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A white-label ATM is similar to a normal bank ATM but is not owned by a bank, instead by a private ATM service provider.
Customers will not be charged for ATM withdrawals from April 1, Reserve Bank of India deputy governor V Leeladhar announced in Mumbai on Monday.
The RBI notification said there is no change in weekly withdrawal limits and such disbursals should predominantly be in the denomination of Rs 500
Private sector lender Bandhan Bank on Friday said its founder, managing director and CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh has tendered his resignation. Ghosh would retire from the services of the bank as MD and CEO upon completion of his current tenure on July 9, 2024, the bank said in a regulatory filing. "After leading the bank for almost a decade, including three consecutive tenures as MD & CEO, I feel that the time has now come for me to assume a larger strategic role at Bandhan group level," Ghosh said in a letter addressed to the board.
The Shiv Sena on Friday accused the Centre of using Mumbai, the financial capital of India, as an ATM and said that if security arrangements made for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Mumbai are in place for the common man, there would be no terror attacks in the city.Referring to Rahul's stop at an ATM en route to Andheri station, Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said, "Mumbai has been made an ATM (Any Time Money) for Delhi."
The Indian National Congress is in no way connected with the businesses of Dheeraj Sahu, MP. Only he can explain, Congress general secretary in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh said.
The endless wait to get valid currency notes was also taking a toll on people waiting for hours in long queues as there were reports of many elderly people collapsing out of fatigue.
The banks, however, will have the freedom to fix charges for withdrawal of cash from ATMs through credit cards and from ATMs abroad. The guidelines on free ATM use, which were released by the Reserve Bank of India in March last year, were issued in pursuance of the approach paper on ATM charges brought out by RBI in December 2007. It also included abolishing the fee on cash withdrawal from ATMs from April 1, 2009.
A series of low-intensity bomb blasts on Wednesday targeted ATM machines of a state-run bank and railway tracks in Sindh province of southern Pakistan, injuring at least six people. There were at least 16 blasts in cities and towns across Sindh, including the capital city of Karachi. A policeman was among the six people injured in the blasts.
Nandan Nilekani-led task force on an Aadhaar-enabled unified payment infrastructure has recommended setting up a network of one million interoperable micro-ATMs across the country.
The Reserve Bank on Tuesday allowed banks to open ATMs outside their branches without permission from the central bank.
ICICI Bank has a network of 1,416 branches and over 4,600 automated teller machines across the country, which it manages by itself, while several other banks have outsourced their ATM management and POS (credit and debit card payment accepting) terminals.
As of December 2010, the bank's total outlets, including branches, stood at 5,017. Its ATM network stood at 2,516 units.
A report Tuesday from Gartner Inc., a technology analyst firm, estimates that 3 million US consumers were victims of ATM and debit-card fraud in the past year.
Banks that own ATMs charge an inter-change fee for providing the facility to the customers of other banks. For larger players such as SBI, ICICI, HDFC and Axis Bank, the shift would mean higher revenues as customers would tend to use the nearest ATM. Smaller banks, which already allow their account holders to access any ATM without having to pay a transaction charge, fear the bigger players, sensing an opportunity, may increase the inter-change fee over the next 6 months.
The move will help curb card frauds. Currently, customers use only personal identification number for automated teller machine transactions.
The banks, however, will have the freedom to fix charges for withdrawal of cash from ATMs through credit cards and from ATMs abroad. The ATM services have become free as the Reserve Bank of India, while issuing guidelines on charges for use of ATMs, has asked the banks to abolish with immediate effect all charges on services such as balance enquiry. It implies that an ATM card holder would be able to withdraw cash from any bank ATM in India from April 1, 2009.
Private banks and start-ups offer instant loans on apps as well as through ATMs.
The only thing that's clear is the October 15 deadline for the end of free third-party ATM use.
State Bank of India has entered into an alliance with HDFC Bank for sharing ATM networks to be operationalised from February 3 this year.
Bank of India has become the first state-run lender to allow withdrawal of funds to individuals from its ATMs without an account in the bank.
Imagine a tiny automated teller machine (ATM) that could be carried anywhere in your bag. Unusual it may sound, but Gujarat will soon have such small ATMs. In a novel initiative to make rural banking hassle-free, public-sector bank Dena Bank is gearing up to roll out these little ATMs in a couple of rural areas on experimental basis.
Vatsal Ramaiya draws wisdom from the Bhagvad Gita and correlates it to how you can build a decent corpus to achieve a peaceful retirement.
Private sector lender HDFC Bank on Wednesday launched a service whereby its 115 lakh debit card holders can pay income tax through the bank's ATMs.
With banks struggling to cope with rush to get alternative currency, the government has extended use of old defunct Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for paying household utility bills, fuel, taxes and fees and purchases from co-operative stores till November 24.
According to a bank source, a link failure was responsible for all the inconvenience
Second authentication for small value payments through credit cards can be reduced subject to conditions.
As dawn breaks, two queues start forming at the only petrol pump inLakshmangarh, a small town in Rajasthan's Alwar district.
The limit on withdrawal from current accounts has been enhanced to Rs 100,000 per week.
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