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Fire and flooding at a BT building near Paddington station has blacked out Internet and telephone connections at over 400 exchanges around the UK and disrupted card transactions processed over the Sage Pay gateway for Lloyds Banking Group.
31 March 2010
Visa says all credit cards issued in New Zealand will be Chip and PIN from next month, with signature-based transactions at the point-of-sale phased out by 2012.
24 March 2010
Russian authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind the 2008 cyber-attack on RBS WorldPay's computer network, which lead to the theft of over $9 million, according to the Financial Times.
23 March 2010
China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second biggest market for ATMs, with over 200,000 machines scattered around the country, according to a report from Retail Banking Research (RBR).
A gang of three London men have been jailed for a total of 14 years following a foiled attempt to steal an ATM machine containing a substantial sum of cash.
19 March 2010
State Bank of India (SBI) is rolling out over 300 solar-powered ATMs from local vendor Vortex Engineering at rural and semi-urban sites across the country.
12 March 2010
A bank in Colorado has begun blocking point of sale purchases over concerns debit cards may have been compromised by the massive data breach that hit Heartland Payment Systems in 2008.
08 March 2010
Surgeons in New York had to be called in to remove a flash drive from the stomach of a man who swallowed it in an apparent bid to hide incriminating evidence following his arrest in connection with an ATM skimming scam.
03 March 2010
The debit cards of hundreds of people in the Canadian city of Windsor have been compromised after crooks tampered with payment terminals in fast food joints, installing Bluetooth technology into the PIN Pads and wirelessly downloading account information.
18 February 2010
The president of a US cash management company has been arrested on charges of defrauding a bank for which it replenishes ATMs of around $12 million.
17 February 2010
Norwegian women are catching their male compatriots up fast in the Internet banking stakes, according to figures from EDB Business Partners.
12 February 2010
Santander's UK customers were unable to use the bank's cash machines and online services for over six hours yesterday after a power cut.
08 February 2010
Banking automation vendor Diebold is to cut 350 jobs from its North American operations as it reports continuing weaknesses in the market for bank branch construction and a sharp dip in full-year revenues and income.
03 February 2010
Kenyan wireless operator Safaricom has struck a deal with Equity Bank that enables M-Pesa mobile money transfer customers to access their funds at ATMs around the country.
18 January 2010
Independent retailers in Northern Ireland have called for the creation of an ATM crime task force after a gang used a mechanical digger with a telescopic arm to rip out a cash machine from a petrol station in County Antrim - the 18th such incident of its kind in recent months.
11 December 2009
Around 30,000 financial services staff in Finland are set to go on a three day strike next week, leaving virtually all bank branches closed and online, ATM and in-store services subject to disruption.
10 December 2009
Debit card fraud in Australia has jumped over the last year according to the country's payments clearing association, driven by a spate of skimming attacks on ATMs and POS terminals.
09 December 2009
The Bank of England is urging financial institutions to stock up ATMs with £5 notes in a bid to increase their circulation. The call comes as evidence grows that Brits are hoarding cash because they do not have confidence in the banking system.
07 December 2009
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is beefing up its retail security safeguards with the introduction of anti-skimming devices at ATMs and real-time automated telephone alerts for suspicious transactions.
03 December 2009
A Romanian national has pleaded guilty to stealing $150,000 from Bank of America customer accounts in an ATM card-skimming scam.
18 November 2009
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