A fault at banking giant HSBC that left thousands of people without their wages before a bank holiday was caused by a mega-payment being rejected. Some 275,000 payments were stranded by the problem that caused anger among customers ahead of the bank holiday in parts of the UK in late August. In a letter to a committee of MPs, the bank said the delays were caused because it tried to push too big a payment through the system in one go. HSBC has now changed its methods....Read more here