Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/10/21
By: Tsai Yi-chu and Frances Huang
Taipei, Oct. 21 (CNA) The Taipei and Kaohsiung subway systems will have talking automated teller 
machines (ATMs) installed at all of their stations by next year to serve the visually impaired, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) said Friday.
Taiwan’s top financial regulator said banks in Taiwan will complete the installation of the machines, which use audible commands so they can be operated without assistance by the visually impaired, in all 154 stations of the two systems by May 2017.
One ATM will be installed at each station.
Currently, Cathay United Bank (國泰世華) is in charge of installing ATMs in the Taipei Metro, while Union Bank of Taiwan (聯邦銀行) is responsible for putting in ATMs in the Kaohsiung Metro.
As of the end of June, there were 260 talking ATMs available in all of Taiwan regardless of venue, including some in Taipei subway stations, but none had yet been installed in the Kaohsiung subway system. [FULL STORY]
