AmBank (M) Bhd (AmBank) has bagged the award for Enterprise Security Excellence in the SHARE/GUIDE Association (M) (SGAM) ICT Awards 2010. The award recognised AmBank's commitment to provide secured wireless connectivity that utilised existing wireless signals like 3G, provided by Celcom and DiGi, for its automated teller machines (ATMs).

"AmBank, one of the leading banks in Malaysia, is aggressively following a strategy to improve services by giving wider and easier access to self-service machines such as ATMs and cash deposit machines in off-premise locations," Managing Director of Retail Banking, AmBank Group, Mohamed Azmi Mahmood said in a statement today.

He said the wireless ATM technology was key to the bank's strategy of meeting the above objective and AmBank was the first to roll out the innovative solution.

To date, AmBank has 806 ATMs nationwide of which 400 were installed in 7-Eleven outlets.

Source : thestar.com.my / Bernama