Saturday, 11 January 2014

Ancient IT makes a banking meltdown inevitable

KPMG report warned last year that the next systemic shock to UK banking could come from an as yet unforeseen event, such as a massive payment outage or a cyber attack. Since the IT systems in most banks are complex and some essential parts of these systems are very old, a system outage is almost inevitable. The IT systems that hold up our every financial move are a disaster waiting to happen.   

The full blog at - 
https://theconversation.com/ancient-it-makes-a-banking-meltdown-inevitable-21866

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