Singapore bank DBS says deposits safe after two-day tech outage


FILE PHOTO A man walks past DBS signage in Singapore Oct. 8 2019. REUTERSFeline LimFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past DBS signage in Singapore, Oct. 8 2019. REUTERS/Feline Lim/File Photo

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -DBS Group Holdings Ltd, Southeast Asia's largest bank, assured customers on Wednesday that their deposits and monies were safe as its online banking services faced disruption for the second consecutive day.

The disruption, including to its payments app, is the biggest suffered by Singapore's DBS since a major glitch in 2010 left customers unable to withdraw cash from ATMs for hours. That resulted in the bank facing central bank supervisory action.

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