Central Pacific Bank is trying hard to appeal to young residents of Hawaii as well as the mainland U.S. and Japan. It's positioning its new digital checking account as a lifestyle brand as much as a financial product.

Citing customers’ increased adoption of digital services over the past two years, banks are shrinking their physical presence, while also renovating the locations they keep — but credit unions are bucking the trend.

Liberty Bank and Texas Capital Bank are among those trying to attract new online-only customers while experimenting with technologies to benefit the institutions overall.

Five Star Bank, which is based in a rural part of New York state, has embraced digital lending, banking-as-a-service, real-time payments, bitcoin and more. “Those that don’t innovate don’t survive,” says Chief Administrative Officer Sean Willett.

Russia reverberations, a rebranding, a resignation and more in banking news this week.

The New York bank recently converted 3 million GM Rewards cardholders to its Marcus app, the next phase of its plans to offer more banking services in unexpected places.

The bank’s unified digital plans include personalization and a customized mobile dashboard encompassing all the business a customer does with BofA.

With its $1.1 billion deal for Technisys, the onetime student-loan refinancer adds a banking-core software arm as it pushes beyond deposits and lending.

The tax preparer has a well-recognized brand and wide reach, but needs tech help for its neobank.

Starling Bank Ltd. is weighing plans for a fresh funding round that could value the U.K. challenger at around 2.5 billion pounds ($3.4 billion), according to people familiar with the matter.