Austria boosts rural access to cash with 120 new ATMs

- By Levente Koroes
- 08 Jul 2025

The National Bank of Austria is installing automated teller machines (ATMs) for the country’s most remote communities.

In an effort to continue enabling cash access, the central bank is introducing 120 new ATMs for municipalities that do not already have dispensers.

At the opening ceremony of the first of the ATMs, in Obritzberg-Rust on July 1, Robert Holzmann, the central bank’s governor, said cash was “the most popular means of payment in Austria – especially because it combines many advantages”

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