Coast Capital Savings customers will experience limited banking access this weekend as the bank shuts down most of its services from Feb. 8 to 12.

The closures come as Coast Capital switches to a new banking system.

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While the upgrades will mean better service in the future for customers, over the weekend the nearly 500,000 Coast Capital customers will have no access to their account information.

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Fordy is encouraging customers who are using ATMs during the service disruption to use other credit unions to avoid banking fees.

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Coast Capital began to notify customers about the closures a couple of weeks ago through letters from the CEO and followed up with an announcement through social media, signage and reminders to customers as they visited the branches.

The service disruption begins today (Feb. 8) at 3 p.m.