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At a time when customers are rapidly switching to digital banking, scores of branches are closing. But many institutions — mindful that brick-and-mortar locations remain a critical sales channel — are also experimenting with physical layouts that are focused on technology and generally smaller than traditional branches. In some cases, they have even done away with employees. Here is a look at some of the designs that banks have built as they seek to fuse the physical with the digital.

Starbucks customers will soon be able to send Starbucks gifts to other iOS device users via Apple Inc.’s iMessage platform with Apple Pay.

Accenture has agreed to acquire First Annapolis Consulting in an effort to add payments expertise in several international markets.

Lee Butke of Corporate One FCU and Robert Burrow of Bayer Heritage FCU are among the appointees to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council.

Texas Trust CU's latest financial education effort has a simple goal: If you can manage an unmanned aerial drone, you should be able to manage your finances.

Card issuers are sounding the alarm about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final prepaid rule, claiming that without fixes the agency has opened the door to potential fraud on unregistered cards.

New hires, promotions, board elections and more credit union officials in the news.

B of A's Cathy Bessant and Michelle Moore have a few suggestions for women who want to advance and RBC's Janice Fukakusa sets a new pay benchmark for female executives. Plus, Bank of the West's Nandita Bakhshi and Citi's Yolande Piazza.

NBT Bancorp has spent the last few years introducing digital banking features intended to reach a broad audience.

None of the initial steps banks can take to modernize business lending are cutting-edge innovation ideas, but they can still improve the borrowing experience, giving businesses fewer reasons to look elsewhere.