There are a lot of reports on the net about online banking being down, also in my country.
I checked all 3 banks I work with and none of them giving me problems, not online and not in the self-bank units.

(gave me a bit of a scare though, yesterday, after I saw the vid msg from FDIC, 107 bank faillures, etc... I was thinking of getting some money out of the bank and wait it out till monday. Husband said "overreacting" so I didn't.)


edit: I just checked BNP paribas Fortis online banking and it doesn't accept the personal digipass code anymore.
Belgium banks ING and DEXIA seems to still work

[edit on 25/10/2009 by GypsK]

Well I can't get into my accounts in Washington, however all my Canadian accounts are letting me get in online. Just seems to be a US thing from what I can tell. My bank's website said services would be avaliable again after 2pm.

Had no issues transferring large sum from paypal into my bank account moments ago..

I can't log into my credit union. What I find strange is that my login isn't even acknowledged. I've logged into my account(s) in the past and got a message saying they were updating their systems and to log back in at a later time. My point is they at least acknowledged my log in and brought up a page with my name/account number.

This time, only a "Account Access service is temporarily unavailable" message and nothing else.

It's really late here, and I should be in bed; but, I may run out and see if I can withdraw from an ATM.

BTW, I seem to remember a post about online banking accounts being down for a limited amount of time; although, I'm not sure of the dates and/or times. I checked my online credit union just after reading the post, and didn't see any similar notices. Didn't give it another thought, until now. So, is this related and just temporary?

or not an American thing, I can access citibank and my local credit union online account services. By the sound of it, I'm guessing this either the one web master situation suggested, or disjointed seeming mass fund transfer above and beyond the normal transfers that occur as the world turns and different time zone's banks pull the electronic funds to themselves to handle the day's transactions

I didn't have any problem logging into my online account. The company I work for isn't a financial company but it seems like they are often doing weekly maintenance during the weekend to minimize trouble and not affect everyone during normal business hours. If the stock market sold off a bit on Monday and some more during the rest of the week, it wouldn't bother me. Maybe we're going to have a Black Monday in the stock market. I have no idea what could trigger that. Hopefully it wouldn't be too bad.

Update:

I went through two bank atms and wasn't able to withdraw cash, got a 'unable to complete your transaction at this time' message. I ran to Walgreens and grabbed a few items, to see if I'd be able to get cash back. It didn't let me get any cash back, nor would the transaction go through as a debit, with no cash back. It did, however, allow me to purchase the items with a credit transaction using the same check card.

Now, I was able to withdraw cash from the small atm/cash terminal in the store; however, it's not a bank terminal, rather one of those privately owned ATM machines. So, I'm not sure what to think of it all.

Still no online access. Could be a general banking upgrade. Who knows, I guess we'll see. If this does turn out to be something else, then I would suggest checking out your local convenience shops for those private ATM machines.

The power of suggestion is a very terrible thing. I had multiple apocalyptic dreams last night - and I put that down to viewing this website yesterday and being inculcated with doomsday scenarios and propaganda.

Looks like I'll be logging off for a while.

Nothing happens with dates, precognition does not work that way.

Thats why i would advise people not to bother listening to threads with dates, take a light hearted approach to it, but do not take seriously.

I certainly don't know for certain but it is conceivable that many banks would perform a major software upgrade on the same weekend if the software application is one used by the majority of financial institutions. If this were to happen, it would likely occur over the weekend during times of low usage.