Standard Chartered sign contract with BT

Contract will minimise the risk of network failure

BT will provide a secondary network

Standard Chartered Bank has signed a contract with BT to for network services covering 16 countries.

A failover system provided by the UK telco will cut out single points of failure and minimise the risk of network failure.

The network will help guarantee the quality and availability of services used for access to centralised banking applications and systems in the bank's data centres.

A failover Regions covered by the contract include the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Malaysia.