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News/retail
Lloyds Banking Group has introduced a dedicated phone line for customers over the age of 70 and NHS workers as it deals with a spike in calls from concerned customers.
01 April 2020
Italy's UniCredit is to shut down 70% of its branch network as staff succumb to the Coronavirus outbreak sweeping the country.
25 March 2020
News/covid-19
Nationwide Building Society has become the first UK lender to formally adjust its branch opening hours and close outlets in response to the Coronavirus.
24 March 2020
JPMorgan Chase is to give front-line employees staffing its call centres and branches a $1000 bonus for keeping the business running during the Coronavirus pandemic.
23 March 2020
More US banks are following the lead of JPMorgan Chase in restricting access to branch-based services as social distancing measures during the virus outbreak come into force.
20 March 2020
JPMorgan Chase is pulling the shutters down on 1000 branches in response to the escalating Coronavirus pandemic.
19 March 2020
Canada's six biggest banks are closing some branches and reducing operating hours at others in an effort to promote social distancing and control the spread of Covid-19.
Nationwide Building Society is to open some of its branches an hour early to provide dedicated services to elderly and vulnerable customers ahead of the general public.
17 March 2020
News/identity
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is using AI and NFC technology to let clients digitally verify their identities when their open accounts in branch.
16 March 2020
News/Branch banking
Nationwide Building Society has put back the launch of its business account to later in the year as it continues testing of its mobile app and builds an Open Banking-powered switching tool.
03 March 2020
Irish bank AIB has agreed to sell its network of more than 500 non-branch ATMs to cash management giant Brink's. Financial terms were not disclosed.
28 February 2020
Lloyds Banking Group is to lay off 780 full time staff across its branch network in the latest round of job losses at the bank.
26 February 2020
HSBC will close another 27 UK branches this year in response to a dramatic fall off in customer visits in the face of digital alternatives.
25 February 2020
DBS has evacuated around 300 staff from its office at the Marina Bay Financial Centre in Singapore after it was confirmed that an employee has been infected with the coronavirus.
13 February 2020
UniCredit has confirmed plans to lose 450 branches and cut 6000 jobs in Italy over the next three years.
11 February 2020
The UK’s major banks have made hundreds of millions of pounds from cash machine cuts and bank branch closures in the last two years, while fees paid by consumers to access their own cash have soared, new research from Which? reveals.
07 February 2020
Lloyds Banking Group will close another 56 branches across the UK later this year, resulting in the loss of around 80 jobs.
29 January 2020
United Overseas Bank (UOB) has teamed up with Singapore Polytechnic (SP) to let students design their own branch concept.
24 January 2020
News/inclusion
HSBC is working with charities in the UK to help homeless people who do not have fixed addresses or photo IDs to open bank accounts, which can be managed in branches or online.
13 December 2019
Italy's UniCredit says it will cut 8000 jobs and close 500 branches over the next three years as part of a programme to boost shareholder value.
04 December 2019
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