Coronavirus: Digital banking is no longer optional

By Matthew Thomas

April 14, 2020

Digital banks have long talked about the importance of efficient online and mobile banking services at the expense of face-to-face meetings and physical branches; the coronavirus crisis means there is now little argument against this model.

coronavirus_oped_780 — A woman wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks past on a nearly empty street in a snow fall during the first weekend after Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike urged Tokyo residents to stay indoors in a bid to keep the coronavirus disease from spreading, at an shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato - RC2GTF9M8S9X

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