Totally Sardonic Bank: Well, it must be, to have a TITSUP* the same week as THAT report

Has learned from its mistakes... again

Updated TSB has again managed to capture the ire of thousands of customers after a technical glitch meant delays to payments into some accounts - just days after a damning report heavily criticised the bank for last year's IT meltdown.

The comedy bank has deployed that over-used five-letter word - sorry - to the legion of account-holders about the latest wobble, which started last night and continued into today, only being resolved at the start of lunch.

Overnight some payments were delayed in and out of TSB accounts. This has now been resolved and the payments have been completed. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.

— TSB (@TSB) November 22, 2019

TSB first admitted troubles after 8am UK this morning, saying: We apologise for the inconvenience that has caused and will ensure customers are not left out of pocket… customers can still use their cards to make payments or withdraw cash.”

This is true, but only if those affected customers had sufficient funds into their accounts. This wasn't the case for many who had been expecting payments to clear, and they leapt onto Twitter to voice their annoyance.

This does not help me registered disabled with serve mental health issues no benefits payment so ASDA has cancelled my order as no money I need to put money on my gas and electric and to reorder ASDA I won’t get it until next week I can’t go out shopping as psychotic episodes

— Alain Drummond (@alainark) November 22, 2019

And here:

Really had enough of TSB now and definitely going to change banks my wages not gone in this morning!! It’s been bad enough not being able to see my mortgage statement for nearly two years since the last disaster shouldn’t be happening in this day and age!!! Had enough 😡😡

— donnacalow (@Donna1967) November 22, 2019

And here:

Extremely annoying! I wanted to use money, my wages, to buy some pre sale concert tickets today that go on sale at 10am. They'll be gone quickly and now I won't have the funds to try unless it's cleared by then. If not I'll have no chance! Cheers TSB

— Paul Wallace (@paultakeone) November 22, 2019

The Register has called and emailed all the PR reps at TSB to ascertain the technical issues that caused the latest service interruption. We won't hold our breath for comment.

TSB has been pulled over hot coals for its flakey approach to IT: a badly specified migration of its core banking data and payment records left 1.9 million customers unable to access services last spring.

The whole sorry debacle cost CEO Paul Pester his job and the bank £330m, including £125.2m in customer compensation and £49.1m in fraud and operational losses. TSB was forced to hire external help in the shape of IBM.

The 262-page report - commissioned by TSB - which was published earlier this week – concluded TSB needed stronger oversight of its suppliers as the bank migrated from former parent Lloyds Banking Group’s IT Platform to new owner Sabadell's equivalent infrastructure - this was supposed to cut costs by £160m.

The "highly complex" migration required project managing services from more than 70 suppliers and the efforts of over 1,400 people.

"In particular, a key cause of the extent of disruption was that the two data centres, built to support the new platform were, in certain areas, configured inconsistently despite having been specified to be identical. Additional issues around coding and capacity also arose," the report stated. "These technical issues were then compounded by the high volume of customer enquiries as public concern increased – enquiries which exceeded the contingency resources already in place."

The Proteo4UK platform run by Sabadell to which TSB moved its ops had not been sufficiently put through its paces. There were 2,000 defects relating to testing when the systems went live yet the board was made aware of only 800.

TSB CEO Richard Meddings apologised and he insisted the bank had learned from its mistakes. ®

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Updated 22 November to add:

A TSP PR rep has sent us a statement, assuring that "Customers will not be left out of pocket."