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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
HSBC is collaborating with Visa on a six-month internal pilot of a combined multi-application credit and debit card.
A US federal grand jury has indicted eight Eastern Europeans in connection with a crime ring accused of hacking into the computer network of RBS WorldPay, creating counterfeit debit cards and withdrawing over $9 million in 12 hours from ATMs around the world.
11 November 2009
Turkish bank TEB-BNP Paribas and US vendor First Data have agreed to build a 1250-strong retail ATM network over the next three years.
03 November 2009
Visa has stepped up its migration to chip and PIN cards in Australia and will ban signature transactions by April 2013.
02 November 2009
Jack Henry & Associates has acquired Washington-based Pemco Technologies, a payment processor that mainly works with credit unions. Financial terms were not disclosed.
30 October 2009
Aite Group estimates that nearly 10 million US cardholders experienced problems using their credit cards abroad in 2008 alone, a majority of which changed their card usage behavior as a result.
26 October 2009
An Australian pizza boy who hacked into ATMs and changed their settings before stealing around A$30,000 in under an hour has escaped a prison term, according to local press reports.
23 October 2009
Shares in NCR plummeted 15% in morning trading after the US ATM manufacturer posted an 81% fall in third quarter profit, slashed its full year outlook and outlined plans to lay off up to 10% of its staff.
22 October 2009
The European ATM Security Team (East) is reporting a sharp rise in losses from 'card trapping' scams at European cash machines for the first six months of 2009.
21 October 2009
The UK financial services industry experienced a 55% spike in losses from online banking fraud in the six months to June 2009 as cybercrooks adopted more sophisticated tactics to dupe consumers.
07 October 2009
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