Many financial institutions are required by regulation to enforce a minimum contiguous two week period without accessing internal systems. Even if the regulati

Many financial institutions are required by regulation to enforce a minimum contiguous two week period without accessing internal systems. Even if the regulations don't require it, it's not necessarily a bad idea. If your systems are so fragile that they can't cope with a two week absence, that's a problem. And the point of the regs is to flush out people who are trying to cover up problems -- two weeks may well be long enough for someone else to notice something they wouldn't normally notice because the person who is away would normally "deal with it".