Karl Schnuerch

Over four years, we counted roughly 745,000 bank branches and ATMs across the planet — a number split almost evenly between physical bank offices and cash machines. That single figure is the backbone of everything published on this site, and it is the result of slow, manual work that started during a pandemic. This is the story of where that global bank and ATM directory came from, how it was built, and — just as importantly — what it cannot tell you. The figures here come from gf6.com's own four-year curated directory, compiled by hand and enriched from public registries, not from a single official source.