ATS are automated teller safes that belong to private networks of institutions and ATMs are automated teller machines that belong to shared networks (like the Multibanco network).

Access to the ATS network is restricted to customers of the institution that owns the ATM, my means of a card issued by that institution or, in the case of some institutions and some ATMs, through a bank book.

ATMs are accessed by means of a payment card of a brand accepted by the terminal (Multibanco, American Express, Maestro, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron, among others), issued by any entity duly authorised to do so.

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