The systems failure at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) which left millions of customers unable to access their accounts, has found its culprit in a junior technician in India, who accidentally erased information during a routine software upgrade. The “inexperienced operative”, who was working on the programme for the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and Ulster Bank, is believed to have been based in Hyderabad, India. The technology website, The…

Last week’s systems failure problem at Royal Bank of Scotland has resulted in another bizarre situation when a man who had been jailed but granted bail was released only yesterday as it was unclear whether or not his bail payment had been made. The man who had been jailed at Canterbury Crown Court, Kent, was not freed until the confirmation of the bail payment was received. A second case in…