Halifax and Lloyds fast payments (FB) service on the blink

trinidadone

lionmike wrote: »

Seems a bit more than a Faster Payment problem. We sent pay to staff by BACS to arrive today and all staff who bank with Lloyds & Halifax had their pay returned to our bank and not credited. Those who bank elsewhere had no problems.

thats interesting to learn. how will the staff get paid then???

trinidadone

sankeylindsey1977 wrote: »

I just spoke to a lady at the Halifax who said it should be fixed by later this afternoon and all faster payments will go through as soon as it is back up and running.

thanks for the update, In my telephone call early this morning, I was advised to try mid morning, still no change

trinidadone

michaels wrote: »

Would be great if the OP could update the title to include Lloyds as well.

Also this sounds like it could be as big as the RBS debacle - hopefully one of the MSE team could start working on it. I don't want to go through the halle of being charged by LTSB/others because paymetns don't happen because I am unable to redeposit my funds that have been stozed elsewhere for the weekend.

Hello Michaels,

I tried changing the title, but could the site did not allow me to make any changes, sorry.

I did enquire with Halifax if I experience any charges with another provider, what I should do, and was advised to contact them back

update,

with a little help from a fellow MSE I changed the title for you

trinidadone

edward123 wrote: »

I have a SO from LTSB to Halifax which went through last night sometime. And when transferring same amount back to LTSB this morning no problems. With me then the problem seems to be with LTSB <----> different banking institutions.

thanks for the respons edward

lionmike

trinidadone wrote: »

thats interesting to learn. how will the staff get paid then???

We are waiting to be told what is going to happen and whether or not LBG will recall the earlier payments or whether we need to try and send a new one.

trinidadone

lionmike wrote: »

We are waiting to be told what is going to happen and whether or not LBG will recall the earlier payments or whether we need to try and send a new one.

fingers cross, As this is the first payment afterChristmas, I bet this is more important than most for the staff team, it would be interesting to know what has caused this

pmduk

trinidadone wrote: »

I thought Faster payments was usually instant, but def a max of two hours. next day is not a FB

Even under FP a transfer is allowed to take until the end of the next working day. Strange, but them's the rules. The 2 hours is just a guide,

zennith

trinidadone wrote: »

I tried changing the title, but could the site did not allow me to make any changes, sorry.

Hi, if you click edit, then go advanced - you will be able to change the thread title.

trinidadone

pmduk wrote: »

Even under FP a transfer is allowed to take until the end of the next working day. Strange, but them's the rules. The 2 hours is just a guide,

thanks for the clarifaction, it puts a whole new meaning on the term "fast"

sscott5581

Tried a FP from HSBC and First Direct to Halifax, would not allow suggesting I contact Halifax.