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India TV NewsBank ATM Transaction: In a move to put a curb on the increase in fraud in ATM cash withdrawals and ensure its safety, the Reserve Bank of India on Thursday announced new guidelines on ATM transactions. In its bi-monthly “Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies”, the central bank noted that several banks and other regulated entities depend on third-party application service providers for shared services for ATM Switch applications. “A number of commercial banks, urban cooperative banks and other regulated entities are dependent upon third-party application service providers for shared services for ATM Switch applications,” RBI said. The mandatory guidelines would require the service provides to implement several measures to strengthen the process of deployment and changes in application softwares in the ecosystem, continuous surveillance and implementation of controls, the RBI said. “The guidelines would require the implementation of several measures to strengthen the process of deployment and changes in application softwares in the ecosystem; continuous surveillance; implementation of controls on storage, processing and transmission of sensitive data; building capacity for forensic examination; and making the incident response mechanism more robust,” RBI said.