HDFC Bank mobile app down for 1 hour; issues resolved

Earlier, HDFC Financial institution’s MD and CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan had apologised to prospects and promised to work on the deficiencies.

The cellular banking app of the most important non-public sector lender HDFC Bank was down once more on Tuesday. The financial institution later knowledgeable customers on Twitter that points round cellular banking app had been resolved and the shoppers may use web banking and the app for transactions.

The financial institution’s IT infrastructure is underneath the Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI) audit for a collection of technical issues reported earlier.

“We’re experiencing some points on the MobileBanking App. We’re trying into this on precedence and can replace shortly. Prospects are requested to please use NetBanking to finish their transaction. Remorse the inconvenience brought about. Thanks,” HDFC Financial institution tweeted at 12:26 pm on Tuesday. Round an hour later, the financial institution as soon as once more tweeted that the problems had been resolved.

RBI is conducting a particular audit on the financial institution’s IT infrastructure as a result of a number of glitches reported prior to now. Final yr in December, RBI had briefly barred HDFC Financial institution from launching new digital banking initiatives and issuing new bank cards after taking a critical view of service outages on the lender during the last two years. Later, RBI had appointed an exterior IT agency to hold out a particular audit of its digital infrastructure.

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das had earlier stated the regulator had some considerations about sure deficiencies and it was obligatory that HDFC Financial institution strengthens its IT system earlier than increasing additional. Earlier, HDFC Financial institution’s MD and CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan had apologised to prospects and promised to work on the deficiencies.

Jagdishan admitted that financial institution confronted two outages in November 2018 and December 2019. He additionally stated the financial institution had taken assist of exterior experience, and had considerably carried out the inputs to strengthen IT infrastructure and programs. Unexpectedly, one other incident occurred on November 21, 2020, and the first cause for a similar was the facility outage within the financial institution’s major information centre, Jagdishan had stated.