Customers can order the ATM through smartphone.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Poland’s Idea Bank has managed to marry its banking services with the ride-hailing culture introduced by companies such as Uber.
The bank announced it has assembled a veritable armada of cars with ATMs bolted to them that can be ordered by its customers via smartphone.
According to Fast Company, the service will accept deposits sans any sort of surcharge, wherever a customer may be, day or night.
The initiative, Mobile Wplatomat, is geared primarily toward business owners who have large quantities of cash to deposit at the end of the business day, and who would presumably rather not carry that much cash to an ATM or bank branch, reported the Verge.
The service is slated to run on the BMW i3 platform. The Verge noted that since the service is limited to Warsaw, where Idea Bank is based, the i3 serves as a shrewd choice — it will most likely never travel past its electric range, which means no gasoline and no emissions.