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Blik (stylised: blik) is a payment system in Poland that allows users to make instant payments and withdraw cash using only the user's standard mobile banking app .

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83-412: The system allows users to make online and in-store purchases and to transfer money in real time between bank accounts and ATMs , including cash withdrawal from ATMs, without the need of a payment card. Transactions are uniquely identified by a 6-digit one-time code , valid for 2 minutes, which the user generates and authenticates in their mobile banking app. The code can then be typed in online, entered on

166-461: A PIN stored on the card was developed by a group of engineers working at Smiths Group on the Chubb MD2 in 1965 and which has been credited to James Goodfellow (patent GB1197183 filed on 2 May 1966 with Anthony Davies). The essence of this system was that it enabled the verification of the customer with the debited account without human intervention. This patent is also the earliest instance of

249-628: A bank teller . John S. Reed was selected CEO in 1984, and Citi became a founding member of the CHAPS clearing house in London. Under his leadership, the next 14 years would see Citibank become the largest bank in the U.S., the largest issuer of credit cards and charge cards in the world, and expand its global reach to over 90 countries. As the bank's expansion continued, the Narre Warren-Caroline Springs credit card company

332-559: A telephone line or directly on a leased line. Leased lines are preferable to plain old telephone service (POTS) lines because they require less time to establish a connection. Less-trafficked machines will usually rely on a dial-up modem on a POTS line rather than using a leased line, since a leased line may be comparatively more expensive to operate compared to a POTS line. That dilemma may be solved as high-speed Internet VPN connections become more ubiquitous. Common lower-level layer communication protocols used by ATMs to communicate back to

415-520: A DACS in 1968 under the 'Scotcash' brand. Customers were given personal code numbers to activate the machines, similar to the modern PIN. They were also supplied with £10 vouchers. These were fed into the machine, and the corresponding amount debited from the customer's account. A Chubb-made ATM appeared in Sydney in 1969. This was the first ATM installed in Australia. The machine only dispensed $ 25 at

498-480: A Docuteller was designed by Donald Wetzel and his company Docutel. Chemical executives were initially hesitant about the electronic banking transition given the high cost of the early machines. Additionally, executives were concerned that customers would resist having machines handling their money. In 1995, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History recognised Docutel and Wetzel as

581-681: A bank branch's capabilities, and are thus more expensive. Off-premises machines are deployed by financial institutions where there is a simple need for cash, so they are generally cheaper single-function devices. Independent ATM deployers unaffiliated with banks install and maintain white-label ATMs . In the US, Canada and some Gulf countries , banks may have drive-thru lanes providing access to ATMs using an automobile. In recent times, countries like India and some countries in Africa are installing solar-powered ATMs in rural areas. The world's highest ATM

664-606: A complete "currency dispenser system" in the patent record. This patent was filed on 5 March 1968 in the US (US 3543904) and granted on 1 December 1970. It had a profound influence on the industry as a whole. Not only did future entrants into the cash dispenser market such as NCR Corporation and IBM licence Goodfellow's PIN system, but a number of later patents reference this patent as "Prior Art Device". Devices designed by British (i.e. Chubb, De La Rue) and Swedish (i.e. Asea Meteor) manufacturers quickly spread out. For example, given its link with Barclays , Bank of Scotland deployed

747-487: A foreign country. If the currency being withdrawn from the ATM is different from that in which the bank account is denominated, the money will be converted at the financial institution's exchange rate . Customers are typically identified by inserting a plastic ATM card (or some other acceptable payment card) into the ATM, with authentication being by the customer entering a personal identification number (PIN), which must match

830-574: A further $ 20 billion was invested in the company along with guarantees for risky assets of $ 306 billion. The guarantees were issued at a time markets were not confident Citi had enough liquidity to cover losses from those investments. Eventually, the Citi shares the Treasury took over in return for the guarantees it issued were booked as net profit for the treasury as Citi had enough liquidity and guarantees did not have to be used. By 2010, Citibank had repaid

