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Europe’s Big Banks to Slash 2,500 Branches as Clients Go Online

  • Deutsche Bank, Sabadell unit TSB, among recent announcements
  • Pandemic is accelerating usage of online retail banking
Pandemic Cuts

European banks are cutting branches like never before as the pandemic pushes clients away from bricks-and-mortar.

Spanish lender Banco de Sabadell SA’s U.K. TSB unit said this week it will close more than a third of its branches, just a week after Deutsche Bank AG announced it will shutter a fifth of its network. Sweden’s Handelsbanken AB recently presented plan to slash the number of its branches by almost half.