The digital revolution of the last 20 years has impacted on nearly every aspect of our daily lives.
The rapid-fire growth of online banking, for example, has led to far fewer of us popping down to the local bank to draw out cash or pay in cheques as we might have done on a regular basis two or three decades ago. As a result of this major loss of footfall, many high street banks have pulled down the shutters for good in recent years.
The consumer group Which? last month reported that 5,355 UK bank and building society branches had closed since January 2015. Data from UK cash machine network, LINK, which tracks any planned branch closures across the the country, also recently reported there were around 266 more closures planned for this year.
