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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
Retail giant Marks & Spencer will take on Britain's high street banks this summer with the launch of a current account with no monthly fee.
07 March 2014
JPMorgan Chase has set out plans to cut around 8000 jobs this year as it shrinks branches and pushes self-service and the use of digital channels.
26 February 2014
UniCredit has opened a tech-packed flagship branch in Milan, the first stage in a three year, 1000 branch-strong network overhaul.
21 February 2014
First National Bank of South Africa is applying motion-sensor technology at its flagship cashless and paperless bank branch in Cape Town to attract the attention of passers-by and encourage interaction with the screen.
19 February 2014
A Barclays employee acted as an inside man for a criminal gang which attached a piece of hardware to a computer at the branch where he worked and used it to steal £1.25 million, a court has heard.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has credited investment in technology as a major factor in its impressive 14% rise in first half profits.
12 February 2014
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