913-445: A global decline in the number of ATMs in use, with the average dropping to 39 per 100,000 adults from a peak of 41 per 100,000 adults in 2020. An ATM is typically made up of the following devices: Due to heavier computing demands and the falling price of personal computer –like architectures, ATMs have moved away from custom hardware architectures using microcontrollers or application-specific integrated circuits and have adopted

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996-639: A month. The online version of the Swedish machine is listed to have been operational on 6 May 1968, while claiming to be the first online ATM in the world, ahead of similar claims by IBM and Lloyds Bank in 1971, and Oki in 1970. The collaboration of a small start-up called Speytec and Midland Bank developed a fourth machine which was marketed after 1969 in Europe and the US by the Burroughs Corporation . The patent for this device (GB1329964)

1079-436: A more diverse range of devices to attach to their networks, some interbank networks have passed rules expanding the definition of an ATM to be a terminal that either has the vault within its footprint or utilises the vault or cash drawer within the merchant establishment, which allows for the use of a scrip cash dispenser . ATMs typically connect directly to their host or ATM Controller on either ADSL or dial-up modem over

1162-621: A new ATM at Royal Bank of Scotland allowed customers to withdraw cash up to £130 without a card by inputting a six-digit code requested through their smartphones. ATMs can be placed at any location but are most often placed near or inside banks , shopping centers , airports , railway stations , metro stations , grocery stores , gas stations , restaurants , and other locations. ATMs are also found on cruise ships and on some US Navy ships, where sailors can draw out their pay. ATMs may be on- and off-premises. On-premises ATMs are typically more advanced, multi-function machines that complement

1245-703: A notification prompt and pin code or biometric login . Blik was launched in February 2015 by Polski Standard Płatności, an alliance of six Polish banks, itself a member of the European Mobile Payment Systems Association . The number of participating banks has grown since. Blik had 8,6 million users and processed 424 million transactions in 2020. In 2021, Blik introduced mobile contactless payments in ground terminals. Between 2019 and 2020, police reported several cases of fraud using Blik ATM withdrawal. By gaining access to

1328-595: A person's social media account, the perpetrator was able to request a loan from acquaintances and perform cash withdrawals if provided with a Blik code. The Blik service is available from the following banks: Automated teller machine This is an accepted version of this page An automated teller machine ( ATM ) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions , such as cash withdrawals, deposits, funds transfers, balance inquiries or account information inquiries, at any time and without

1411-425: A plastic identification card, and ten punched cards . One punch card functioned as a withdrawal slip for a 100 DM bill, the maximum limit for daily use was 400 DM. After looking firsthand at the experiences in Europe, in 1968 the ATM was pioneered in the U.S. by Donald Wetzel , who was a department head at a company called Docutel. Docutel was a subsidiary of Recognition Equipment Inc of Dallas , Texas , which

1494-842: A position he held until 1933. Under Mitchell, the bank expanded rapidly and by 1930 had 100 branches in 23 countries outside the United States. The policies pursued by the bank under Mitchell's leadership are seen by many people as one of the prime causes of the stock market crash of 1929, which led ultimately to the Great Depression . In 1933, the Pecora Commission , a United States Senate committee, investigated Mitchell for his part in tens of millions of dollars in losses, excessive pay, and tax avoidance, later leading to his resignation. U.S. Senator Carter Glass said of him, "Mitchell, more than any 50 men,

1577-518: A single product line, Docutel lost its independence and was forced to merge with the U.S. subsidiary of Olivetti . In 1973, Wetzel was granted U.S. Patent # 3,761,682 Archived 5 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine ; the application had been filed in October 1971. However, the U.S. patent record cites at least three previous applications from Docutel, all relevant to the development of

1660-469: A system that utilized encryption techniques to assure telephone link security while entering personal ID information that was transmitted to a remote location for verification. He founded Atalla Corporation (now Utimaco Atalla ) in 1972, and commercially launched the "Atalla Box" in 1973. The product was released as the Identikey. It was a card reader and customer identification system , providing

1743-417: A terminal with plastic card and PIN capabilities. The Identikey system consisted of a card reader console, two customer PIN pads , intelligent controller and built-in electronic interface package. The device consisted of two keypads , one for the customer and one for the teller. It allowed the customer to type in a secret code, which is transformed by the device, using a microprocessor, into another code for

