Toomas Hõbemägi
Riho Unt, board member of SEB, told Eesti Päevaleht that SEB is opening a branch office in Priisle shopping centre in September. “Since more and more customers are living near shopping centres it is cost effective to open new branches in malls,” he said.
Unt said that one reason why fewer customers have been visiting bank branches is the rapid development of online banking. “We have more customers in our online bank than visiting us in our branches,” he explained.
Unt said that two thirds of consumer credit contracts issued by SEB are signed online. “Also almost all bank transactions are made through the online bank.”
This week SEB will close its offices in Liivalaia street and Peterburi road in Tallinn as well as one office in Tartu and one in Jüri. At the end of September the bank will close another office in Pärnu and one in Tallinn.
Also Hansabank has closed five branch offices this year. “We have replaced some offices where we have seen fewer customers with Hansa24 automated banking centres where one can make bank transactions 24 hours a day,” says the bank’s press spokesperson.
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