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The ATMs of the Future

The boxy frame, the greasy touch screens, the seemingly endless series of bleeps and bloops required to produce your cash -- there's not much to love about the modern ATM. Sure, it's better than the original, which dispensed only money, and only to people with accounts at its host bank. But ATM makers have sought to improve their product, in part because U.S. usage fell 20% in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, to 11.8 billion transactions.READ»

Apple ATM? Patent Suggests Reinvented Cash Machines With iPhone Marriage

Apple's patent applications have got a bit single-minded of late, with lots to do with near-field communications radio--including this one, which has a cool twist: Apple, with its iPhone, wants to reinvent the ATM. We mentioned a ...READ»

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How brick & Mortar Banking Model will become a thing of past- Robin Trehan

The reason is that maintaining bank locations is extremely expensive and hurts the bottom line-robin trehanREAD»

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The Check-out of the Future: Fewer Humans, More Phones [video]

National Cash Register is one of those grand old American companies that, come the digital revolution, might have gone the way of the rotary phone. Instead, with a trimmed down name (now NCR), and a ramped up R&D operation, the ...READ»