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1826-465: A time and the bank card itself would be mailed to the user after the bank had processed the withdrawal. Asea Metior's Bancomat was the first ATM installed in Spain on 9 January 1969, in central Madrid by Banesto . This device dispensed 1,000 peseta bills (1 to 5 max). Each user had to introduce a security personal key using a combination of the ten numeric buttons. In March of the same year an ad with

1909-685: A vault be attached to the floor to prevent theft, though there is a record of a theft conducted by tunnelling into an ATM floor. Citibank Citibank, N.A. ("N. A." stands for " National Association "; stylized as citi bank) is the primary U.S. banking subsidiary of Citigroup , a financial services multinational corporation. Citibank was founded in 1812 as City Bank of New York , and later became First National City Bank of New York . The bank has branches in 19 countries. The U.S. branches are concentrated in six metropolitan areas, New York City , Chicago , Los Angeles , San Francisco , Washington, D.C. , and Miami . As of 2023, Citibank

1992-542: A way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash." The Barclays–De La Rue machine (called De La Rue Automatic Cash System or DACS) beat the Swedish saving banks ' and a company called Metior's machine (a device called Bankomat) by a mere nine days and British Westminster Bank's Smith Industries Chubb system (called Chubb MD2) by

2075-454: Is credited to the engineering team led by John Shepherd-Barron of printing firm De La Rue , who was awarded an OBE in the 2005 New Year Honours . Transactions were initiated by inserting paper cheques issued by a teller or cashier, marked with carbon-14 for machine readability and security, which in a later model were matched with a four-digit personal identification number (PIN). Shepherd-Barron stated: "It struck me there must be

2158-469: Is home to the majority of Citibank's US branches, with 292 branches located in the state.' Citi announced it may return its retail banking presence to Dallas in 2022. Citibank will take more than 9,000 square feet of space in the Berkshire Court building at Preston and Northwest Highway. Construction is scheduled to start on the new office early next year, according to planning documents filed with

2241-829: Is located at the Khunjerab Pass in Pakistan . Installed at an elevation of 4,693 metres (15,397 ft) by the National Bank of Pakistan , it is designed to work in temperatures as low as -40-degree Celsius. Most ATMs are connected to interbank networks , enabling people to withdraw and deposit money from machines not belonging to the bank where they have their accounts or in the countries where their accounts are held (enabling cash withdrawals in local currency). Some examples of interbank networks include NYCE , PULSE , PLUS , Cirrus , AFFN , Interac , Interswitch, STAR , LINK , MegaLink , and BancNet . ATMs rely on

2324-463: Is no current maximum interest rate or usury restriction under South Dakota law when a written agreement is formed. In 2005, Federated Department Stores, now Macy's, Inc. , sold its consumer credit portfolio to Citigroup, which reissued its cards under the name Department Stores National Bank (DSNB). As of 2013, Citibank employed 2,900 people in Sioux Falls , South Dakota, and contributed to

2407-579: Is responsible for this stock crash ." On December 24, 1927, its headquarters in Buenos Aires , Argentina, were blown up by the Italian anarchist Severino Di Giovanni , in the frame of the international campaign supporting Sacco and Vanzetti . In 1940 and 1941, branches in Germany and Japan closed. In 1945, the bank handled $ 5.6 billion in Treasury securities for War and Victory Loan drives for

2490-564: Is the fourth-largest bank in the United States in terms of assets. The City Bank of New York was founded on June 16, 1812. The first president of the City Bank was the statesman and retired Colonel, Samuel Osgood . After Osgood's death in August 1813, William Few became President of the bank, staying until 1817, followed by Peter Stagg (1817–1825), Thomas Smith (1825–1827), Isaac Wright (1827–1832), and Thomas Bloodgood (1832–1843). After

