GLG News by Automated Teller Machines (ATM) Industry Experts

Euronet Worldwide has made numerous strategic acquisitions over the last several years, including payment processors, prepaid companies, funds transfer and bill payment firms and money transfer firms Ria and La Nacional, so its not surprising that Euronet sees MoneyGram as an attractive acquisition...

Countrywide's Home Loan Unit is under scrutiny by the IL and CA Attorney Generals regarding its loan origination practices. The SEC is also investigating Countrywide's CEO, Angelo Mozilo, who made significant stock trades before Countrywide's stock took a nose dive this year. Countrywide's shares has...

e-Payments growth accounted for over 66% of all noncash payments in 2006, contributing to the decline in check volume annually,  since 1995 when approximately 49.5 billion checks were paid. Approximately 30.6 billion checks were paid in 2006 with a value of $41.7 trillion, down from 37.3 billion...

Choppy markets may have led to Cardtronics shares falling more than 10% in its IPO debut on 12.11.07. Shares fell as low as $8.33 a share and never made it pass its $10 per share offering on 12.11.07. Based on the reduced size and price of its IPO, Cardtronics market cap is approximately $385 million....

1.  Countries adopting IFRS are not always adopting the same standards.  If you look closely, the term "as adopted' is being used a lot (e.g., China).  What that means is countries are adopting IFRS in principle, but are differing on interpretation and actual application/practice. 2. ...

TJX's data breach stretched from the U.S. to Canada and as far as the Ukraine, when one of the ring leaders was arrested for his role in TJX's data card breach. Reports first surfaced that more than 45 million cardholders had been affected, however, after Visa's investigation, the number more than doubled...

Executives from Bank of America, Capital One and Discover appeared before the Senate Committee on 12.4.07, to explain their credit card practices. Credit card executives defended the practices as "legal," however; critics denounce the practices and want Congress to regulate the credit card behemoths....

The downturn in the housing market has made banks reluctant to sink money into anything related to real estate and foreclosures are on the rise. U.S. banks and thrifts may have good reason to be concerned about lending as provisions for loan losses rose in 3Q07 and banks set aside $16.6 billion to cover...

Blackhawk Network teams up with Kroger Stores to afford consumers to shop conveniently for prepaid gift cards while picking up groceries, filling  prescriptions or other retail items. Blackhawk Network will offer Kroger's customers the variety, selection and convenience consumers seek, which are...

Wincor and NCR will assist Chase in deploying 900 check-imaged/ no-envelope deposit ATMs by 2008. Chase has already realized ROI with 50 piloted no-envelope deposit ATMs, including reduced transportation costs and fewer courier runs for ATM replenishment, elimination of fraud at the ATM, an increase...