E-Trade To Become No. 3 In ATMs.(Company Business and Marketing)

In its first big push to offer financial services in the physical world, E*Trade Group Inc. has signed a deal that would make it the country's third-largest owner of automated teller machines. The market-leading Internet brokerage firm said last month that it plans to acquire Card Capture Services Inc., a closely held ATM deployer in Portland, OR, which owns 8,500 machines in the United States, Canada and Mexico. E*Trade plans to convert many of the terminals to "financial services kiosks" that would give customers access to all E*Trade products, which include brokerage accounts,