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Oxigen Converting Its Point of Sale in Mini ATM’s To Help Customers To Deposit Their Money
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Oxigen Converting Its Point of Sale in Mini ATM’s To Help Customers To Deposit Their Money

Digital payments solution provider Oxigen Services is in the process of upgrading its point of sales (PoS) devices into micro ATMs to help customers in the present situation due to ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. "Micro ATM is a point of sales device which we have developed into a full featured banking access device and payment transaction device. We want to deploy these terminals in rural areas and in urban areas at all kirana and retail stores across India," Pramod Saxena, Founder Chairman & MD, Oxigen Services told PTI in an interaction. "We already have 2 lakh retail touch points, of these 60,000 stores have these PoS terminals but they are not micro ATMs, so we have started upgrading these terminals into micro ATMs now." He said Oxigen Services plans to deploy 2,000 mic...
Demonetisation Effect: SBI Collects Rs 1,14,139 Cr Deposits in Last 7 Days
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Demonetisation Effect: SBI Collects Rs 1,14,139 Cr Deposits in Last 7 Days

State Bank of India today said it collected Rs 1,14,139 crore in deposits in last seven days after the government announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. The bank saw 240.90 lakh cash deposit transactions between November 10 and November 16 up to 7 PM, SBI said in a statement here today. The government announced to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes on November 8. Banks were opened for transactions from November 10 but were closed on November 14 on account of Gurunanak Jayant in major parts of the country. The country's largest lender exchanged Rs 5,776 crore of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes since November 10. It said there were 151.93 lakh cash withdrawal transactions amounting to Rs 18,665 crore in the last seven days. People are allowed to exchange Rs 4,500 wor...