Cash and Dash

Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking uses the invention and development of the automated teller machine (ATM) to explain the birth and evolution of digital banking, from the 1960s to present day. It tackles head on the drivers of long-term innovation in retail banking with emphasis on the payment system.Using a novel approach to better understanding the industrial organization of financial markets, Cash and
Dash contributes to a broader discussion around innovation and labour-saving devices. It explores attitudes to the patent system, formation of standards, organizational politics, the interaction between regulation and
strategy, trust and domestication, maintenance versus disruption, and the huge undertakings needed to develop online real-time banking to customers.