Tag Archives: ATMs

Greeks and tourists experienced a problem over the pre-Christmas days: the system for payments with debits and credit cards or withdraw money form the ATM seems to have been blocked due to the high demand The problem started a few days ago reaching its peak on Saturday and Sunday, December …

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ATMs in Greece are to be radically modernized and offer a series of transactions possibilities that are currently being offered only at the bank counter. The country’s banks plan to replace the ATMs inside and outside the bank branches with a new generation of automated teller machines offering multiple transactions …

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Have you lost trust to Greek banks? Do you hate the Euro? Do you feel the capital controls restrict your business and private activities?No problem. There are alternatives. The Bitcoins, for example, the web-based digital currency. In order to facilitate business activities free of capital controls and the €uro and …

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Greek Finance Ministry announced on 8. July that banks will remain closed until at least midnight on 13 July 2015, that is one day after the EU Summit on Sunday. The Finance Ministry further announced that   * Daily withdrawal from ATM remains at €60. *Pensioners without credit or debit …

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“I have enough cash and enough food at home. Now, I sit and wait,” a friend told me this morning. Anna is extremely worried that creditors will let Greece down with whatever the cost for the society. “They want Greece out of the euro and the EU, whatever the government …

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Sunday… Monday… Tuesday… Wednesday… Four very crucial days that will determine whether the average Greek will still be able to withdraw a couple of euro banknotes from the ATMs, whether the pensioner will be able to get hold of the whole of his July pension.  Whether the Greek banks will …

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Referendum YES-supporters will meet Tuesday evening at Syntagma Square outside the Greek Parliament, after NO-supporters organized a huge protest on Monday evening. YES-supporters are backed by opposition parties like New Democracy and a lot of mainstream media journalists. And not only! Some Greeks had a very unpleasant experience Tuesday morning …

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Flour, sugar, pasta, rice, milk and canned tomatoes, food items that do not expire soon are been hastily removed from the super-market selves and land into the housewife’s basket. “There was quite some queue at the cash register and people had their baskets full of pasta, sugar and flour,” a …

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“Finally, he did something! I don’t know if it is good or bad, I cannot think of the consequences right now, but Tsipras finally did something,” Nikos tells me Saturday afternoon, a couple of hours after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced a Referendum on creditors’ proposals. I asked around …

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Hit by an unprecedented crisis, Cyprus Popular Bank (Laiki) announced on Thursday night, it imposes a daily cap of 260 euro per customer for withdrawals from ATM. This restrictions aims to facilitate the bank to come up with customers’ demands, it was said. Thousands of CPB queued at ATMs on …

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