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Metro Bank to review store opening hours and cut 20% of staff

Struggling UK lender Metro Bank is planning to reduce store opening hours and cut 20% of its staff in a bid to slash costs by £50 million per year.

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Deutsche Bank to close 250 Postbank branches

Deutsche Bank will close about 250 of 550 Postbank branches over the next three years as it works to turn the unit into a "mobile-first" provider.

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Nationwide overtakes major banks for branch-based banking

As other banks take the axe to their branch network, Nationwide Building Society's longstanding commitment to the high street means it now has the largest number of branches in the UK.

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Lloyds draws the blinds on more branches

Lloyds Banking Group has revealed 35 new branch closures, drawing a line under the provision of face-to-face services in 155 sites in total by the end of 2023 and 75 in 2024.

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Minister orders review after Bank of Ireland IT glitch

Ireland's minister for finance has called for an investigation into the robustness of banking technology infrastructure after a technical glitch with Bank of Ireland's (BoI) mobile banking app enabled customers to seemingly withdraw free money.

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Lloyds to close more branches

Lloyds Banking Group has revealed 44 new branch closures, drawing a line under the provision of face-to-face services in 155 branches in total by the end of 2023 and 40 in 2024.

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Bank of India opens startup-focused branches

Bank of India has opened three branches dedicated to serving the country's startup companies.

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Virgin Money to axe 30% of branch network

Virgin Money is joining the banking exodus from the high street, closing over 30% of its bank branches with the loss of 260 jobs.

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NatWest to shutter 143 branches in 2023

NatWest Group is to bring the shutters down on a further 36 branches, bringing the running toal for the year to 143, with a further two sites already earmarked for closure in 2024.

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Nationwide pledges not to leave any towns until 2026

Nationwide Building Society has renewed its branch promise to not leave any town or city in which it is based until at least 2026.

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Lloyds and NatWest close more branches

Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest are, between them, closing another 80 branches across the UK this year.

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Barclays Bank to trim more branches

Barclays Bank continues its stealthy approach to slimming down its branch network, announcing the closure of 14 more outlets in addition to the 55 branches already earmarked for closure this year.

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TSB pilots banking pods

TSB has partnered with ATM provider Note Machine to open banking pods to replace local branch services that are due to close in Spring and also to venture into new areas where the bank has yet to establish a presence.

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Barclays replaces branches with semi-permanent banking pods

Barclays is adapting its physical footprint in response to declining customer branch usage, opening semi-permanant banking pods in locations with high footfall, including shopping centres and retail parks.

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UK to roll out more shared banking hubs

Nine new shared banking hubs are to be opened across the UK as the country's high street lenders push ahead with further branch closure programmes.

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UK bank branch closures accelerate as NatWest drops the axe

NaWest is to shutter a further 23 branches, adding to a wave of closures announced by the UK big banks in the first month of the year.

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Cashless Denmark records a year without bank robberies

Denmark's transition away from cash has seen the country record its first ever year in which it experienced zero bank robberies.

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OneBanx raises £1.27 million on Crowdcube

Shared bank branch operator OneBanx has closed on a £1.27 million raise on Crowdcube.

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Bank of Ireland to invest €11.5 million in branch network

After shuttering a third of its high street outlets last year, Bank of Ireland plans to invest €11.5m million across its remaining nationwide branch network in 2023.

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HSBC to shut 114 more branches next year; offers free tablets to customers impacted

HSBC is to shutter 114 bank branches in the UK next year, as footfall on the high street declines further in the wake of the Covid pandemic.