Natwest Banking Broken

anotheruser

If anyone has a Natwest account this evening, you may find declining requests when paying for items.

I thought I had balled up buying from Amazon but a quick search on Twitter confirmed what I thought.

Shame as the account is less than 6 months old. I only went with Natwest for their Windows Phone 8 app (no other bank has one yet), but if this happens again then I will certainly be swapping banks.

HSBC, despite their rubbish offering, were at least stable.

UPDATE: BBC News Report.

drlabman

Natwest online banking is broken for me.

Archi_Bald

As of right now, I get:

We are sorry but Online Banking is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later

Am I in some sort of time warp?

charlieboycat

Both NatWest and Ulster Bank online banking are down. Have been since before 6.30pm.

f1widow

Hubby out had his card declined - have been on hold on phoneline for 27 minutes - had to find out via this site and Twitter - why have Natwest not released a statement?:mad:

Very embarrassed husband and worrying why the card was declined !!!:mad:

Milarky

charlieboycat wrote: »

Both NatWest and Ulster Bank online banking are down. Have been since before 6.30pm.

I was able to login to Ulsterbank and do the business just after 6.30 (while the other banks' sites were already giving out the fault message) so I must have been one of the last ones!

mogchops

just had card declined - thankfully only online and not in a shop but even so - for goodness sake nat west, again? REALLY???

JuicyJesus

anotheruser wrote: »

Shame as the account is less than 6 months old. I only went with Natwest for their Windows Phone 8 app (no other bank has one yet), but if this happens again then I will certainly be swapping banks.

HSBC, despite their rubbish offering, were at least stable.

I was going to go to NatWest for a WP8 app, but was put off by NatWest generally being shocking.

Halifax, Lloyds and TSB have WP8 apps, Barclays will be releasing one in the new year and First Direct have confirmed they're working on one to release next year (presumably then HSBC will follow.)

Robbie64

I suppose it wouldn't be the NatWest banking service without it's (now) usual annual website /online banking collapse. Remember June 2012 and November 2011 (amongst others, but they were the worse)?

charlieboycat

Milarky wrote: »

I was able to login to Ulsterbank and do the business just after 6.30 (while the other banks' sites were already giving out the fault message) so I must have been one of the last ones!

It was down at 6.25, up briefly just after 6.30 (I managed one outbound payment out of two) and then went again.

zcrat41

Will be leaving Nat west after this fiasco.