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Some banks have built their entire strategy around being ecofriendly while others dabble in this area. Regardless, being environmentally conscious can help bring in new business.
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GreenChoice Bank in Chicago is the fourteenth failure this year. An investment group seeking to establish an environmentally friendly bank saved the thrift from collapse four years ago, but it fell on hard times again.
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Technology companies are wooing customers away from traditional financial institutions. If banks want to address this threat, they need to rethink their business models and stop chasing profits at all costs.
January 6
First Bank in Wilmington, N.C., opened a new branch in Jacksonville, N.C., earlier this week, that was designed to be environmentally friendly.
"The building is a passive solar design using horizontal sun shades and the deep roof overhang over the
The branch will also have an open layout with free-standing wooden kiosks manned by tellers. "The tellers are to be out on the floor to provide an experience that is more conversational rather than transactional," a spokesperson said via email, which First Bank thinks will aid upselling and relationship building.
In its announcement of the branch, First Bank said that it views the branch as a prototype for future location designs.