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Italian researchers claim to have found a serious security flaw which enables skimming devices to steal data from chip and PIN cards at point-of-sale terminals and ATMs.
23 March 2011
First National Bank of South Africa is using mobile phones and SMS to provide temporary PIN codes for customers to make ATM cash withdrawals without the use of a bank card.
The Bank of England has signed up the country's 10 largest ATM operators to a commitment to increase the number of good quality £5 notes they dispense through their machines.
21 March 2011
Japan's Mizuho Bank says its ATMs and Internet banking services will be offline all weekend as it battles to fix computer problems.
18 March 2011
JP Morgan Chase has begun testing a $5 fee for non-customers using its cash machines.
17 March 2011
Amidst a surge in demand for cash, Japan's Mizuho Bank has been beset by computer problems that have knocked out its ATM network, Internet banking service and money transfer system.
With UK consumers increasingly going online to do their Christmas shopping they are also spending earlier, shifting from last-minute December buying to November, according to the Payments Council.
10 March 2011
A US man has been sentenced to eight years and one month in prison for running an $80 million Ponzi scheme involving fake investments in automatic teller machines.
01 March 2011
Police guards have been stationed at Commonwealth Bank ATMs after a system outage at the bank disrupted online banking, mobile and telephone transactions and caused some cash machines to spit out large amounts of cash to customers with no funds.
Members of an ATM card skimming gang that counted the husband of Irish president Mary McAleese among its victims have been jailed.
11 February 2011
A Russian man has pleaded guilty to his part in a 2008 cyber-attack on RBS WorldPay's computer network, which led to the theft of over $9.4 million, according to press reports.
08 February 2011
A Chinese man has been jailed for 10 years for building a fake cash machine and using it to steal victims' bank card details, according to local press reports.
28 January 2011
A Reserve Bank of India working group has called for the nation's banks to introduce two-factor authentication for online banking and recommended a move to Chip-only card transactions at the ATM and point-of-sale.
27 January 2011
Banco Santander is upgrading its Spanish ATM network, replacing 670 machines with new units from American vendor Diebold.
24 January 2011
Technology companies Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Wincor Nixdorf are to establish a joint venture - CI Tech Components AG - to develop and market security technology for authenticating and processing banknotes.
20 January 2011
Spanish bank BBVA has begun a nation-wide roll-out of state-of-the-art, touch screen "ATMs of the future".
12 January 2011
Buenos Aires has been hit by a notes and coins shortage, leaving cash machines empty and public transport services in chaos, according to local press reports.
07 January 2011
Britain's government wants ATM users to be automatically offered the option of making a charitable donation when they withdraw cash.
04 January 2011
Citi has officially opened a flagship, high-tech branch in New York's Union Square based on its "smart banking" outlets in Asia.
16 December 2010
Some Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest customers have been unable to complete payment transfers this morning as the group struggled to fix a systems problem.
14 December 2010
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