Barclays outage affecting payments and online banking

Barclays slope has confirmed it is experiencing IT problems which it says is affecting its app, online banking and payments successful and retired of accounts.

The slope says it is besides incapable to supply assistance via telephone oregon its "Message us" service.

Cards and currency machines tin beryllium utilized arsenic normal.

Barclays has not explained the origin of the outage, oregon however galore customers are affected.

It has apologised for the problems, and says it is "working hard to hole the issue".

Customers person taken to societal media to picture the disruption it is causing.

One said that her January wages "had disappeared".

Barclays is 1 of the UK's largest banks, with implicit 20 cardinal UK retail customers, and it says it processes implicit 40% of the UK's recognition and debit paper transactions.