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News/security
OCBC Bank is rolling out facial verification technology to its network of ATMs, enabling users to check their balances and ultimately make cash withdrawals via a scan of their faces.
18 March 2021
News/retail
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the long-term decline in cash usage, banks are increasingly looking to pool or share their ATMs as a way to save money, according to RBR.
15 March 2021
News/payments
UK consumer group Which? is pushing for the government to take immediate action to protect the future of cash for those who need it, as its latest analysis shows a spike in the number of people forced to pay to withdraw their own money from cash machines.
02 March 2021
Covid-19 has accelerated the trend towards contactless cash withdrawals in Switzerland, according to SIX, which says that more than a third of machines in the country are now equipped with QR code readers while another 20% have NFC readers.
19 February 2021
Which? is urging the UK’s eight largest retail banks to publicly commit to maintaining cash access for the millions of people who still rely on it.
29 January 2021
Successive Coronavirus lockdowns led to a 37% drop in UK ATM withdrawals in 2020, according to figures published by cash machine network Link.
27 January 2021
News/inclusion
HSBC will close 82 branches in the UK this year as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates the trend away from in-person banking and towards digital channels.
19 January 2021
News/crypto
The Agricultural Bank of China has equipped a number of ATMs with the means for customers to deposit and withdraw the central bank's new digital currency.
13 January 2021
Dutch banks have shut down all sealbag machines - ATMs used for depositing cash by small businesses - after the discovery of an undetonated bomb in a machine located in the West-Frisian harbour town of Enkhuizen.
12 January 2021
NCR has made a cash offer worth more than $1.7 billion to buy Cardtronics, trumping a bid made late last year for the ATM operator by Apollo Global Management and Hudson Executive Capital.
11 January 2021
Cryptocurrency holders can now cash out their bitcoin at 16,000 ATMs across the UK thanks to a collaboration between East London-based Cryptocurrency company BitcoinPoint and independent cash machine operator Cashzone.
23 December 2020
OneBanks, a UK startup that is working to put fully-staffed banking kiosks in places that high street lenders have left, is gearing up to open its first location in the Scottish town of Denny.
09 December 2020
Belgium's big four banks have called in vendor Auriga to manage their new network of bank-neutral ATMs.
04 December 2020
The rush to abandon cash during the pandemic may be unnecessary, according to a scientific study from the Bank of England, which finds that the risk of Covid-19 transmission by banknotes is low.
24 November 2020
News/startups
Californian bank Green Dot is investing in and partnering with startup Gig Wage to bring banking and financial tools to gig workers.
28 October 2020
The UK's Post Office is set to shut 600 of its 2000 ATMs over the next 18 months as it takes ownership of a network of machines currently operated by Bank of Ireland.
27 October 2020
The European Association for Secure Transactions (East) is reporting a sharp rise in 'jackpotting' Black Box attacks on European ATMs in the first six months of 20202.
13 October 2020
Pop-up post offices, purchase-free in-store cash back and a financial hub inside a church are among the ideas being tested to help communities across the UK retain free access to cash.
23 September 2020
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has warned banks that every time they plan to close a branch or ATM they will need to provide an analysis of the impact on customers' access to cash.
14 September 2020
Chilean bank BancoEstado closed all of its branches on Monday in response to a ransomware attack over the weekend.
08 September 2020
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