Branch banking

Five questions for U.S. Bancorp’s new head of consumer banking

09/29/17

Tim Welsh has spent his first two months on the job thinking about how to make U.S. Bank as central to consumers’ lives as Amazon, develop new personal financial management services, and expand into new cities.

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Branch transformation is a 'journey' at Bank of the West

09/25/17

The job descriptions of Bank of the West's branch employees are about to change substantially, so each of them is getting a 'passport' as a way to record the journey ahead.

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The Women to Watch: No. 19, TD's Jane Russell

09/25/17

In the newly created role, Jane Russell manages TD’s call centers, ATMs and digital operations, and directs all operations within its 1,250 U.S. branches

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Why are more people trying to rob banks?

09/19/17

Armed heists are becoming less common, but the overall number of robbery attempts has ticked back up in recent years. The opioid epidemic is a likely reason, according to an industry expert.

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It's messy: What happens after safe deposit boxes get flooded

09/14/17

Bankers in Florida and Texas are dusting off their disaster-recovery playbooks, which focus on retrieving customers' valuables, ensuring employee safety and minimizing the bank's own legal exposure.

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Wells internal review may unearth more problems: CEO Sloan

09/12/17

Tim Sloan told investors Tuesday that Wells could uncover more examples of financial harm to its customers as part of its ongoing review of its sales practices.

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A year later, Wells still struggling to repair tattered reputation

09/07/17

One year after the San Francisco megabank paid $190 million in fines and restitution after it opened millions of unauthorized accounts, Wells remains mired in scandal. Why hasn't the firm been able to recover?

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A path forward for tellers as branch visits decline

09/05/17

The days of having an employee who happily works at the drive-through window for 30 years are over. So what’s a bank to do about its branch staff now? Bank of Tennessee has some ideas that it expects will appeal to millennials.

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Inside Mary Mack’s plan to turnaround Wells’ branches

08/31/17

The goal, according to Wells Fargo's head of community banking, is to focus on how customers are treated rather than how many products they buy as well as create a consistent approach to the megabank's sprawling branch network.

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How Gulf Coast banks got back on their feet after Katrina

08/30/17

Nearly all branches in storm-affected areas were still closed a week after New Orleans' levees broke, but regulators and bankers went to work opening new emergency branches and taking other steps to get institutions operating again.

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