SPECIAL: Federal Reserve falls over massive hours-long tech outage on February 24, 2021 and knocks down the U.S. inter-bank transfer system. “The IT outage at the United States’ central banking system effectively prevented the nation’s financial institutions from electronically sending money to each other, knackering wire transfers and deposits. The breakdown also affected a wide variety of services, including FedACH, FedCash, FedLine Advantage, FedLine Command, FedLine Direct, FedLine Web, and Fedwire Funds.” Watching: