UK bank Abbey National has deployed Level Four's EMV FastTrack tool to assist the migration of its 3000-strong national network of automated teller machines (ATMs) to compliance with EMV smart card standards.
EMV FastTrack enables the creation of EMV compatible ATM downloads and full end-to-end transaction testing directly from the chip card, through the ATM and up to the host system.
Staff can view downloads as they would appear on a real ATM and design, configure and test new ATM content from any PC on the network, allowing the bank to fully automate the testing process.
Andy Sampson, manager of ATM systems at the bank, says: "Level Four has helped us to understand the complexity of EMV compliance and the potential impact this could have on our business if we are not fully prepared. One of our primary goals is to ensure that we do not inconvenience our customers during the transition."
Martin Macmillan, CEO, Level Four, adds: "We have empowered Abbey National to bring ATM application development in-house, reducing its timescales and costs and ensuring that its customers are not compromised."
The UK bank has already fitted chip card readers to its 3000 cash machines and is in the final stages of upgrading its S2-supplied card processing system to read data from the new batch of smart cards which will be issued to customers from the beginning of next year.