Frederick Lowe

California consumers will soon be able to pay utility bills with Apple Inc.'s iPhone, as part of a test announced last week by Tio Networks Corp.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers soon will be able to pay their utility bills with Apple Inc.'s iPhone as part of a pilot the San Francisco-based utility agreed to with bill-payments expediter Tio Networks Corp.

Sen. Tom Harkin has dropped plans to impose a 50-cent cap on automated teller machine surcharges, the National Association of ATM ISOs and Operators reported Wednesday.

Cardtronics Inc. temporarily shut down nearly 4% of its U.S. company- and merchant-owned automated teller machines in February after FBI agents arrested the owners of an armored-car service and charged them with fraud.

BPS SA says it is Europe's first bank to deploy an automated teller machine with biometric security.

The ATM Industry Association and vault-cash provider Cash Connect are urging automated teller machine operators to lobby against legislation that would limit ATM surcharges.

BPS SA has become Europe’s first financial institution to deploy a biometric ATM that enables customers to use their index fingers instead of cards and four-digit PINs to withdraw funds, the cooperative bank based in Warsaw, Poland, announced May 11.

Moneris Solutions Corp., Canada’s largest debit and credit card processor based on annual transactions, will adopt Canada’s voluntary code of conduct for the country’s debit and credit card industry. Moneris’ top executive announced the company’s decision May 13.

Automated teller machine deployments increased significantly last year in Central and Eastern Europe, but a slowdown in Russia pulled the overall growth rate down from the previous year, according to a report released this week by Retail Banking Research.

Small and midsize institutions are showing increased interest in advanced automated teller machines, according to Diebold Inc. and NCR Corp.

To generate revenue, some credit unions are encouraging their members to request cash back when they make debit card purchases at stores rather than withdrawing money from automated teller machines.

MasterCard Inc.'s new tiered interchange rates for domestic automated teller machine withdrawals could severely impact the independent sales organizations that operate networks of cash machines, according to executives.

The U.S. Council of Better Business Bureaus is warning consumers about online scams designed to get them to provide credit card and other personal information by offering free Apple Inc. iPads, which went on sale as of Saturday.

China has surpassed Japan to become the world's second-largest market for automated teller machines, according to Retail Banking Research.

PNC Financial Services and federal law-enforcement officials are investigating a debit card breach involving an undisclosed number of National City Bank customers in the Cincinnati area, says Fred Solomon, a PNC spokesperson.

MasterCard Inc. has long offered the ATM Hunter tool on its Web site, but interest skyrocketed when it released a version for smart phones.

Rev Worldwide, a prepaid card marketer that targets underserved markets in India, Romania, Kosovo, Australia and Mexico, is now making plans for the U.S. market.

MasterCard Worldwide today launched an ATM-finder application for Blackberry smartphones, nearly a year after the card brand rolled out the same free downloadable, customizable application for the Apple iPhone.

Operators of automated teller machine networks are bracing for costly upgrades now that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has said it plans to redesign the country's money to make banknotes easier for the blind and visually impaired to tell apart.

Morphis Inc., a Dallas payments-management software provider, has introduced a low-cost, online cash-forecasting tool that community banks and credit unions can use to manage their automated teller machines.