Warning signs for TSB's IT meltdown were clear a year ago – insider

Expert ‘could have put money on rollout being a disaster, with evidence of major code changes on the hoof’

The banking software at the heart of TSB’s troubles this week was doomed to failure from the start, an insider with extensive knowledge of the systems involved has said.

With customers locked out of their bank accounts, mortgage accounts vanishing, small businesses reporting that they could not pay their staff and reports of debit cards ceasing to work, the TSB computer crisis has been one of the worst in recent memory. The bank, its chief executive, Paul Pester, admitted on Thursday, was “on its knees” and it faces a compensation bill likely to run to tens of millions of pounds.

Continue reading…

Read More Warning signs for TSB’s IT meltdown were clear a year ago – insider

Related Post