It has been thirteen years since South African home-grown company, ATM Solutions, opened its doors with the aim to bring fully serviced, conveniently located and reliable ATMs to more areas in the country. Committed to achieving its goal of bringing banking to the people, Africa’s leading independent deployer and operator of ATMs today celebrated the opening of its 7th branch, which has been up and running since November last year and is situated in Witbank in the Mpumalanga region.

Paycorp Holdings, a leading Southern African payments company, is one of the first in the financial services industry to achieve PCI compliance. Paycorp Holdings and its three subsidiaries: ATM Solutions; DrawCard and EFTPOS share a common platform which is connected with the majority of Southern African banks and is active across all major payment streams. As a VISA third party processor and SARB authorised South African System Operator, adherence to and compliance with the requirements of PCI’s Data Security Standard (DSS) ensures that Paycorp Holdings remains a credible and preferred third party processor.

DrawCard, who was short-listed as a finalist in 4 categories at the 2011 Global Prepaid Awards, won the “Best Corporate Prepaid Card Award” at a prestigious ceremony held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Thursday 6 October.

ATM Solutions has announced that the company has decided to become a member of SABRIC (South African Banking Risk Information Centre) as from May 2011.

Extending access to southern Africa’s financial services is not only the domain of banks. Other players have successfully entered this market, such as ATM Solutions Group, a leader in the field of ATMs, electronic payments and transaction processing. Its flagship subsidiary, ATM Solutions, has been in the industry for 10 years as a formidable player in southern Africa’s banking technology space, deploying almost 4 000 off-premise ATMs. Other Group subsidiaries include DrawCard – a Visa- certified third-party...