HOMELESS and BANKLESS: Banks closing their branches as online banking grows; robberies traumatize rural banks; failures at much lower rate than recent years

EASTON, MD. — The well-built former branch of Capital One Bank in Easton, which bought out Chevy Chase Bank, boasts an iconic design. The closed bank building needs no sign to identify it. The building was part of the brand but today it sits empty with a ‘for lease’ sign nearby and a homeless man camped out on the front porch during what formerly was during business hours.

Now the bankless joins the homeless.