Hundreds of thousands of HSBC customers unpaid due to IT glitch

Charlee Gothard
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Bacs glitch raises prospect of a cash-strapped bank holiday for those affected

HSBC has admitted that 275,000 payments haven't gone through to customers, meaning potentially hundreds of thousands of individuals will not have received wages ahead of the bank holiday. "We a...

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