Branch management

Dear bank execs: Your employees aren't psychic

11/01/17

Focus on ensuring your teams know why you make changes, and they will be far more likely to make those changes work for you.

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Dozens of bank branches forced to close in fire-ravaged northern California

10/11/17

As conditions worsened on Wednesday, bankers said that their employees’ safety is their top priority.

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Lifetime Achievement: TD Bank’s Linda Verba

10/04/17

Verba's two-decade career at one of the East Coast's fastest-growing banks began with an old-fashioned letter to a local bank when she was in her late 40s and an epiphany about work-life balance.

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When your teller is also your digital banker

09/21/17

Umpqua Bank is testing a system that would make text-chat, video and voice banking more personable by staffing them with branch workers during their down time.

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Equifax hack claims two executives; Cagney out at SoFi

09/18/17

The chief information officer and top security officer are retiring in the wake of the massive data hack; Mike Cagney is leaving the student loan lender.

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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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‘All your stuff is compromised’: Comments of week

09/07/17

Readers opine on Square’s applying for an industrial loan company charter, the Federal Reserve’s role in faster payments, assumptions about operational security, and more.

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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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No more Post-its: How one bank said goodbye to passwords

08/09/17

West Milton State Bank uses biometrics for employees to log into workstations, saying it is quicker and more secure than passwords.

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