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In a novel bid to combat snatch thieves and shoulder surfers, pictures have been painted onto the floors leading up to cash machines in West London, creating 'safe zones'.
27 September 2010
One of the ringleaders of the 2008 cyber-attack on RBS WorldPay's computer network, which led to the theft of over $9.4 million, has escaped with a six year suspended sentence, according to press reports.
09 September 2010
Ireland cold save EUR1 billion a year by ditching cash and cheques in favour of electronic payments, according to research from National Irish Bank (NIB).
The decline of paper money in the UK continued in the second quarter, with cash and cheques both seeing dwindling usage as take-up of electronic alternatives such as debit cards and the Faster Payments service grew.
An Irish government minister has been forced to backtrack on proposals to charge customers for using ATMs as a way of encouraging a move away from cash to electronic money.
06 September 2010
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has apologised to customers after scheduled system and security upgrades to its NetBank online service disrupted its nationwide payment network.
31 August 2010
A systems glitch left Barclays customers unable to access their accounts online or use cash machines on Saturday.
23 August 2010
A Frenchman has fallen victim to a pair of female thieves who distracted him at a cash machine by flashing their breasts before making off with EUR300.
13 August 2010
Brazil's Caixa Economica Federal has inked a deal to merge its credit and debit card business with Banco do Brasil and Banco Bradesco under the new Elo brand.
09 August 2010
An alleged mastermind behind the 2008 cyber-attack on RBS WorldPay's computer network, which led to the theft of over $9.4 million, has been extradited from Estonia to the US.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has strongly criticised DBS and IBM over last month's seven-hour system-wide outage, ordering the bank to redesign its online and branch technology and reduce its reliance on Big Blue.
05 August 2010
Metro Bank, the first new high street player to enter the UK market for over 100 years, has opened its doors to the public, running on a technology platform from Swiss vendor Temenos.
29 July 2010
A security researcher has demonstrated two hacks on ATMs, forcing the machines to spew out cash, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Bank of Ireland is refunding around 43,000 ATM users a total of EUR3 million after a problem with anti-fraud systems saw money incorrectly debited from their accounts.
22 July 2010
The long trumpeted vision of a cashless society is not set to become reality in the foreseeable future, with notes and coins remaining the primary method of retail payment, by volume, for many years to come, claims tech analyst Ovum.
20 July 2010
Bank of America is to debut a new online-only account that offers free banking to customers who dispense with paper statements and branch-based transactions.
16 July 2010
The Irish government has agreed to the creation of a high level group that will establish a National Payments Implementation Plan (NPIP) designed to wean the country off its dependence on paper-based cash and cheques.
Spanish bank BBVA has begun piloting state-of-the-art, touch screen ATMs developed in conjunction with design consultancy Ideo.
13 July 2010
German girocard debit card holders can now withdraw cash from 63,000 Link network cash machines in the UK.
12 July 2010
Spanish card payments network processing operators Sermepa and Redes y Procesos have agreed a merger deal designed to pool resources and compete in a Sepa-based European market.
30 June 2010
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