British Bank closes the site until April 2012

Halifax Bank of Scotland clients are recommended to print all the necessary information from their investment account until April 18, 2011, after which the investment section of the site will be closed . This is done to develop "a completely new site, more secure and easy to use", with the support of even mobile banking. In the updated form, all this wealth of new technologies will open in April 2012.

Notifications were sent to customers with a link to a web page that lists phone numbers for contacting the bank.

After closing the online service, it will be possible to contact the bank only by phone or letter (or pigeon mail).

The question arises: what prevents to develop a new version in parallel with the current one? Why is it necessary to close the old site? In response to this question, a spokesman for the bank, in an interview with The Register, said that this was part of the overall reorganization of the bank’s web services, and only a small proportion of customers used online investment banking.
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Of course, the arguments of the bank manager do not hold water. It is easier to believe that the true reason for the closure of the service lies in the field of information security. Maybe they found some kind of global hole, which can not be corrected in any other way except to rewrite everything from scratch. Otherwise it is difficult to explain how this is possible in the modern world - just take and close the site for a year “for upgrade”.