Bucking the back to bricks trend: four banks stay focused on the internet, despite the industry's love affair with the branch

naught ed in on the branch for sales and service, many banks have subsum the internet into normal bank operations--with a discrete character to play but no more. Many, on the other hand not all banks.

Due to the vagaries of in what manner banks have characterized their internet offerings past and near the exact number of internet banks in the U isn't known, notes Christopher Musto, vice-president of research from Watchfire and GomezPro Waltham, Mass. Generally, there are significantly fewer than the numbers that companyed to cyberspace during the internet craze. nevertheless web brands like ING Direct and NetBank, profiled in these pages, not at any time ...