France had just over 42,500 ATMs at the end of 2024, 3.5% that a year earlier.
France lost more than 1,500 ATMs last year, this Thursday said the National Committee for Means of Payments (CNMP), chaired by the Banque de France, without disturbing good access to species. The number of ATMs (DAB) was 42,578 to December 31 of last year, 3.5% less than a year earlier and 15% less than five years ago.
These distributors are spread over approximately 29,500 sites in just over 6,500 municipalities. The study carried out by the Banque de France adds to the DAB “private points” of liquid distribution to DABs, up 3.9% over a year. A total of 28,479 shops (mini -market, baker, tobacco office …) offer customers of a bank partner bank against payment of the same amount by card.
However, this service does not have much to do with the service offered by an automaton: it is only accessible to customers of a single bank and only at the opening schedules of the merchant, not 24 hours a day. The amount of withdrawal can also be limited and depends on the amount available in the merchant’s cash register, sometimes not enough to meet the request.
“Accessibility to species remains (…) at a very high level”
The Consortium Bank Cards (CB) seeks to extend the use of these private points to customers of several banks: a test between the various points of contact of the Postal Bank (excluding DAB) and the “CA relays” (Trade name of the private points of Crédit Agricole) will be launched during 2026, specifies on Thursday at AFP a spokesperson for CB. “The amounts delivered per day will be capped”, of the order of 20 to 100 euros, and “the merchant can only deliver species within the limits of his fund”, tempers the consortium.
“Accessibility to species remains (…) at a very high level,” said the director general of the French banking federation (FBF), Maya Atig, in a declaration transmitted to AFP. The Banque de France, guaranteeing the accessibility of species, is on the same line.
The decline of historic banks on the ground, which is explained by research of cost savings and by the drop in the use of these machines, opened a market to other cash specialists. Absent from this service until 2018, Loomis, Brink’s as well as Euronet now operate 961 DAB on French territory.
To relaunch distributors, three banking groups have teamed up to create DAB Cash Services. They are led to replace in France the Park of Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Crédit Mutuel Federal Alliance (which also owns the CIC), and their number should be multiplied by 15 this year, according to the 2SF joint venture.
The common company To the three banking groups plans to go from around 200 operating cash sites today to 300 at the end of February, more than 1,000 at the end of June and nearly 3,000 sites at the end of 2025.
