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3 Ways Financial Institutions Can Step Up for Underserved Communities

Perficient

The financial services industry must consider its customer experience game while also grappling with a sense of distrust from many communities due to systematic barriers, maintaining utmost accessibility due to the essentiality of the business, and the lack of financial literacy across the country. Trust and Transparency. .

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Visa rolls out cash access incentives for UK merchants in underbanked communities

Payments Dive

Visa is launching a program to expand access to cash for rural and low income communities in the U.K. amid reduced access to branch banking and ATM coverage. The program gives incentives to retailers to provide cash back to customers.

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ATM-as-a-Service – A Strategic Step on the Transformation Journey?

Gonzobanker

Moving from a traditional CAPEX model to an “as-a-service” OPEX model could be the key to transforming banks’ ATM/ITM channel. ATMs have changed a bit in the last few years. We understand how many financial institutions hard at work on their digital transformation strategies have pushed the ATM channel to the back burner.

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Virtual Tellers And Workhorse ATMs: Banking’s New (Digital-First) Normal

PYMNTS

back to some semblance of “normal” has challenges — and opportunities for banks, especially community banks and credit unions. Reinventing The ATM. Banking in the post-pandemic age, and with a “digital-first” mindset may also see a reinvention of the ATM, said Brown. Using Artificial Intelligence.

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Convenience Stores Losing ATMs In UK Over Higher Fees

PYMNTS

A decline in ATM usage in the U.K. has left many people resorting to only using their local shops to withdraw cash, due to a declining number of bank branches and free-to-use ATMs. If not, access to cash will be in danger in many communities. He told the BBC that he had to make that choice to retain business.

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Here Is Why Your Bank Should Reduce ATM Fees

South State Correspondent

Driven by the need to increase fee income, community banks have been raising out-of-network ATM fees which are now at record highs. While helping with fee income, this could be a long-run strategic mistake for community banks and may serve to decrease profitability instead of helping it.

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Lockdowns Drive Lower Revenues For ATM Owner Cardtronics

PYMNTS

Cardtronics , which calls itself the world’s largest ATM owner-operator, disclosed its first-quarter results on Friday (May 8), which reflected lower revenues due to lockdowns and some location closures. . Cardtronics’ ATM operating revenues dropped to $291.9 million, down from $318.3 million compared to Q1 in 2019. .

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