BSP has confirmed that as of 1st May, 2023, seventy-five percent of funds have been repaid by customers who have overdrawn their accounts in April, with an outstanding balance of less than K2.0m expected to be repaid over the next few weeks. Further yet BSP assures all customers who have been experiencing issues with their account balance that BSP has now verified all accounts and confirms that all account balances are now correct. That’s from the BSP Group CEO Mark Robinson in a statement yesterday. According to Mr Robinson, on Friday 7th April, some customers withdrew funds from their accounts at ATMs and EFTPoS, after a technical error caused some available account balances to be incorrect. This resulted in approximately 36,000 customer accounts being overdrawn. BSP clarified that it did not deposit any funds into the impacted customer accounts. “The total amount of the outstanding overdrafts was K7.9mil.” “When this situation arose, BSP announced that customers could repay these funds without interest or penalties.” “This situation arose because of a short-lived technical issue related to our new Banking System implementation.” “I am pleased to say that our customers are fully cooperating with us when they are informed of their overdrafts and most have since repaid any outstanding amount,” Mr Robinson said. “Furthermore, I can confirm that our Banking System has not been hacked and is continuously being monitored to prevent any outside interference.” Mr. Robinson further stated that, after three weeks from the implementation of the new system, the number of technical issues impacting some of the banking services has substantially decreased, as their dedicated team of specialists and vendors prioritise the remediation of known issues and implement additional process improvement measures. “We acknowledge there will be ongoing improvements we need to make as we fine-tune our new system.” “For customers in rural areas, please reach out to the nearest BSP branch, sub- branch or Hybrid branches if you have any issues.” “Our branch teams are ready to assist customers and BSP Agents are also available to assist with basic transactions.” BSP would like to reassure customers that most of the technical issues impacting the availability and delays to banking services have been resolved, thus BSP is committed to improving its service standards. The bank further thanked customers for patience and understanding during this recent transition period to its new Banking System. To keep up to date with the availability of services, BSP encourages customers to visit the Social Media pages and the BSP Website to access the new Service Update and the Support Page to view the self-help resources.