Lloyds Bank IT issues

[Steven_Cleaver]

Lloyds bank seem to be having IT issues this morning couldn't make online payments and even in the bank they were having issues with there systems.

[6Foot2]

Lloyds Bank was having problems last Saturday when I went into our local branch to sort dad's account:

 

Link: Lloyds Bank down? Current problems and issues | Down Detector

 

[FN-GM]

Untested software update apparently.

[southhamster]

Untested software update apparently.

Maybe they got their mates in TSB to do the updates!

[mikeprice]

Maybe they got their mates in TSB to do the updates!

 

That's a bit harsh

 

but I seem to remember having a Lloyds TSB credit card a while back - so maybe they still both use the same manuals

[Garacesh]

Well wasn't that what caused TSB's issues? They split from the Lloyds group? Or was it the other way around?

[FN-GM]

Well wasn't that what caused TSB's issues? They split from the Lloyds group? Or was it the other way around?

 

It seems pretty common within banking. It happened with the Natwest / RBS a few years ago. I think its down to the way old legacy systems are linked to new. I know Natwest have a computer system from the 1980's running in the background.

[psydii]

LlyodsTSB shed the team that merged the two banks systems back in 2006/7 as part of a cost cutting efficiency drive. Given the enforced merger with HBOS a year later, the loss of many of these people was... unfortunate. They then lost the CIO who managed HBOS systems merger, making sure the post bailout de-merger was one of the most complex programmes ever undertaken. Edited June 25, 2018 by psydii