British bank shuts website until April 2012
theregister.co.uk
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If Wells Fargo turned off online banking for 1 month, I'd switch banks.
I wonder if they are handling everything in-house or have hired external consultants/company to build out this wonderful new site & mobile app that will take a full year.
Now if their current system had a major exploit and the only way to fix it is to rewrite the whole thing, I guess they have no choice. At the very least they should have put together a temporary "read only" type of site that involve less/no risk on their part and provide their call centers a bit of relief.
Ballsy move (and not in a good way.)
The UK is a country comprised of four countries. Don't worry, the people that live here don't understand it either.
Great Britain is simply a geographical term applied to the actual archipelago itself.
The economic relationship between scotland and the rest of the country, particularly the government in london is a vexed question that is seen as being badly in need of a solution, but it has been pushed aside in the current economic situation.
It's basically down to the fact that while scotland has partial legislative autonomy, it is unable to raise its own tax revenues independently, but it is much deeper and more complicated than this. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/West_Lothian_...
Also, both RBS and Lloyds Banking Group (who bought/'merged with' HBOS, which was the result of the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and it's Halifax's online banking the story is about) do have special Scottish-only rights, like printing banknotes.