Number of cash machines in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019, by operator
withdrawals.
The rise of digital and contactless payments in the United Kingdom and Europe has seen the need for physical cash machines fall in recent years. Between June and December of 2019, almost 1.7 thousand ATM’s closed in the UK. High street banking giants such as Natwest and Barclays closed approximately 400 each between December 2017 and December 2019. This decline is likely in response to the increase of cashless payments and the drop in