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RBS fined £56m for control failures over 2012 IT outage

Poor infrastructure resilience led to IT glitch that affected millions of customers and introduced systemic risk to the UK financial system

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UK regulators have fined RBS £56 million for IT failures that affected millions of customers in 2012 and could have resulted in a knock-on disruption for the UK financial system.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on November 20 jointly fined RBS for the glitch which disrupted the banking of over 6.5 million UK customers of RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank

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