2573-682: Is within the footprint of the device itself and is where items of value are kept. Scrip cash dispensers, which print a receipt or scrip instead of cash, do not incorporate a vault. Mechanisms found inside the vault may include: ATM vaults are supplied by manufacturers in several grades. Factors influencing vault grade selection include cost, weight, regulatory requirements, ATM type, operator risk avoidance practices and internal volume requirements. Industry standard vault configurations include Underwriters Laboratories UL-291 "Business Hours" and Level 1 Safes, RAL TL-30 derivatives, and CEN EN 1143-1 - CEN III and CEN IV. ATM manufacturers recommend that

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2656-599: The American Civil War with $ 50 million in war bonds, opening the first foreign exchange department of any bank (1897), and receiving a $ 5 million deposit to be given to Spain for the US acquisition of the Philippines (1899). In 1865, the bank joined the national banking system of the United States under the National Bank Act and became The National City Bank of New York. By 1868, it was one of

2739-513: The Atalla Box , IBM 3614, IBM 3624 and 473x series, Diebold 10xx and TABS 9000 series, NCR 1780 and earlier NCR 770 series. The first switching system to enable shared automated teller machines between banks went into production operation on 3 February 1979, in Denver, Colorado, in an effort by Colorado National Bank of Denver and Kranzley and Company of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In 2012,

2822-670: The Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti , which was the sole commercial bank of Haiti and served as the Haitian government's treasury. Citibank then lobbied for the United States occupation of Haiti , which began in 1915. During the occupation, Citibank imposed a US$ 30 million loan on the Haitian government, which was described by communist George Padmore as transforming Haiti into an "American slave colony". Citibank would go on to acquire some of its largest gains in

2905-639: The International Banking Corporation (IBC), a company chartered to conduct banking business outside the U.S., which was forbidden to U.S. national banks. In 1918, IBC became a wholly owned subsidiary and was subsequently merged into the bank. The same year, the bank evacuated all of its employees from Moscow and Petrograd as the Russian Civil War had begun, but also established a branch in Puerto Rico . By 1919,

2988-459: The Panic of 1837 , Moses Taylor acquired control of the company. During Taylor's ascendancy, the bank functioned largely as a treasury and finance center for Taylor's own extensive business empire. Later presidents of the bank included Gorham A. Worth (1843–1856), Moses Taylor himself (1856–1882), Taylor's son-in-law Percy Rivington Pyne I , and James Stillman (1891–1909). In 1831, City Bank

3071-492: The "Computer Loan Machine" supplied cash as a three-month loan at 5% p.a. after inserting a credit card. The device was operational in 1966. However, little is known about the device. A cash machine was put into use by Barclays Bank, Enfield , north London in the United Kingdom, on 27 June 1967, which is recognized as the world's first ATM. This machine was inaugurated by English actor Reg Varney . This invention

3154-445: The "Everything Card"—in 1967. In 1967, Walter B. Wriston became chairman and chief executive officer of the bank. In the 1960s, the bank entered into the credit card business. In 1965, First National City Bank bought Carte Blanche from Hilton Hotels . Three years later, under pressure from the U.S. government, the bank sold this division. By 1968, the company created its own credit card. The card, known as " The Everything Card ",

3237-593: The 1920s due to debt payments from Haiti, according to later filings to the Senate Finance Committee . When the Federal Reserve Act allowed it, National City Bank became the first U.S. national bank to open an overseas banking office when it opened a branch in Buenos Aires , Argentina, in 1914. Many of Citi's present international offices are older; offices in London, Shanghai, Calcutta , and elsewhere were opened in 1901 and 1902 by

3320-448: The 1970s, Citibank was one of the first U.S. banks to introduce automatic teller machines (ATMs), which gave customers 24-hour access to cash. In 2002, Citigroup, the parent of Citibank, acquired Golden State Bancorp and its California Federal Bank , which was one-third owned by Ronald O. Perelman , for $ 5.8 billion. In 1999, Citibank was sued for improperly charging late fees on its credit cards. In August 2004, Citigroup entered

3403-458: The ATM and where Wetzel does not figure, namely US Patent # 3,662,343 Archived 5 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine , U.S. Patent # 3651976 Archived 5 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine and U.S. Patent # 3,68,569 Archived 5 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine . These patents are all credited to Kenneth S. Goldstein, MR Karecki, TR Barnes, GR Chastian and John D. White. In April 1971, Busicom began to manufacture ATMs based on

