Banks|“Outages are an acute problem,” says Sakari Puisto (ps), chairman of the finance committee.
Its online bank continuous suffered from disorders Next Wednesday, Nordea will be able to explain the matter to the parliament’s economic committee.
Chairman of the committee Sakari Park (ps) said on Tuesday MTV for news the committee organizes a hearing serving access to information on the problems of banking services.
Representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Finland, the Financial Supervisory Authority, the Financial Stability Board, the Cyber Security Center and the Finnish Security Police have also been asked to be consulted. In addition, the Minister of Economic Affairs will participate in the consultation Will Rydman (p.s.).
According to MTV’s news, Nordea is the only bank that has been invited to the hearing. However, Puisto tells HS that the final list of those to be consulted is not ready yet.
Sakari Park (ps)
According to Puisto, the idea of holding a hearing due to interruptions in banking services arose from the committee’s discussion on the matter.
“Outages are an acute problem,” says Puisto. He reminds that scams related to banking services have also increased recently.
at Nordea has recently had repeated difficulties with its online bank. The last time there were problems was today, Tuesday.
“The disruption was caused by a technical update carried out in the morning, which caused unforeseen problems in our services”, Nordea announced on Tuesday afternoon.
According to Nordea, the weekend’s problems were due to the fact that technical changes were made on the night between Saturday and Sunday due to denial of service attacks. In recent weeks, Nordea has been the target of repeated denial of service attacks.
In addition to online services, Nordea’s ATMs have also had problems.
Finance Committee chairman Puisto says that the committee has been in the habit of organizing information-seeking hearings on current topics 2–3 times in the fall and the same number in the spring.
Last week, the committee had a hearing on industrial policy.
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