Some of the biggest banks found themselves facing outages due to the unprecedented volume from people checking to see if they received their stimulus payments; the government started sending checks via direct deposit on Friday which gave banks until Wednesday to transfer it to consumer accounts; Fiserv, which provides technology to banks, told the Wall Street Journal they had “exceptionally high systemwide volume that led to intermittent accessibility”; most banks said they had resolved the issues in the afternoon, though some were still facing trouble staying online consistently. The Wall Street Journal
