ING Bank, one of the most important banks in Romania, will offer its customers from all over the country a very good, very useful change, which comes after it was implemented by BANCA Transilvania, a long time ago. In a notification sent by ING Bank to clients the other day, the bank confirmed that starting from October of this year, it will allow clients from all over Romania to make contactless withdrawals from ATMs.
BANCA Transilvania has been offering this facility for Romanian customers for years, and basically it means that at certain ATMs we can withdraw money without having the card issued by the bank, and ING Bank will offer the same thing. Everything will be possible thanks to the implementation of NFC support in the HomeBank application of ING Bank, including for the interaction with the contactless banknotes that the bank currently has throughout Romania.
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Practically, using a physical card, ING Pay, or the virtual ones that are enrolled in Apple Pay or Google Pay, we will be able to withdraw money from ING Bank ATMs by simply bringing the phone, or the card, to a special area of the ATM. At that moment, the card will be authenticated automatically, we will have access to the account we have at the bank, and we will be able to withdraw the amount of money we need to make our usual purchases.
ING says that we will only be able to withdraw LEI from the contactless ATMs that will offer this functionality, so we will not be able to withdraw euros, for example, but this will not be such a big problem for too many people. Those from BANCA Transilvania had similar limitations imposed on customers when it came to contactless withdrawals from ATMs, and in the case of ING Romania it seems that things will be exactly the same now.
ING Romania says that this new facility will be available starting from October 2022, but the date is not known yet, so we will have to wait and see what kind of new information will come from the bank vis-a- dream of this process.
