Branch banking

More and more FIs are adding videoconferencing at branches, but consumers might prefer to video-chat from their phones. Unlike with mobile banking, shirts and pants will likely be required.

Banks are adding videoconferencing at branches, but consumers might prefer to video-chat from their phones. Unlike with mobile banking, shirts and pants will likely be required.

The branch manager was terminated after she reported conduct by at least three private bankers working under her that she believed to be bank, wire and mail fraud.

The Portland, Ore., company outlined a plan to boost its return on tangible common equity to between 13-15% by 2020. More details will be provided by fall, executives said.

Customer services are between two human beings. The quality of their exchange is more important than the resolution.

The CEO of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a top matchmaker for bank mergers, explains why large banks will soon return to dealmaking after a long absence, the case for starting new banks and the enduring value of branches.

The Pittsburgh bank is developing new products, simplifying old ones and modernizing its workplace based on detailed feedback from consumers, small businesses and employees in an attempt to create a bank they all like better.

The phony-sales scandal forced a reckoning over an organizational structure that had long encouraged autonomy for the bank’s various business units.

Energy sensors will let JPMorgan Chase master-control everything from office temperatures to sprinkler systems in an attempt to preserve the scale of its branch network but lower the costs.

Community banks are less likely to close branch locations than their larger counterparts. But those branches should mix technology with the homespun local flavor customers have come to expect.