Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas

Re:Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random a... by tialaramex on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:12AM (#29757670)

Consumers (ie actual people) will be made whole by law. And most likely affected businesses won't end up out of pocket either, but the law doesn't protect them as much, on the rationale that they're not people. So banks do screw them over all the time too, just probably not this time.

But the Fundamentally Complicit Authority (no that isn't what their initials really stand for, it's a Private Eye recurring joke because of how useless they are) as regulator is unlikely to expect Santander to actually fix anything about their process, and so this will happen again. And again.

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Re:Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random a... by avianlyric on Saturday January 01, 2022 @10:03AM (#29758868)

> But the Fundamentally Complicit Authority (no that isn't what their initials really stand for, it's a Private Eye recurring joke because of how useless they are) as regulator is unlikely to expect Santander to actually fix anything about their process, and so this will happen again. And again.

Having been at a bank after a similar level of fuck up, you can be sure the FCA will be asking some tough questions, and they absolutely will instruct institutions to fix their processes. Fail to do that enough times, and you’ll be forced to do a skilled persons report. Having experienced that, I can tell you, you don’t want it happening to your bank. It months of audits, followed by years of remediation.

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Re:Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random a... by mike_hock on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:53AM (#29758257)

> no that isn't what their initials really ...

Yes, we understand regulatory capture. Thanks for making your joke cringeworthy by explaining it at length.

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