RBS seem to have had major technology issues

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, William Muriithi wrote:

> Wonder if any other bank have had such an extensive outage, apparently

Other banks have certainly had serious outages in recent years.  One of 
the Big Five banks (RBC?) had a serious outage a few years ago which left 
people briefly unpaid.  Similarly, a couple of Australia's "Big Four" 
banks have had brief outages in recent months (IIRC).

Banks used to be bastions of highly available redundant systems.  I 
wonder if times are changing.  If a bank is too big to be allowed to fail 
then perhaps it is also too big to be allowed to have an outage :)

Cheers,

Rob

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