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As customers increasingly carry out basic transactions online, Barclays is ditching the old-fashioned branch cashier, retraining staff as 'community bankers'.
11 July 2014
Mobile and internet banking is now being used for transactions worth nearly £1 billion a day in the UK, hastening the decline of the traditional bank branch, according to new data from the British Bankers Association.
08 July 2014
State Bank of India (SBI) has opened six digital branches as part of a campaign to attract young customers who have grown up in the internet and mobile era.
01 July 2014
The Royal Bank of Scotland is to spend over £1 billion over the next three years to rebuild its retail banking business, with investment in digital channels as the primary focus.
27 June 2014
Tesco Bank has finally launched its first current account, promising to take on the high street giants with transparent fees and modern technology.
10 June 2014
Deutsche Bank is running a 'Future Banking International Design Competition' seeking smart ideas, applications, gadgets, products or services that can inspire customers, whether in the branch or transacting on the Web.
05 June 2014
Nearly four in 10 young North Americans would be happy to consider switching to a purely digital bank that has no branch network, a survey from Accenture shows.
27 May 2014
Bank of America is to expand its use of videoconferencing to 500 branches across the US, enabling customers to remotely interact with small business bankers, mortgage specialists and financial advisors.
23 May 2014
Australian bank ANZ has opened a tech-packed wealth management centre in Sydney, with a mobile app set to follow.
20 May 2014
Far from killing off traditional branches, digital technology could breathe new life into them, Nationwide chief executive Graham Beale has told Finextra.
19 May 2014
Australia's St George Bank has begun trialling iBeacon technology in branches, pinging information to customers' iPhones when they enter the building.
15 May 2014
SunTrust Banks has opened an 'innovation branch' in Atlanta where it will test new technology such as automated safety deposit boxes.
12 May 2014
There's more than one way to mobile bank. RBS has spent £600,000 on five new vans kitted out with iPads which will travel the UK bringing financial services to remote communities.
28 April 2014
British building society Nationwide has introduced in-branch video links that let customers talk to off-site mortgage consultants.
16 April 2014
An IT glitch at Commonwealth Bank of Australia has left customers unable to use online and mobile banking, ATMs and point-of-sale terminals for several hours.
15 April 2014
South Africa's Absa has launched Payment Pebble, a headphone-jacked mobile point of sale device for small traders, as it refines its operating model to become a fully digital bank.
08 April 2014
RBS is shutting 44 branches across the UK, blaming a 30% fall in in-store transactions over the last few years for its decision.
03 April 2014
The UK is in the midst of a technology-led banking revolution as Brits shun branches in favour of their mobile phones, figures from the British Bankers Association show.
31 March 2014
Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks are to close 28 bank branches and invest £45 million in "improving services" after experiencing a 30% drop in high street footfall over the past three years.
25 March 2014
Members of a criminal gang which attached devices to bank branch computers so that they could remotely control accounts and steal £1.25 million, have been found guilty.
14 March 2014
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