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RBC Direct Investing is the brokerage division of the Royal Bank of Canada.

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Service Disruption

On Wednesday, Jan 24 2021, its apps and platforms crashed during the morning. RBC confirmed there was an “intermittent outage that has since been resolved.”. [1] And on July 22nd, 2021, when trying to access their online banking services at RBC, Canadians experienced lots of access problems. [2]

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References

  1. "Outages at online trading platforms prompt calls for better fintech". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  2. "Some of Canada's major banks experiencing online banking outages | News". dailyhive.com. Retrieved 2021-07-30.