>>Downside of online banking when a banks in trouble. Accounts with online access only and you can't get online.
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6997197.stm
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>>A bank in trouble could deliberately downgrade access to their servers preventing customers getting their money out.
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>I seem to hear the sound of the first domino falling.
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>It's largely downplayed here - haven't heard a single word yet. Though, my sample is NPR only, and they did publish it in a roundabout manner. They have BBC news once a day, at 9am.
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>I tried googling for news, but can't divine from the web pages whether it was buried in page 8 or page 28.


This is big news here. Leader in all the papers. Interestingly its tied in with the US sub prime lending problem.

Nick