RBS Director: We’re clueless about IT, we need external consultants…

We’re clueless about IT, says RBS Board director

 

 

 

Chris Sullivan, head of RBS UK Corporate Banking, told the Northern Ireland assembly this morning that RBS would commission an independent review of the IT failure:

“I don’t think any of us are IT experts, so the board of RBS has commissioned independent consultants to look at the whole [...]

Channel 4 exposes how Hester rejected RBS insider’s warnings to MP in 2010 of the ‘enormous risk’ of ‘total outages’ due to offshoring and outsourcing

At last, a mainstream broadcaster begins to question the RBS PR spin that the NatWest and Ulster Bank fiasco, still not over, has nothing to do with its sacking of hundreds of experienced and highly-qualified UK staff as part of its massive outsourcing and offshoring strategy.  cantankerous has already exposed how overnight batch support was moved abroad with [...]

The RBS Billion Pound Difference: 99% is not 100%

RBS is currently spinning that it has recovered 99% of the financial transactions of its RBS and NatWest customers and the mainstream media seem quite happy with this.  But anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of finance and data knows that this means that the data recovery process at RBS has probably not worked as it [...]

The RBS, NatWest, Infosys, India offshoring/outsourcing story of the replacement of highly-trained and experienced UK staff with poorly paid Indian ‘freshers’ in a CV

UPDATE 13:57 26/6/12: I’ve just been told that, as expected, this CV has now been deleted.  I wonder why Infosys and RBS would want confirmation of the Infosys work on batch processing on RBS’s IBM mainframes deleted?  Couldn’t be anything to do with what the RBS CEO, Stephen Hester, said, denying there is any link between offshoring, [...]