Good morning...I'm leaving for Italy on Thursday and had a question that just popped into my head.

Here in the U.S., my bank, Wells Fargo (this thread is not intended to be a referendum on Wells Fargo) recently (last 6-9 months) added functionality that allows one to use an ATM machine without an actual ATM card being present. In my case, my ATM (debit) card is added to ApplePay on my iPhone. When I use one of these ATM's, I hold my phone up to the reader, select the proper card and authorize with my thumbprint (this also works with an Apple watch). Once the authorization is complete the machine asks for my PIN number and we proceed with an otherwise normal ATM transaction.

Has anyone seen or used this type of functionality at ATM's in Italy?

Thanks in advance for any response.

Hi there

We were just in Rome and live in London. I have never seen anything like this in Europe. We can use our cards to tap instead of entering a PIN in stores and restaurants (and Applepay is quite common in London) but I have never seen an ATM that allows you to tap instead of entering the card and PIN. ATMs are not set up with readers like stores are.

My bank (Intesa) offers something similar . But I don't think it's available to tourists. Not that I use it either.

https://www.intesasanpaolo.com/it/pe...-cardless.html

Nope, never seen it, but since it takes about 10 seconds to use an ATM in Italy, I wouldn't worry about it.