012

FICO, a provider of predictive analytics and decision management technology, today released data from the FICO Falcon Fraud Manager Consortium. The analysis…

ATM attacks, bank robberies take a 50% bump in Brazil

August 23, 2012

In the first half of this year, bank robberies and ATM attacks soared 50 percent, according to a recent study by Brazil's National Confederation of Security…

Study: Brits favor cash, aren't keen on contactless

August 20, 2012

The U.K. continues to demonstrate a lack of appetite for contactless technology; only 17 percent of citizens there think a "cashless future" would make their…

Study: Debit is growing despite new regs

FIs focus on "cash displacement" transactions to make up fee losses.

Transition to 'cashless' slow going in Nigeria

August 17, 2012

The effort of Nigeria to reduce cash in circulation, provide services to the unbanked, and transition its economy to electronic and mobile transactions, is…

Location, location, location.

Does Cardtronics know something about ATM siting that Bank of America doesn’t?

British ATMs 'go big' during Olympics

August 16, 2012

Perhaps the time has come to toss the Cashless Olympics into the dustbin of Things That Weren't, there to join the Paperless Office and the Y2K Bug.

Report: half of US bank account holders to go mobile by 2017

August 16, 2012

Forrester Research has released a new report on mobile banking, and it's evident the technology has gone from novelty to necessity.

Study: On average, CUs charge 13% less in foreign-card ATM fees than banks do

August 14, 2012

Thirty percent of America's 50 largest credit unions charge members no ATM fees outside the network or provide at least one free withdrawal per week before a…

Study: Prepaid cards mostly used short-term

August 13, 2012

A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has found that consumers generally use a prepaid card for no more than six months, indicating that such…

Vietnam's small banks not paying their share for ATMs, major banks say

August 13, 2012

Last week, Vietnam's central bank announced that it would allow banks to begin charging fees on internal ATM transactions starting in 2013. But the country's…

China's UnionPay issues more than half of all new payment cards

August 9, 2012

In 2011, the number of payment cards worldwide rose 12 percent to 8.9 billion. More than half of this increase was attributable to growth in China, where card…

July ATM withdrawals hint at stronger S African economy

August 7, 2012

Spark ATM Systems has released its Spark Cash Index for July, measuring the average value of cash withdrawals across more than 1,700 ATMs across South Africa.

Forrester: NFC adoption still a few years off

August 6, 2012

Two new Forrester Research reports on the future of NFC may dampen enthusiasm for the technology somewhat. Forrester isn't exactly bearish on NFC, but does…