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News/Branch banking
Barclays Bank has appointed supermarket design expert Helen Dodd to revamp its branch network.
02 November 2006
The State Bank of India (SBI) has signed a EUR30 million contract with Germany's Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) for the supply and maintenance of 1700 bank note processing systems.
18 October 2006
UK banking group Alliance and Leicester (A&L) has awarded a contract to overhaul its legacy core retail and commercial banking systems to technology consultancy Accenture. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
02 October 2006
Lack of investment in wireless and Internet-based technologies could de-rail UK bank branch modernisation plans, says BT, which has surveyed banking executives about their high street investment strategies.
27 September 2006
JPMorgan Chase has passed a significant milestone in its ongoing Bank One technology integration effort with the conversion of New York Tri-state accounts to a unified national network linking 2660 branches in 17 states.
21 September 2006
India's Yes Bank has teamed with Intel to roll out wireless Internet technology across its national retail branch network.
15 September 2006
British banking group HSBC is reporting surging demand for its newly launched Internet and telephone-based commercial bank account, BusinessDirect, as more businesses shy away from expensive branch-based services.
13 September 2006
US-based Diebold is releasing a biometric fingerprint scanning system designed to enable banks to authenticate the identity of customers at the branch counter.
07 September 2006
Ingenico UK and US-based Nexus Software have developed a Chip and PIN-basesd authentication system for use in retail bank branch environments.
29 August 2006
British banking group HSBC is extending its commercial banking network in the UK and has launched the first of 80 business centres it plans to open in the next 18 months.
25 August 2006
Italian banking group Banca Marche has awarded IBM a five year contract to overhaul and automate its retail branch network.
06 July 2006
Barclays is cutting 1200 back office jobs over the next 18 months as part of a restructuring of its retail banking operations in the UK.
28 June 2006
The UK's Barclays Bank is preparing to overhaul its retail banking operations under plans which would entail shuttering processing centres and shifting more jobs offshore, according to an unsourced report in the Financial Times.
12 June 2006
Singapore-based fintech vendor System Access says Vietnam International Bank (VIB) has implemented its flagship core banking platform, Symbols.
08 June 2006
Citigroup says its new Internet savings account has attracted $3 billion in deposits since its launch in March, with two thirds of that "new money" to the institution, the equivalent of opening 23 new branches.
02 June 2006
High street bank Abbey is planning to open 100 new branches over the next ten years, according to British newspaper The Times.
15 May 2006
Citibank says a computer glitch at its branches in Japan has caused more than a quarter of a million incorrect transactions over the past week.
10 May 2006
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is renegotiating its IT outsourcing contract with EDS as it looks to implement a new business plan that will see it redirect up to $200 million of annual spending to its capital expenditure budget.
31 March 2006
Four out of five retail banks project annual growth of more than five percent over the next few years, according to research by Accenture, and are actively investing in new technology to strengthen their cross-selling capabilities.
13 March 2006
UK banking group HBOS is to open 100 new Halifax branches over the course of the next five years in a move that will create 1500 new jobs.
01 March 2006
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