India's IDBI lets customers invest in government bonds through ATMs

Banks in Saudi Arabia and a few other GCC counytries have been offering this service for over four years , plus more ATM serviecs. Good to see IDBI catching up through

Not sure about IDBI Bank in specific but many banks in India (e.g. ICICI Bank) have been supporting a fairly long list of features on their ATMs for over 15 years e.g. Mobile Top Up, Railway Ticketing, Event Ticketing, Temple & NPO Donations, P2P Payments to non-customers. Kudos to IDBI Bank for adding one more service to its ATMs. On a side note, though, it takes far longer to put through such non-cash transactions than a plain-vanilla cash withdrawal. Since ATM estates are sized on the basis of volumes of cash withdrawals, it's a challenge to ignore grumblings from people behind you in the queue when you actually try to carry out any of these non-cash transactions.