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HSBC has become the first bank in the UK to enable its customers to make donations to charity at its cash machines.
01 November 2005
Nick Tod, ousted chief executive of independent ATM operator Scott Tod, is calling on shareholders to reinstate him and depose chairman David Massie who removed him in August following a profit warning. The news comes as the AIM-listed vendor reports heavy losses for its first full year as a public company.
24 October 2005
The UK's Alliance & Leicester has opened the first of its new concept branches, part of a direct banking strategy it is implementing in a bid to cut costs.
20 October 2005
UniCredit Banca of Milan has contracted with US ATM manufacturer NCR for the supply of 151 Personas M Series 86 cash machines which feature a 'no envelope' deposit functionality.
13 October 2005
Kenyan ATM operator PesaPoint has selected European cash machine manufacturer Wincor Nixdorf to supply 120 ATMs which will be rolled out in towns and rural areas across the country.
11 October 2005
The UK's Nationwide Building Society says it is introducing new clearer signage across its free-to-use cash machines to make it easier for consumers to tell which ATMs impose charges. The move follows news from independent ATM operator Cardpoint that it had seen higher than expected profits from 275 formerly free-to-use ATMs it acquired from HBOS last year.
29 September 2005
Electronic payments processor and ATM operator Euronet is selling $155 million of convertible debt - $30 million more than originally planned - and says it plans to use the net proceeds to finance acquisitions.
The Bank of Guam has signed a $2 million dollar contract with US ATM manufacturer Diebold for the supply of 66 Opteva cash machines and the vendor's Agilis ATM software.
Banks in Japan have started rolling out biometric access systems on cash machines in a bid to fight fraud, with Nagasaki-based Juhachi Bank the first to pilot a finger-vein-based biometrics system developed by Hitachi.
28 September 2005
Police in Australia have arrested four men who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from bank accounts in an ATM card skimming scam.
26 September 2005
Struggling US ATM manufacturer Diebold has sacked its president and chief operating officer Eric Evans and cut $50 million from third quarter revenue forecasts.
21 September 2005
Over half of UK consumers still visit a bank branch each month, according to a study from Forrester Research, which also shows that ATM and Web banking growth has slowed in the past year.
20 September 2005
Non-bank foreign exchange operator Travelex has sold its UK ATM business - comprising 1100 units - to US-based TRM Corporation for £43.4 million.
02 September 2005
European cash machine vendor Wincor Nixdorf is teaming with German savings banks Hamburger Sparkasse (Haspa) and Sparkasse Bremen to form a joint venture that will provide IT services to financial institutions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
01 September 2005
UK telco BT is planning to add cash machines to its phone boxes in a bid to attract more customers, according to a report by the BBC.
24 August 2005
Shares in struggling ATM operator Scott Tod plummeted after the vendor sacked its chief executive officer and warned that it will incur full year pre-tax losses of around £1.1 million.
23 August 2005
German financial IT services company Sparkassen Informatik (SI) is rolling out Wincor Nixdorf's ProClassic Enterprise software across the 27,000 self-service units it manages for its 231 member banks.
18 August 2005
The UK's Co-operative Bank has signed a seven year outsourcing contract with Wincor Nixdorf for the end-to-end management of its entire 2400-strong ATM network.
15 August 2005
Four members of an ATM card skimming gang who could have stolen as much as £200,000 have each been gaoled for four years.
12 August 2005
Malaysian Electronic Payment System (Meps), the country's ATM switch operator, is rolling out a mobile top-up service across its network of cash machines.
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