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Re:Citigroup Has ‘Technical Issue’ as Customers Say Accounts... by mmsmatt on Friday June 24, 2016 @09:33PM (#11974753)
I doubt any transaction processing systems got updated at any bank in the past 48hrs with the Brexit vote in the air.
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Re:Citigroup Has ‘Technical Issue’ as Customers Say Accounts... by apaprocki on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:16PM (#11974875)
Then again I found this: https://www.iggsoftware.com/support/articles/ibank-5/citiban...
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Re:Citigroup Has ‘Technical Issue’ as Customers Say Accounts... by ratsbane on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:26PM (#11974904)
Good find. An "extended major release" while they're onboarding 11 million new customers sounds painful.
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Re:Citigroup Has ‘Technical Issue’ as Customers Say Accounts... by xiphias on Saturday June 25, 2016 @06:14AM (#11975864)
It looks like they don't really care about distributed systems. With the current software methodologies planned global outages are not acceptable. It's still sad that banks like this can be one of the biggest because of their monopoly position.
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