Phinance
If we don't coin a meaning for it now, I fear it will be stolen by a rapper.
Mondays are a terrible way to start the week, but spare a thought for HSBC customers whose online business banking is not quite so online. This morning's IT difficulties at HSBC's online business banking portal make HSBC's ambition of allowing customers to open new accounts with selfies seem that much more ambitious. @ …
Im a webdev I have 800 small business sites spread across several servers, there has been no down time for over two years and even then it was just 5 mins, how can it be with so many engineers and budgets can something go horribly wrong so often?
But even some of the sites that work ok like nationwide still have issues if you look at the browser consol window, fonts blocked by cross-origin script and marketing blurb blocked because http is used rather than https, so no sites perfect but at least I can login.
So Barclays, and now HSBC? Massive scheduling blunder by the government having to replace all their black boxes* after the SHA-1 issue came to light, but also partly because it coincided with the google cockups. Still a couple of banks to go before it's complete...
This is the big secret - none of the transaction processing is automated, the banks just have a massive office employing most of a small country to do it manually via gmail.
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* but obviously not the one that contains the internet.
In fact last week to be precise. Not for the first time either A number of long standing staffers were given the final handshake last week. This is after training people outside of the UK (no prizes for correct submissions) so that they can do their old job.
What could possibly go wrong?
Anon - cos obviously
Understand the DV?
Let me tell you when the crash happened my place when I finally sold it was worth a third of what it was before in Hondon de las nieves, when these bwankers were handing out millions in bonuses to themselves, companies going bust and people losing their jobs, I know more than one who just gave the keys back to the bank and walked away, so p**s off, you don't know s**t!
Watch twenty years of your life go down the pan because of these, greedy, incompetent, self-serving pigs.
Ta! For reading. Rant over!