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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ken Sweet

Coffee, sculptures and financial advice. Banks try to make new branches less intimidating

AP

It’s like Sephora or Starbucks now offered a checking account.

After years of closing or mostly neglecting physical bank branches across the U.S., the nation’s largest banks are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on refurbishing old locations or building new ones, and in the process changing the look, feel and purpose of the local bank branch.

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