Tokyo Stock Exchange Outage Puts Spotlight on Fujitsu System

TSE said they are responsible for problems, not Fujitsu
The exchange said it expects to resume operations Friday

A photographer captures a screen displaying shares without prices inside the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 1.Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg

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By Vlad Savov, Yuki Furukawa, and Gearoid Reidy

October 1, 2020 at 5:35 AM UTC

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October 1, 2020 at 9:27 AM UTC

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The Tokyo Stock Exchange suffered its worst outage ever on Thursday, taking trading offline for the day and casting the spotlight on the computer system that the bourse developed in collaboration with Fujitsu Ltd.