The California bank will let customers of a neobank called BayaniPay Wallet use its branches.

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.