How a pop-up bank is trying to upend the check cashing industry

A new kind of bank sets up shop at a shuttered deli and grocery store in Brooklyn. It starts to attract attention, registering customers at a rate of two per hour, per employee.
But this bank isn’t conducting business inside the the vacant grocery store — it’s making transactions out front, just down the road from a check cashing store in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood.

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