How come banks don’t update my account information on the weekend, do their computers all go to sleep?

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How come nothing ever goes through on like a balance sheet when online banking over the weekend? It always updates on Monday it seems like. What’s that all about?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

If their server screwed up, all the IT folks had to work on standby to recover it.

Basically many task still need human to vet once awhile. In banks, money is sensitive and there are hackers would hack during these time.

It’s a general practise not to push any IT new services or major update during Friday sat sun. Also network freeze season like local holidays and international holidays.

These are major or sensitive updates generally done on Monday to Thursday.

I work in telco, so it is industrial practise as such.

But then again, once in a while, some stupid new CTO or CIO would do that to “gain” customer favour and most of the time, they would back fired and director board would say no major push on these days again and we go back to square one.

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