Bankers on a building spree

With the advent of online banking and the growth of stand-alone ATMs, Connecticut bankers just a few years ago were predicting the inevitable decline of the traditional bricks-and-mortar branch. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Since May of 2002, there have been an astonishing 162 new bank branches added in the state, and another 50 new credit union branches, according to analysis by the Hartford Business Journal. Read more here.