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Banks and building societies in the UK have closed one in five branches in the last ten years despite research showing that the majority of customers still prefer to do their banking at a branch.
24 February 2006
Barclays Bank is dispensing with the US acronym ATM and other user-unfriendly language and practices as part of a major revamp of 1500 of its UK branches.
03 February 2006
South Africa's First National Bank (FNB) is implementing Finantix's J2EE component-based technology to revamp its network of 600 branches.
09 January 2006
Dutch private and commercial bank Van Lanschot is rolling out CRM technology from California-based Siebel Systems to 700 staff across its branch network.
04 January 2006
Around a third of UK customers want financial firms to deliver text and e-mail-based mobile banking services so they can access account information on the move, according to research published by The Henley Centre and commissioned by BT.
15 December 2005
The UK's Alliance & Leicester has opened the first of its new concept branches, part of a direct banking strategy it is implementing in a bid to cut costs.
20 October 2005
JPMorgan Chase has contracted with Verifone for the supply of the vendor's PIN-based validation terminals, which it will use to verify customers at its branch counters.
11 October 2005
Over half of UK consumers still visit a bank branch each month, according to a study from Forrester Research, which also shows that ATM and Web banking growth has slowed in the past year.
20 September 2005
Barclays Bank has hired Washington Mutual veteran Deanna Oppenheimer to help with the revamp of its retail banking services in the UK.
30 August 2005
Financial services union Amicus has slammed National Australia Bank's (NAB) plans to close 31 Clydesdale and Yorkshire bank branches in the UK.
18 August 2005
Swiss investment banking group UBS has signed a four year contract, reportedly worth around $50 million, with Dell for the supply and ongoing maintenance of over 30,000 customised desktop and notebooks.
16 August 2005
Indovina Bank, a joint venture between Industrial and Commerical Bank of Vietnam and Cathay United Bank, is deploying i-flex solutions' core banking platform, Flexcube, across its Vietnamese branches.
India's state-run Canara Bank has awarded a branch automation contract, worth Rs2.15bn ($49.4m), to a joint tender from IBM and i-flex solutions.
05 August 2005
Barclays Bank has awarded IT services firm Getronics a contract, worth EUR8m, to upgrade counter technology across its 17,000 branches in the UK.
04 July 2005
The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi is to introduce broadband video conferencing between customers and staff through a network of 'Telebank' terminals at branches.
24 June 2005
Australian banking group Westpac has awarded a five year facilities management contract, worth EUR92 million, to a 50:50 joint venture firm established by France's Sodexho Alliance and UK-based Mowlem.
ABN Amro is to open 100 new 'financial centres' this year in an effort to reposition the high street bank branch as an advisory location.
13 June 2005
Nordic IT services group EDB Business Partner has signed an agreement to acquire BanqIT Business Applications, a Swedish provider of branch automation technology, for NKr50 million in cash.
12 May 2005
National Australia Bank is to shed more than 10% of its workforce, cutting around 4200 positions globally, under a sweeping cost-cutting programme that involves back office redundancies in Australia and branch closures in the UK.
11 May 2005
Spanish savings bank Caixa Galicia has signed a contract with Cisco Systems and BT for the provision of a secure IP-based voice and data network.
13 April 2005
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