ATMIA Announces Winners of International Industry Awards

The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) has announced the winners of its annual global industry awards, which were presented at the association’s major industry conference in Orlando attended by well over 500 professionals from around the globe.

Winners included Bill Jackson of Triton Systems, who received ATMIA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his role as a pioneer engineer of the off-premise or convenience ATM which has swept through markets across the world and changed self-service banking forever by bringing stand-alone ATMs closer to where consumers work, shop and live. The other awards were as follows:

Best ATM Technology Awards

Hardware Category

NCR Corporation
for the NCR's 'Deploy Anywhere' Personas 71

Software Category

First National Bank (South Africa)
for the bank’s use of an ATM as a sales and communication tool to its customers

ATM Security Category

NCR Corporation
for its Intelligent Fraud Detection system

The Global ATM Security Alliance’s ATM Crime Fighter of the Year 2005

Mike Urban, CardAlert Fraud Manager, Fair Isaac Corporation.

Best Contribution to the Industry 2005

Martin Lewis, Manager, Policy, Card Services, APACS & Chairman of the United Kingdom’s ATM Crime Group.

Most Influential Member Award 2005

Sandra Hartfield, President, Electronic Banking, Palm Desert National Bank and Chairwoman of ATMIA.

The awards were presented at a gala banquet addressed by leading forgery and fraud expert Mr. Frank Abagnale, whose life was the subject of Steven Spielberg’s hit movie “Catch Me if You Can”.

ATMIA employs a variety of selection methods for its industry awards, including using a panel of experts, member voting and executive board voting.

At least one of these awards criteria will have been met in order for success in this award:                                   

  • Long-term positive influence on improving the industry
  • Excellence in technology or levels of service
  • Leader in applying best practice
  • Specific and measurable achievements producing tangible results

“Sometimes, people and their companies make powerful yet less tangible contributions to the overall maturity of the industry and to the mood of confidence in the ATM,” commented Mike Lee, ATMIA’s CEO. “I love the excitement of the annual awards ceremony and the feeling of providing recognition to individuals and companies clearly in pursuit of excellence.”

Past ATMIA award winners can be seen on the association’s online Honor Roll http://www.atmianortham.com/honor_roll.asp.

 

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