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3486-448: The ATM screen, or typed by the payment recipient in their mobile app. The resulting payments are near instant. Blik allows phone number transfers by binding a phone number with a bank account. These transfers are free and instantaneous, even between accounts from different banks. Some online shopping platforms, like Allegro , are able to connect a customer account to a Blik-compatible app instance allowing for payment confirmation with just

3569-556: The Chicago banking factions accused U.S. Secretary of the Treasury L. M. Shaw of having too close of a relationship with National City and other Wall Street operators. In 1907, Stillman, then the bank's chairman, intervened, along with J. P. Morgan and George Fisher Baker , in the Panic of 1907 . Between 1910 and 1911, the Department of State backed a consortium of American investors headed by Citibank to acquire control over

3652-604: The PIN stored in the chip on the card (if the card is so equipped), or in the issuing financial institution's database. According to the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) , as of 2015 , there were close to 3.5 million ATMs installed worldwide. However, the use of ATMs is gradually declining with the increase in cashless payment systems. The idea of out-of-hours cash distribution was first put into practice in Japan,

3735-551: The Texas market with the purchase of First American Bank of Bryan, Texas . The deal established the firm's retail banking presence in Texas, giving Citibank over 100 branches, $ 3.5 billion in assets and approximately 120,000 customers in the state. In 2006, the bank entered the Philadelphia market, opening 23 branches in the metropolitan area. In 2013, Citibank closed these locations for "efficiency-driven" reasons. In 2006,

3818-539: The U.S. government. In 1952, James Stillman Rockefeller was elected president and then chairman in 1959, serving until 1967. Stillman was a direct descendant of the Rockefeller family through the William Rockefeller (the brother of John D. ) branch. In 1960, his second cousin, David Rockefeller , became president of Chase Manhattan Bank , National City's long-time New York rival for dominance in

3901-504: The United Kingdom and Sweden. In 1960, Armenian-American inventor Luther Simjian invented an automated deposit machine (accepting coins, cash and cheques) although it did not have cash dispensing features. His US patent was first filed on 30 June 1960 and granted on 26 February 1963. The roll-out of this machine, called Bankograph, was delayed by a couple of years, due in part to Simjian's Reflectone Electronics Inc. being acquired by Universal Match Corporation. An experimental Bankograph

3984-401: The authorization of a financial transaction by the card issuer or other authorizing institution on a communications network. This is often performed through an ISO 8583 messaging system. Many banks charge ATM usage fees . In some cases, these fees are charged solely to users who are not customers of the bank that operates the ATM; in other cases, they apply to all users. In order to allow

4067-593: The bank had become the first U.S. bank to have $ 1 billion in assets. As of March 9, 1921, there were four national banks in New York City operating branch offices: Chatham and Phenix National , the Mechanics and Metals National , the Irving National , and National City Bank. Charles E. Mitchell , also called "Sunshine" Charlie Mitchell, was elected president in 1921. In 1929, he was made chairman,

4150-615: The bank had been nicknamed "Citibank" since the 1860s, when City Bank of New York adopted it as an eight-letter wire code address. "Citicorp" became the holding company's formal name in 1974, and in 1976, First National City Bank was renamed Citibank, N.A. The name change also helped to avoid confusion in Ohio with Cleveland -based National City Corp. , though the banks never had any significant overlapping areas except for Citi credit cards issued in National City territory. In addition, at

4233-550: The bank include SNA over SDLC , a multidrop protocol over Async , X.25 , and TCP/IP over Ethernet . In addition to methods employed for transaction security and secrecy, all communications traffic between the ATM and the Transaction Processor may also be encrypted using methods such as SSL . There are no hard international or government-compiled numbers totaling the complete number of ATMs in use worldwide. Estimates as of 2015 developed by ATMIA placed

