The Team Bank, leading German consumer credit expert, recently moved into their new HQ in Nuremberg with over 700 employees.

Absa appointed allen international to develop a conceptual test-lab branch at Clearwater Mall, just outside Johannesburg. Absa will use this branch to develop innovative products and processes prior to rolling these out across its entire branch network. By using this model Absa seeks to create a more interactive environment for customers whilst promoting and testing new ways of banking.

The designer’s task was to create a concept of interior design corresponding to the prestigious offer of the Bank as well as being consistent with previously elaborated visual identification of PKO Bank Polski Private Banking. The result is a unique banking institution, providing its customers with security, discretion and best quality of service.

Rethinking the nature of client - customer relations, the design represents a prototype for a bank where money is not always in the foreground. Cast instead as an urban lounge, the atmosphere is open and light with hints of a high-end boutique.

What would a bank of the future look like if the future was right now? With this question in mind, Bradesco bank partnered YDreams, a global specialist in natural user interfaces, to create an innovative environment that would close the gap between reality and the online world.

The Barwa Bank branch design concept has been one of the most challenging projects that Crea International has ever developed: designing the most progressive Islamic bank of the future, showcasing either modernity and coolness strongly rooted with the tradition of the country was the brief assigned by the client.

The Lab is a completely new concept store, the first of its kind, designed by allen international for Allied Irish Bank in partnership with Accenture. It aims to provide a learning and research environment focused on helping customers get the most from AIB’s current and next generation banking services.

The branches of ING Direct are much more similar to a concept store as opposed to the classic bank branch, innovative not only for its visual asset, but also for the functionality and experience it provides their clients.

The bank is located at the ground floor of a building of the 60s which is placed in the historic centre of the town, near the Synagogue. There was a time when this place lodged a little “alternative” theater, with a real stage and some backstage rooms still remaining in traces. The pre-existent has been the inspiration for the project of this new bank branch.