What the article says is true that traditional roles are disappearing but they're hiring technology people like crazy.

Closing branches, automating branches, that's the direction it's going. eBanking, less face-to-face transactions. Data scientists, etc, to datamine all that valuable purchase history.

So employment-wise it's bad for the population at large, but good for us techies still.

Here's an example of Goldman (not a traditional bank, but still relevant):

http://www.businessinsider.com/pie-chart-google-hiring