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4316-622: The bank set aside $ 3 billion in reserves for loan losses in Brazil and other developing countries . In 1990, the bank established a subsidiary in Poland. In 1994, it became the world's biggest card issuer. Also in the 1980s, the bank launched the Citicard, which allowed customers to perform all transactions without a passbook . Branches also had terminals with simple one-line displays that allowed customers to get basic account information without

4399-571: The banking industry in the United States. Following its merger with the First National Bank in 1955, the bank changed its name to The First National City Bank of New York, then shortened it to First National City Bank in 1962. It is also worth noting that the bank began recruiting at Harvard Business School in 1957, arranged the financing of the 1958 Hollywood film, South Pacific , and had its branches in Cuba nationalized in 1959 by

4482-422: The company announced a naming rights sponsorship deal for the new stadium of New York Mets , Citi Field , which opened in 2009. The deal reportedly required payments by Citi of $ 20 million per year for 20 years. As of September 2020, Citibank's US branches are located in the metropolitan areas of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Washington DC, Las Vegas, Miami, and Chicago. California

4565-485: The company's German division, was sold to Crédit Mutuel . On February 22, 2010, it was renamed to Targobank . In August 2008, after a three-year investigation by the California Attorney General , Citibank was ordered to repay the $ 14 million that was removed from 53,000 customers accounts over an 11-year period from 1992 to 2003, plus an additional $ 4 million in interest and penalties. The money

4648-618: The first commercial microprocessor , the Intel 4004 . Busicom manufactured these microprocessor-based automated teller machines for several buyers, with NCR Corporation as the main customer. Mohamed Atalla invented the first hardware security module (HSM), dubbed the "Atalla Box", a security system which encrypted PIN and ATM messages, and protected offline devices with an un-guessable PIN-generating key. In March 1972, Atalla filed U.S. patent 3,938,091 for his PIN verification system, which included an encoded card reader and described

4731-458: The fourth quarter of 2007, after an $ 18.1 billion write down. In March 2008, Citibank set up Mobile Money Ventures, a joint venture with SK Telecom , to develop mobile apps for banking. It sold the venture to Intuit in June 2011. In May 2008, the company closed an $ 87.5 million leaseback transaction for branches in New York City. In July 2008, Citibank Privatkunden AG & Co. KGaA ,

4814-793: The hardware architecture of a personal computer, such as USB connections for peripherals, Ethernet and IP communications, and use personal computer operating systems. Business owners often lease ATMs from service providers. However, based on the economies of scale, the price of equipment has dropped to the point where many business owners are simply paying for ATMs using a credit card. New ADA voice and text-to-speech guidelines imposed in 2010, but required by March 2012 have forced many ATM owners to either upgrade non-compliant machines or dispose them if they are not upgradable, and purchase new compliant equipment. This has created an avenue for hackers and thieves to obtain ATM hardware at junkyards from improperly disposed decommissioned machines. The vault of an ATM

4897-480: The instructions to use the Bancomat was published in the same newspaper. In West Germany , the first ATM was installed in the 50,000-people university city of Tübingen on May 27, 1968, by Kreissparkasse Tübingen. It was built by Aalen -based safe builder Ostertag AG in cooperation with AEG-Telefunken . Each of the 1,000 selected users were given a double-bit key to open the safe with "Geldausgabe" written on it,

4980-507: The inventors of the networked ATM. To show confidence in Docutel, Chemical installed the first four production machines in a marketing test that proved they worked reliably, customers would use them and even pay a fee for usage. Based on this, banks around the country began to experiment with ATM installations. By 1974, Docutel had acquired 70 percent of the U.S. market; but as a result of the early 1970s worldwide recession and its reliance on

5063-626: The large number of ATMs, there is additional demand for machines in the Asia/Pacific area as well as in Latin America. Macau may have the highest density of ATMs at 254 ATMs per 100,000 adults. With the uptake of cashless payment solutions in the late 2010s, ATM numbers and usage started to decline. This happened first in developed countries at a time when ATM number were still increasing in Asia and Africa. As of 2021 , there had been

