Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking

ISBN-13: 9780198782810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Opis

This book uses the invention and development of the automated teller machine (ATM) to explain the birth and evolution of digital banking, from the 1960s to present day. The discussion tackles head on the drivers of long-term innovation in retail banking.

Recenzje

By empowering bank customers to use sophisticated but simple-to-use self-service technology to access their bank accounts and cash outside the branch and its limited hours, the ATM revolutionised not just banking but the way we live today. The world's number one ATM historian has penned a definitive account of the rise of the ATM to its current pre-eminence as an indispensable retail bank channel. Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking satisfies the highest academic standards of objectivity while narrating a complex global story of technological evolution in human, cultural terms. This is the bible of ATM history for scholars, business leaders, technophiles and savvy consumers.

O autorze

Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo is a professor of business history and bank management at Bangor University, Wales. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is a world class authority on the automation of banking, financial technology, and cashless retail payments. His previous books have included The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary Views of the Cashless Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Cash Box: The Invention and Globalization of the ATM (NetWorld Media Group and ATM Industry Association, 2013), and Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives.