Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Overview of Banking Sector: Ulster Bank

10:55 am

Mr. Jim Brown:

That is correct. As has been commented, the root cause of the incident was a software upgrade failure in the transaction processing system which processed transactions for all banks, that is, RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank. It operates out of Fettes Roe in Edinburgh.