It is very important that the blind and the visually impaired should be able to live as independently as possible. They have their own rights to have control over their personal finances. Access to automatic teller machines (ATMs), is an important part of banking services. This paper gives review on different techniques applied to provide ATM services for blind people such as hand gestures, GSM, biometric authentication, security issues etc. Hence the blind people are enabled to use ATM independently.