NORTH CANTON, Ohio — Diebold Switzerland recently upgraded more than 750 ATMs owned by Raiffeisenbanks Switzerland. The upgrade makes Raiffeisen's machines compliant with euro and EMV, the Europay/MasterCard/Visa standard.
A total of 180 Diebold ATMs were replaced with newer models, 50 of them with Opteva units. The new units passed the Telekurs certification process, which is compulsory for all Swiss cash withdrawal equipment connected to the Telekurs network, and the new inter-bank network application known as BM5.0.
According to a news release, the newer specifications allow for "express" transactions at the ATM, which allow people who are visually impaired to repeat the previous transaction with only a few keystrokes.
To complete the project, Diebold worked with the Swiss Union of Raiffeisen Banks, which represents more than 470 Raiffeisen banks, as well as with Raiffeisen Informatics and Zuhlke Engineering.
The team developed a new software application based on the latest standards, including BM5.0, EMV 4.0 L2, XFS 3.0 and Diebold's Agilis platform. In the future, this new application will greatly simplify both maintenance and software testing. It will also provide for future evolution, such as software downloads, Triple DES and biometric recognition techniques, according to the release.
