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RSS atms in newsNumber of free ATMs to increase by a third
News The initiative run by HM Treasury and the ATM Working Group was set up 18 months ago to offset the increase in charging ATMs and currently enables around 1.3 million UK citizens to avoid paying charges or travelling outside their community to... [18 Jul 2008]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News He said: "I see the internet more as a shopping mall for criminals with plenty of ATMs around the place. Describing the government policy towards e-crime as showing a "lack of clear leadership", shadow home secretary David Davis revealed Tory plans... [06 Mar 2008]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News Security experts have hacked ATMs to show how easy it is to steal money and bank account details from modern cash machines. ATMs today face the internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from malware that... [04 Mar 2008]
HSBC computer fault denies customers account access
News Shoppers across the UK trying to use their HSBC Maestro debit cards were unable to withdraw cash from ATMs or had their chip and PIN cards rejected by retailers. HSBC customers were denied access to their bank accounts at the weekend after an... [25 Feb 2008]
HSBC rolls out free convenience store ATMs
News High street bank HSBC has struck a deal with the Federation of National Retail Newsagents (FNRN) to roll out an unspecified number of free ATMs in convenience stores across the UK, in collaboration with hardware provider VocaLink. [22 Jan 2008]
Teradata and SAS going steady
News Teradata has its datawarehousing focus while NCR - for a while in the 1990s itself a unit of AT&T - is known for self-service, and, for instance, it is a major player in banking ATMs. Teradata, the datawarehouse software specialist with its own... [09 Oct 2007]
Are ATMs punching holes in customer confidence?
News One in three bank customers would switch their account based on the condition of the bank's ATM network, research claims. According to a study sponsored by ATM software company Level Four, 38 per cent of the 1,000 respondents said they would... [13 Aug 2007]
Alliance & Leicester banking on self-service
News On the high street, the bank said it has increased the number of ATMs that can take deposits as well as offer withdrawals at 103 branches over the period. The bank said 34 per cent of counter-based card transactions in branches with deposit-taking... [30 Jul 2007]
NatWest recovers from cash machine outage
News Millions of customers were unable to withdraw cash from ATMs or use the online and phone banking services during the day. NatWest has recovered following problems with its cash machines and online and telephone banking services on Saturday. [04 Jun 2007]
Cashing in on the ATM revolution
News She said: "Windows is an enabler in so far as it opens up opportunities that we didn't have before such as running adverts on our ATMs or offering foreign currency dispensing, although again there is a resource issue here. [02 May 2007]
Chip and PIN slaps face-to-face fraud
News According to Apacs cards and fraud control manager of operations, Martin Lewis, and head of cards technical unit David Baker, there are now 133 million chip and PIN cards in operation, supported by 900,000 sales terminals and more than 61,000 ATMs. [02 May 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News What's not understood is that for major merchants the cost of handling cash is virtually free because the banks want our notes for their ATMs. Retailers are increasingly worried that the forthcoming launch of contactless payment cards in the UK... [24 Apr 2007]
UK suffering fraud boom-time
News Lloyds TSB began installing anti-skimming devices in all its UK ATMs earlier this year. The number of phishing scams in the UK has escalated by 1,471 per cent in the last 12 months, the latest fraud figures from the UK payments association APACS... [07 Nov 2006]
Update: NatWest planned 'mini Y2K' on Sunday morning
News Update: All of NatWest's 6,500 UK cash machines went offline for several hours on 29 October 2006 from 01:00(GMT) to 06:00(GMT) as a result of the clocks going back one hour. A spokeswoman from NatWest told silicon.com: "It is necessary to set... [27 Oct 2006]
HSBC crash leaves customers cash-strapped
News The outage meant HSBC and First Direct customers were faced with service messages when trying to take out cash at ATMs or they had their cards declined when trying to pay in shops or restaurants. An HSBC network crash left thousands of customers... [16 Oct 2006]
