Sentence examples for physical branches from inspiring English sources

Already some new banks, such as Atom and Starling, have no physical branches and are focusing on apps.

"Truly digital banks... won't need to sustain a network of physical branches," Jenkins said, adding that they could provide a much more personal service.

Charles Schwab, the brokerage firm, which has call centers and physical branches as well as a Web service, is often held up as a model.

Physical branches at museums in Den Haag and Frankfurt circulated an alternative currency whose notes, designed by the artist Lawrence Weiner, are printed in denominations of hours.

Even if banks were prepared to invest heavily in building physical branches, the country's large (about 60m) and mainly rural population is spread out.

Online-only banks can also work well for students, he notes, because without physical branches to support, they generally have lower fees.

2015 This year, for the first time, more people use mobile banking than those who avail themselves of a physical branch.

"The fact that a bank has a physical branch in the vicinity of a prospect is an enormous advantage and will remain an enormous advantage," Mr. Sterling said.

Lenders applauded two more changes HUD made on Mr. Cisneros's watch: they no longer had to interview most government-insured borrowers face to face or maintain physical branch offices.

We know mobile money can make formal institutions more accessible to remote VSLA communities as transactions costs are lower and there's no need to visit a physical branch.

Industry executives have speculated at length on this kind of outcome, and Mr. Breuer himself has hinted strongly in recent weeks that the rise of electronic banking over the Internet makes it far less important now to serve customers through physical branch offices.