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Oct 18, 2013 | 1:59 am

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gum

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Originally Posted by GiantVulture

Thanks for the reply, gum. I also found this article after digging some more. Hopefully card issuers here will get it together sooner rather than later.

Also, I read that getting a cash withdrawal PIN actually ends up enabling normal Chip-and-PIN transactions if the terminal is online. Can you confirm that's the case?

Sorry, GiantVulture, I can't confirm this.

At the moment I don't use the cash withdrawal service of Amex on an ATM for a very simple reason: For the German Amex Cards the amount I get on the ATM is not booked on the monthly statement.

It is nearly immediately withdrawn from my current account within two or three days. So I use some type of "SparCard" product of a German bank for cash withdrawals at "non-German" ATMs.

The Banks started to "reeducate" the customers away from "paper" savings book to SparCards. And then included the service of up to 10 international ATM transactions for a reduced fee. So many people got this appetizer which remains of one of the USPs of SparCards.

But I can't imagine that one single ATM transaction starts the full workflow of chaging from signature to PIN.

Just curious about to know: What's so weird with signing the bills, GiantVulture?

Last edited by gum; Oct 18, 2013 at 2:06 am

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