Indian payment system company Electronic Payment and Services (EPS) has become the first board level member from India of the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA). ATMIA is engaged in non-competitive promotion of the ATM industry with its mission to promote ATM convenience, growth and usage worldwide, to protect the ATM industry’s assets, interests, good name and public trust and to provide education, best practices, political voice and networking opportunities for member organizations. ATMIA offers its members, amongst other services, access to a library of industry best practices, free educational webinars, discounted certified online international industry training and to a new market intelligence library. EPS, headquarted in Mumbai, specializes in the retail banking and technology domain and is highly adept at end-to-end ATM operations and outsourcing services, ATM managed services centre, transaction processing services and card management services. Pat Cunningham, ED, ATMIA (Africa, India and Middle East Region), said the decision by EPS to become board level members of ATMIA for the India region is a clear indication of the need for the emerging payments industry in India to be associated with a global organization of more than 5 000 members and with worldwide expertise not found in regional bodies.
