automatic-teller machine use has dropped“Since COVID, volumes at ATMs have declined by about 10%-20%,” Brinks, the armored-car company whose clients include banks,But that’s not what investors in Paramount Management Group, a Lancaster automatic-teller machine operator founded and run since 2012 by entrepreneur Daryl Heller, were told in marketing materials promoting the company.
But the number of Paramount ATMs was fewer than 10,000, Paramount vice president Leigh Danca testified Dec. 6 in a hearing before Lancaster County Common Pleas Court Judge Leonard G. Brown III. The judge ordered Paramount to pay $50,000 a day, starting Dec. 7, until it identifies all its ATMs to investors; and a total of $100,000 a day starting Dec. 14 if the company also fails to turn over transaction reports and other records to investors.
“In the future you will see many new uses for ATMs,” including marketing, foreign-funds transfer and crypto investment, the promotion also said. Paramount even promised to compensate investors if ATM use fell below its ambitious targets. The turnpike collected $510,000 as its cut of Paramount’s ATM business in fiscal 2018, according to data provided by Don Klingensmith, assistant chief financial officer for procurement at the turnpike commission.