Standard bank internet banking offline again?

[Dave A]

My point is that they could make it much simpler for themselves and us by lobbying Government (or getting together and doing it themselves) to make the proof of residence portion done by a single organisation and kept in a single data base. This organisation can focus on keeping residence info updated and have a standardisation of policy.

Like the Department of Home Affairs, perhaps?
Last I heard, we might be able to go to a bank to get our Identity Documents in future - so there's a clue on the relative capacity to deliver if ever I saw one.

[Phil Cooper]

The only problem is if someone could hack into the general information.......

[BusFact]

Like the Department of Home Affairs, perhaps?

I was kinda hoping for an easier solution, not a more painful one . For it to be remotely effective, it would need to be a privately run organisation. Possibly along the lines that the cheque clearing system is run?

Last I heard, we might be able to go to a bank to get our Identity Documents in future - so there's a clue on the relative capacity to deliver if ever I saw one.

I can just see it:

Monday: Go to the bank to collect my new ID book.
Tuesday: Get called back to the bank so they can take a photo copy of the same book they just gave me for FICA purposes.

I'd probably bleed all over the enquiries desk as I bang my head against it in frustration.

[BusFact]

The only problem is if someone could hack into the general information.......

How would that be any more of a problem than someone hacking into the current ID information database?

[flaker]

The banks are taking turns. I understand that FNB is down countrywide...BANK SHEDDING

[Dave A]

Internet Banking down again (as it was for periods on Friday).
And perhaps more disturbingly, today business online banking is down too (which it wasn't on Friday).

[Phil Cooper]

Yes - PAINFUL - and I will not pay interest on account to which I was trying to transfer funds ....

[Dave A]

Yes - PAINFUL - and I will not pay interest on account to which I was trying to transfer funds ....

Telkom by any chance?
If so, that's my "deadline important" payment for today too.

[Phil Cooper]

No - transfer from Standard Bank to Standard Bank Credit Card

[Dave A]

Ouch!

Business Online banking is back now (Whew!) but I expect you need internet banking for that one.
And internet banking still seems to be dead.

Makes one nervous when it looks like your bank's core IT might have got the wobbles.