Latest Automated teller machines and network services News: Finextra Research

VTB will send ATMs for environmental recycling after their decommissioning

VTB and Ecopolis Corporation have launched a project for the recycling of electronic waste and equipment with an expired service life.

01 February 2021

News/payments

Which? ramps up campaign to protect cash network

Which? is urging the UK’s eight largest retail banks to publicly commit to maintaining cash access for the millions of people who still rely on it.

29 January 2021

News/payments

UK cash machine withdrawals drop by over a third in 2020

Successive Coronavirus lockdowns led to a 37% drop in UK ATM withdrawals in 2020, according to figures published by cash machine network Link.

27 January 2021

Company update/retail

NCR agrees Cardtronics acquisition

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a global enterprise technology provider for the financial, retail and hospitality industries, and Cardtronics (Nasdaq: CATM), the world’s largest non-bank ATM operator and service provider, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NCR will acquire all outstanding shares of Cardtronics for $39.00 per share in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $2.5 billion, including debt.

25 January 2021

Company update/Automated teller machines and network services

Contis collaborates with cardless cash provider, Pin4, in UK and Europe

Leading European Banking-as-a Service and payments provider, Contis, is delighted to announce its partnership with Pin4, an international fintech pioneering access to cash.

21 January 2021

News/inclusion

HSBC to close 82 UK branches; revamps network for digital age

HSBC will close 82 branches in the UK this year as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates the trend away from in-person banking and towards digital channels.

19 January 2021

News/crypto

Agricultural Bank of China tests digital currency at ATMs

The Agricultural Bank of China has equipped a number of ATMs with the means for customers to deposit and withdraw the central bank's new digital currency.

13 January 2021

News/payments

Unexploded bomb in Dutch cash collection machine forces lockdown of entire network

Dutch banks have shut down all sealbag machines - ATMs used for depositing cash by small businesses - after the discovery of an undetonated bomb in a machine located in the West-Frisian harbour town of Enkhuizen.

12 January 2021

Company update/payments

Fiserv expands MoneyPass ATM network to Capital One customers

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, announced today a new agreement with Capital One that will offer customers secure, convenient, surcharge-free access to their funds at thousands of ATMs across the nation.

11 January 2021

News/retail

NCR makes $1.7bn offer for Cardtronics

NCR has made a cash offer worth more than $1.7 billion to buy Cardtronics, trumping a bid made late last year for the ATM operator by Apollo Global Management and Hudson Executive Capital.

11 January 2021

News/crypto

Bitcoin cash outs arrive at 16,000 ATMs in the UK

Cryptocurrency holders can now cash out their bitcoin at 16,000 ATMs across the UK thanks to a collaboration between East London-based Cryptocurrency company BitcoinPoint and independent cash machine operator Cashzone.

23 December 2020

News/inclusion

OneBanks bids to bring human banking back to Scottish town

OneBanks, a UK startup that is working to put fully-staffed banking kiosks in places that high street lenders have left, is gearing up to open its first location in the Scottish town of Denny.

09 December 2020

News/retail

Belgian banks enlist Auriga for shared ATM network

Belgium's big four banks have called in vendor Auriga to manage their new network of bank-neutral ATMs.

04 December 2020

Company update/people

Perativ names Brian Jorgenson senior advisor

Perativ Holdings Inc. ("Perativ"), a retail bank focused SaaS platform that replaces classic cash forecasting to drive breakthrough cost reductions and cash optimization in bank ATM and Branch cash distribution networks is pleased to announce that Mr. Brian Jorgenson has joined as a Senior Advisor.

24 November 2020

News/payments

Coronavirus transmission risk from cash is low - BofE

The rush to abandon cash during the pandemic may be unnecessary, according to a scientific study from the Bank of England, which finds that the risk of Covid-19 transmission by banknotes is low.

24 November 2020

Company update/regulation

Surecomp Marketplace goes live with ThetaRay AML tech

Surecomp, the leading provider of global trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced ThetaRay as the latest fintech partner to be live on its Marketplace platform.

29 October 2020

News/startups

Green Dot invests in Gig Wage

Californian bank Green Dot is investing in and partnering with startup Gig Wage to bring banking and financial tools to gig workers.

28 October 2020

News/retail

Post Office to close 600 ATMs

The UK's Post Office is set to shut 600 of its 2000 ATMs over the next 18 months as it takes ownership of a network of machines currently operated by Bank of Ireland.

27 October 2020

Company update/Automated teller machines and network services

Paramount completes acquisition of First Regents Banc Services

Paramount Management Group today announced it has acquired First Regents Banc Services and Equipment, an independent ATM deployer based in Franklin, TN.

26 October 2020

Company update/retail

Diebold Nixdorf scores Truliant Federal Credit Union deal

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a global leader in driving connected commerce for the financial and retail industries, today announced that Truliant Federal Credit Union will expand its partnership by implementing DN AllConnect ServicesSM throughout its ATM network.

21 October 2020