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Singapore central bank slams DBS and IBM over systems outage

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has strongly criticised DBS and IBM over last month's seven-hour system-wide outage, ordering the bank to redesign its online and branch technology and reduce its reliance on Big Blue.

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IBM employee fingered as culprit in massive DBS outage

An IBM employee has been fingered as the culprit behind a seven-hour system-wide outage that knocked out all consumer and business banking services and ATM and POS transactions at Singapore's DBS Bank on Monday.

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Nationwide virtualises data centre with Unisys

Nationwide has teamed with IT firm Unisys to virtualise 500 servers at its data centre in a project expected to save the UK building society over £8 million.

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Visa opens US data centre; rolls out operating system for processing network

Visa has opened a global data centre in the United States and partnered IBM to develop a new operating system to underpin its VisaNet transaction processing network.

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Weekend storms take down HBOS IT systems

The severe storms that swept across the UK late Friday caused a power failure at a HBOS data centre in Yorkshire that knocked out the high street bank's cash machines, branches and online banking services.

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Nomura Services India signs IBM business continuity deal

Nomura Services India has inked a multi-year business continuity and resiliency services agreement with IBM.

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Tokyo Commodity Exchange trading halted after new platform hit by glitch

Connectivity problems forced the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) to suspend all trading for over three hours today, just a month after a new technology platform developed by Nasdaq OMX went live.

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Financial services firms' pandemic contingency plans scrutinised

With the number of confirmed swine flu cases continuing to rise, a global benchmarking survey of financial institutions has revealed that, although over 70% of firms have a pandemic-specific business continuity programme in place, many may be dangerously out of date.

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FSA orders banks to reassess flu contingency planning

The Financial Services Authority has called on UK financial services firm to assess their contingency plans in light of the recent outbreak of influenza in Mexico and subsequent alerts from the World Health Organisation.

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Thomson Reuters wins multi-million dollar Manulife outsourcing deal

Thomson Reuters has inked a multi-million dollar investment management outsourcing support deal with Canada's Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC).

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India's Religare goes green with IBM

IBM has won a $3.1 million contract with Religare Enterprises to build green data centres for the Indian financial services firm in a bid to cut annual power costs by over 30%.

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Kookmin Bank contracts with IBM for core banking overhaul

Korea's Kookmin Bank has selected IBM System z10 mainframe technology and DB2 servers as the foundation for a next-generation core banking application platform designed to consolidate all of the bank's different business units across the world.

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Commerce Bank/Harrisburg selects Fiserv for core banking overhaul

Pennsylvania-based Commerce Bank/Harrisburg has selected the Fiserv CBS product suite to modernise and transform its core banking system.

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Online start-up Ivobank contracts with Pasporte for hosted IT services

Ivobank, the London-based online bank launched earlier this year, has signed a five year managed services contract with information and communication technology outsourcing specialist Pasporte.

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Turquoise hit by technical glitch

Just weeks into its phased launch, trading on MiFID-compliant equities trading facility Turquoise has been disrupted by technical glitches.

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HSBC Bank USA struggling with core banking glitch

HSBC Bank USA - the North American subsidiary of the British banking group - has been struggling to restore data and update account balances following technical problems with its core banking platform.

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Enigmatec raises $14m; plans Scottish technology centre

UK software house Enigmatec Corporation has raised $14 million in its latest funding round, which it will use to establish a technology facility in Scotland and expand its international operations.

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Thailand's Thanachart signs IT services deal with IBM

Thailand's Thanachart Bank has inked a seven year, $60 million, information technology outsourcing services deal with IBM.

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Bursa Malaysia loses full day of trading due to hardware failure

Equity trading on Bursa Malaysia was down all day on Thursday, as the exchange suffered a "multi-hardware failure" of its core trading platform. It initially said it would be running again at 14:30 local time after switching to a back-up facility, but the exchange later announced that this would not be possible.

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Regulators warn on risks to global payments and settlement system

Financial regulators are warning that potential risks to the interconnected global payment and settlement infrastructure are not taken into account in current disaster recovery and crisis management procedures.