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5146-478: The largest banks in the United States. The bank became the largest bank in New York City following the Panic of 1893 . Two years later, in 1895, it had become the largest bank in the U.S. In 1904, the bank helped finance the Panama Canal . Two years later, in 1906, 11% of the U.S. federal government 's bank balances were held by National City. National City at this time was the banker of Standard Oil , and

5229-455: The loans from the Treasury in full, including interest, resulting in a net profit for the U.S. federal government. On January 16, 2009, Citigroup announced that it was separating Citi Holdings Inc. , its non-core businesses such as brokerage, asset management, and local consumer finance and higher-risk assets, from Citicorp. The split was presented as allowing Citibank to concentrate on its core banking business. On October 19, 2011, Citigroup,

5312-455: The need for direct interaction with bank staff. ATMs are known by a variety of names, including automatic teller machines (ATM) in the United States (sometimes redundantly as "ATM machine"). In Canada, the term automated banking machine (ABM) is also used, although ATM is also very commonly used in Canada, with many Canadian organizations using ATM rather than ABM. In British English,

5395-464: The new socialist government, and has its first African-American director in 1969, Franklin A. Thomas . The company organically entered the leasing and credit card sectors, and its introduction of US dollar-denominated certificates of deposit in London marked the first new negotiable instrument in the market since 1888. Later to become part of MasterCard , the bank introduced its First National City Charge Service credit card—popularly known as

5478-404: The number of ATMs in use at 3 million units, or approximately 1 ATM per 3,000 people in the world. To simplify the analysis of ATM usage around the world, financial institutions generally divide the world into seven regions, based on the penetration rates, usage statistics, and features deployed. Four regions (USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan) have high numbers of ATMs per million people. Despite

5561-453: The parent of Citibank, agreed to a $ 285 million civil fraud penalty after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused the company of betting against risky mortgage-related investments that it sold to its clients. In 2014, Citigroup announced it would exit retail banking in 11 markets, primarily in Europe and Central America. In September 2014, it exited the Texas market with the sale of 41 branches to BB&T . In September 2015,

5644-723: The parent of Citibank, announced layoffs of 17,000 employees, or 8% of its workforce. On November 4, 2007, Charles Prince resigned as the chairman and chief executive of Citigroup, the parent of Citibank, following crisis meetings with the board in New York in the wake of billions of dollars in losses related to subprime lending . Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin took over as chairman, subsequently hiring Vikram Pandit as chief executive. On November 5, 2007, several days after Merrill Lynch announced that it too had been losing billions from

5727-509: The state holding more bank assets than any other state. In 2013, Citibank purchased the credit card portfolio of Best Buy from Capital One. On April 1, 2016, Citigroup became the exclusive issuer of Costco 's branded credit cards. The bank's private-label credit card division, Citi Retail Services, issues store-issued credit cards for such companies as: American Airlines , Best Buy , ConocoPhillips , Costco , ExxonMobil , The Home Depot , Sears , Shell Oil , and Staples Inc. In

5810-578: The state. The new Citibank office is described as an "experience center" in the planning documents. The plans identify the operation as "retail bank/office space". Citibank doesn't have a major retail banking presence in the Dallas area. A spokesman in the bank's New York office would not give details about what is planned in the North Dallas location. "We'll decline to comment on this," said Citibank's Drew Benson in an email. On April 11, 2007, Citigroup,

5893-413: The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, Citi reported that it will lose between $ 8 billion and $ 11 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007, in addition to the $ 6.5 billion it lost in the third quarter of 2007. Effective November 30, 2007, Citibank sold its 17 Puerto Rico branches, along with $ 1.0 billion in deposits, to Banco Popular . In January 2008, Citigroup reported a $ 10 billion loss in

5976-495: The teller. During a transaction , the customer's account number was read by the card reader . This process replaced manual entry and avoided possible key stroke errors. It allowed users to replace traditional customer verification methods such as signature verification and test questions with a secure PIN system. The success of the "Atalla Box" led to the wide adoption of hardware security modules in ATMs. Its PIN verification process

6059-454: The terms cashpoint , cash machine and hole in the wall are also used. ATMs that are not operated by a financial institution are known as " white-label " ATMs. Using an ATM, customers can access their bank deposit or credit accounts in order to make a variety of financial transactions, most notably cash withdrawals and balance checking, as well as transferring credit to and from mobile phones. ATMs can also be used to withdraw cash in

