Finance Many people have expected the financial sector to be a "disaster area" in terms of Y2K for many reasons. The main service driving the financial industry--lending money--often extends over years or even decades. Moreover, the handling of huge sums of money depends on computers, while financial institutions are closely interlinked on computer networks, so rocking one will shake the whole structure.
由於金融業的主力業務﹘﹘貸款，往往橫跨數年甚至數十年，加上龐大金錢數字的處理極端仰賴電腦，各金融機構間的網絡又是如此緊密、牽一髮動全身，因此在電腦年序問題中，金融業一直是人們預期的百分之百「重災區」。