NCR Enables ATMs that use Mobile Devices and Barcodes

New software from NCR Corporation will allow consumers to initiate cash withdrawals from their banking accounts on mobile devices and then complete those transactions at an ATM by scanning a 2D barcode.

NCR Mobile Cash Withdrawal will make ATM transactions faster and more secure by removing cards and PINs from the process at the ATM. The entire transaction, while the consumer is in front of the ATM, can take less than 10 seconds, according to NCR.

The point is that there are lots of ways to handle the communications function between a mobile device and a transaction terminal. Near field communications is one way, but only one way.