{"id":71094,"date":"2025-04-16T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/tuvalu-first-atm-cash-machine-banking"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:10:56","slug":"tuvalu-marks-momentous-occasion-with-unveiling-of-its-first-atms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71094","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu marks \u2018momentous occasion\u2019 with unveiling of its first ATMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All banking in the Pacific nation used to be done in cash but that is about to change on the main island of Funafuti<\/p>\n<p>Tuvalu, one of the world\u2019s most remote nations, has unveiled its first ever ATMs, at the headquarters of the National Bank of Tuvalu in the village of Vaiaku on Funafuti, the country\u2019s main island.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s ceremony marked a historic shift for the island nation of 12,000 people, which has never before had access to electronic banking. Attended by prime minister Feleti Teo, the governor general, traditional leaders, members of parliament and representatives from the diplomatic and business sectors, the event celebrated a long-anticipated move toward financial modernisation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/tuvalu-first-atm-cash-machine-banking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All banking in the Pacific nation used to be done in cash but that is about to change on the main island of FunafutiTuvalu, one of the world\u2019s most remote nations, has unveiled its first ever ATMs, at the headquarters of the National Bank of Tuvalu in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4700,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,291,874,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-banking","category-pacific-islands","category-tuvalu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71094\/revisions\/71095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}