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Company update/Branch banking
Westpac will tomorrow launch its third Connect Now hub at Epping in Sydney to further strengthen its commitment to the Australian SME sector.
25 March 2015
News/Branch banking
The co-founder of a Nasdaq-listed payments processor and a former legal advisor for American Express - Tom DeLuca is now focused on his latest venture, AMP Credit Technologies, a platform for banks and lenders to provide short-term unsecured small business loans.
24 March 2015
Banco Sabadell is making its first play for a European business outside of its home territory as Lloyds agrees to sell 50% of TSB to the Spanish bank.
20 March 2015
Australia's Westpac is preparing to pump $40 million over the next two years into a tech-heavy refresh of its rural branches.
Turkey's Akbank is experimenting with NCR's Interactive Teller video banking technology in branches and at a shopping mall.
17 March 2015
Nearly three quarters of Americans would rather apply for a checking account digitally than at a bank branch, according to a survey from Javelin Strategy & Research.
06 March 2015
While other banks are closing branches, the UK's TSB has launched a staunch defence of the branch network, making its high street presence front and centre of its proposition to attract more customers from competitor banks.
26 February 2015
With customer flocking to its mobile app, JPMorgan Chase is planning to close around 300 branches by the end of next year.
24 February 2015
As chief information officer at Canadian direct bank Tangerine, Charaka Kithulegoda is at the forefront of the drive to take financial services mobile. He talks to Finextra about how technology is changing the banking landscape.
23 February 2015
Despite the rise of online and mobile banking, there has been only a modest decline in the number of branches in the US over the last few years, according to research from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
20 February 2015
Polish mid-size lender Idea Bank is to open a new bank branch staffed by trained baristas as it bids to entice small business owners away from local coffee shops with the aroma of freshly-brewed beverages, free office work space and bookable conference rooms.
16 February 2015
Lloyds Banking Group is introducing a new service for customers to upload photos of identification documents for online account opening without the need to visit a bank branch.
11 February 2015
Barclays is to equip its roving army of Community Bankers with iPads capable of performing all banking operations previously confined to bricks and mortar branches.
09 February 2015
Banco Santander intends to use a combination of old-school bank branches and a $3 billion global IT budget to beat off competition from cash rich technology companies intent on invading its territory.
03 February 2015
UK banks are experiencing faster growth rates for digital services by customers in the 70s and 80s, according to the latest data from the British Bankers Association.
26 January 2015
Barclays is launching an online and in-branch 'Code Playground' to help families of all ages acquire digital skills and knowledge.
16 January 2015
Already facing competition from online and mobile channels, bank branch staff in Japan are about to come up against a new threat: mini humanoid robots.
13 January 2015
On the day it outlined plans to cut thousands of jobs, Standard Chartered has revealed that one employee definitely on his way out is CIO and group head of technology Jan Verplancke.
08 January 2015
Boubyan Bank has opened a mini-branch at Kuwait International Airport that uses NCR video technology to let customers talk to remote tellers.
15 December 2014
Social enterprises, entrepreneurs and community groups will be offered free space in a move by Barclays to encourage local enterprise, continuing its support for entrepreneurs.
08 December 2014
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