Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Sicap, the Swisscom owned mobile solutions pioneer, and Wincor Nixdorf, the leading Automated Teller Machine (ATM) manufacturer and IT solutions provider to the retail banking sector, unveiled ATMs specially designed for unprecedented mobile money services, including cash-in / cash-out transfer facilities. Jointly designed and developed by Sicap and Wincor Nixdorf to install in retail outlets or offsite prime locations, the machines are set to kick-start the usage of ATMs for mobile network operators and mark an important evolution in how mobile customers interact with their operator.
“Being first to market with an m-transaction ATM confirms our pioneering spirit, our server-side expertise and our ability to deliver user-friendly services in their regional context. We are proud to partner with Wincor Nixdorf as a reputed leader in ATM technologies to achieve this.” said Jürgen Samuel, Sicap CEO
Mr. Stefan Auerbach – Executive Vice President of Wincor Nixdorf Banking added that “mobile money solutions powered by Wincor Nixdorf financial services expertise will give operators a clear competitive advantage and customers a consistent and worthwhile service experience. With its expertise in the network operator market, Sicap is an ideal partner for Wincor Nixdorf to expand our successful multichannel software approach to the benefit of mobile carriers.” Read more…
New solution portfolio for cash cycle management
Cash continues to be the number one payment medium. “Nine of ten payment transactions worldwide are made with cash. Our estimates show that this creates more than 300 billion dollars in costs, primarily for banks and retail businesses,” explains Eckard Heidloff, President and CEO of Wincor Nixdorf, at the opening of Wincor World 2010. The number of euro banknotes alone is growing at the rate of nine percent yearly according to the European Central Bank. On the whole, cash handling in Europe costs approximately 50 billion euros every year. Thus Heidloff presented a solution portfolio as the kickoff to Wincor World that makes the most of the common ground in cash handling processes at retail companies and banks, and takes a completely new approach. The portfolio, which Wincor Nixdorf is marketing under the name “Cash Cycle Management Solutions”, enables manual processes to be automated, with the result that bank and store employees no longer come into contact with cash. The results: maximum security, the greatest possible transparency, better processes and cost reductions of more than twenty percent.
Heidloff emphasized that Wincor Nixdorf continues to be a reliable and stable solution partner to banks and retailers. To be sure, the Group’s sales fell by six percent and its EBITA by thirteen percent year-on-year in the first quarter of the new fiscal year 2009/2010. And Heidloff added that Wincor Nixdorf expected sales and operating income to be down somewhat for the fiscal year as a whole, but not by more than in the last fiscal year 2008/2009, when sales fell by three percent and income by thirteen percent. The company’s objective is to remain stable throughout the crisis, while preparing for when the economy recovers in strength. Read more…
January 26, 2010
World’s largest ATM provider, largest self-checkout provider, largest healthcare self-service provider also one of top services providers for banks, retailers and other businesses
Duluth, Ga. – NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), best known as the world’s leading ATM provider for 23 consecutive years and the top provider of self-checkout technology for retailers, has vaulted into one of the top services providers for businesses in retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming and public sector. At the beginning of 2010, NCR’s 13,000 services professionals were helping power more than two million consumer points of service around the world, including ATMs, point of sale, self-check in at healthcare providers and airlines, and other multi-vendor self-service technology.
Beyond first- and second-line maintenance, NCR now provides a broad portfolio of higher-end managed services on more than 500,000 points of service for businesses worldwide, for services such as remote monitoring and incident management, cash management and software management. NCR processes more than $200 billion of hosted transaction value annually through its software hosting services, and online banking. These services take place in more than 3,000 separate locations in 110 countries, making NCR the only ATM manufacturer that is providing managed services on six continents.
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(Source: Business Wire)
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today announced it has signed a multimillion dollar deal with Westpac New Zealand to implement the country’s most up-to-date, standards-compliant ATM network and help fulfil the bank’s promise of better service in its branches.
By June 2010, more than 400 devices — 80 percent of the bank’s network – will be replaced with next generation NCR SelfServ ATMs, helping the bank reduce costs and improve customer service. In its new community branches, Westpac will deploy the NCR Teller Cash Recycler (TCR) solution, which promotes more face-to-face contact between customers and staff. Read more…
Maintains position as world’s most popular deposit automation ATM brand
Duluth, Ga. – The world’s leading ATM manufacturer and service provider, NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), has sold its 50,000th NCR SelfServ ATM, helping hundreds of financial institutions deliver improved service to consumers at the ATM channel through improved availability and increased transaction options. Launched less than two years ago in the U.S., NCR SelfServ already is the most successful ATM brand launch in the history of the company, which has led the world in ATM shipments for 23 consecutive years(1).
To date, NCR SelfServ ATMs have been purchased by more than 680 financial institutions in more than 110 countries around the world. The largest number of NCR SelfServ orders has been for multifunction units – ATMs with additional features beyond cash dispense including intelligent deposit. By adding multifunction ATMs, forward-thinking financial institutions are differentiating themselves from their competitors by giving consumers higher levels of convenience and more self-service transaction options for example bill payment and remittance.
In addition, NCR SelfServ ATMs have been designed to deliver the highest levels of availability – critical to customer satisfaction. Unique features such as self-healing technologies that allow the ATM to recover automatically without the need for human intervention, dual-roll receipt printers that ensure the ATM need never run out of paper and graphical operator panels that allow the bank employees to quickly and effectively perform routine maintenance tasks all ensure NCR SelfServ ATMs are “in service” when consumers want them.
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Wincor Nixdorf, a leading provider of hardware, software and services technology to banks and retailers, has acquired Siemens Inc.’s Information Technology Products & Services (ITPS) Division. The Manila-based company will now be named as Wincor Nixdorf Philippines Inc. and will operate as a full-fledged legal entity under the umbrella of the Wincor Nixdorf Group. The acquisition was effective June 1, 2009.
“Wincor Nixdorf is pleased to become the owner of this business after many years of cooperation with Siemens Inc.’s ITPS Division and is excited about expanding our business and solutions offerings to such a strategically important market,” says Lim Khoon Hong, Asia Pacific President and Executive Board Member at Wincor Nixdorf. Read more…