6142-409: The time of the name change to Citicorp, in 1968, National City of Ohio was mostly a Cleveland-area bank and had not gone on its acquisition spree that would occur in the 1990s and 2000s. Any possible name confusion had Citi not changed its name from National City eventually became completely moot when PNC Financial Services acquired National City in 2008 during the subprime mortgage crisis . In 1987,

6225-451: Was a true ATM, similar in function to today's machines and named Cashpoint by Lloyds Bank. Cashpoint is still a registered trademark of Lloyds Banking Group in the UK but is often used as a generic trademark to refer to ATMs of all UK banks. All were online and issued a variable amount which was immediately deducted from the account. A small number of 2984s were supplied to a U.S. bank. A couple of well known historical models of ATMs include

6308-694: Was filed in September 1969 (and granted in 1973) by John David Edwards, Leonard Perkins, John Henry Donald, Peter Lee Chappell, Sean Benjamin Newcombe, and Malcom David Roe. Both the DACS and MD2 accepted only a single-use token or voucher which was retained by the machine, while the Speytec worked with a card with a magnetic stripe at the back. They used principles including Carbon-14 and low-coercivity magnetism in order to make fraud more difficult. The idea of

6391-465: Was installed in New York City in 1961 by the City Bank of New York , but removed after six months due to the lack of customer acceptance. In 1962 Adrian Ashfield invented the idea of a card system to securely identify a user and control and monitor the dispensing of goods or services. This was granted UK Patent 959,713 in June 1964 and assigned to Kins Developments Limited. A Japanese device called

6474-573: Was producing optical scanning equipment and had instructed Docutel to explore automated baggage handling and automated gasoline pumps. On 2 September 1969, Chemical Bank installed a prototype ATM in the U.S. at its branch in Rockville Centre, New York . The first ATMs were designed to dispense a fixed amount of cash when a user inserted a specially coded card. A Chemical Bank advertisement boasted "On Sept. 2 our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again." Chemical's ATM, initially known as

6557-675: Was promoted as a kind of East Coast version of the BankAmericard . By 1969, First National City Bank decided that the Everything Card was too costly to promote as an independent brand and joined Master Charge (now MasterCard ). Citibank unsuccessfully tried again from 1977 to 1987 to create a separate credit card brand, the Choice Card . In 1967, First National City Bank reorganized as a one-bank holding company, First National City Corporation, or "Citicorp" for short. However,

6640-431: Was purchased in 1981. In 1981, Citibank chartered a South Dakota subsidiary to take advantage of new laws that raised the state's maximum permissible interest rate on loans to 25% (then the highest in the nation). In many other states, usury laws prevented banks from charging interest that aligned with the extremely high costs of lending money in the late 1970s and early 1980s, making consumer lending unprofitable. There

6723-466: Was similar to the later IBM 3624 . Atalla's HSM products protect 250   million card transactions every day as of 2013, and secure the majority of the world's ATM transactions as of 2014. The IBM 2984 was a modern ATM and came into use at Lloyds Bank, High Street, Brentwood, Essex, the UK in December 1972. The IBM 2984 was designed at the request of Lloyds Bank . The 2984 Cash Issuing Terminal

6806-470: Was taken under an electronic "account sweeping program" where any positive balances from over-payments or double payments were removed without notice to the customers. As a result of the 2007–2008 financial crisis and huge losses in the value of its subprime mortgage assets, Citigroup, the parent of Citibank, received a bailout in the form of an investment from the U.S. Treasury . On November 23, 2008, in addition to an initial investment of $ 25 billion,

6889-516: Was the site of one of America's first bank heists when two burglars, James Honeyman and William J. Murray, made off with tens of thousands of dollars' worth of bank notes, and 398 gold doubloons , the equivalent of $ 52 million in 2013 currency. The bank financed war bonds for the War of 1812 , serving as a founding member of the financial clearinghouse in New York (1853), underwriting the Union during

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