MSE News: Hit by latest NatWest and RBS meltdown? Get your charges back

Former_MSE_Helen

"NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank customers won't be left out of pocket after an IT glitch ..."

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djrenegade_2

RBS Say:

An RBS spokesperson says: "The systems issues that affected our customers last night have now been resolved and all our services are now back working normally.

"If any customer is experiencing issues this morning, they should get in touch with our call centres or come into our branches, where our staff will be ready to help."

I am still experiencing problems, have contacted RBS this morning and was told that the systems are still experiencing problems, are still being looked in to and should be resolved by the end of the day.


So has it been resolved or not, are they just trying to re-assure us or is there actually still a fault?!

Kavanne

I made an online payment from my santander account to my RBS one at the weekend, it was there immediately after when I checked my mobile app but now it has disappeared!! I've tried calling RBS but I waited for half an hour and no answer.

Former_MSE_Helen

RBS, NatWest and Ulster help.

The bank's agreed to do a Q&A for us about the outage and what can be done. Send us questions ASAP on here.

Thanks.

djrenegade_2

OK Helen, I had money sent to my account yesterday, I transferred it out my account to another, today the credited funds aren't showing but my balance is minus because the transfer of funds is, i'd like to know when my statement is likely to reflect this, when my balance will be updated accordingly, if i will get a charge for the unauthorised overdraft (being in minus) and if I will be compensated for not being able to access a penny of my money today because I do not have an overdraft facility.

Thanks

brewerdave

And I STILL can't log in!:mad:

EDIT -Thanks to a suggestion on another thread I disconnected from the internet (didn't reboot the router) then reconnected a few minutes later to get a new IP address allocated -and lo and behold, I can log in !!

Kavanne

Kavanne wrote: »

I made an online payment from my santander account to my RBS one at the weekend, it was there immediately after when I checked my mobile app but now it has disappeared!! I've tried calling RBS but I waited for half an hour and no answer.

My money is back in my account Yay

callum9999

djrenegade wrote: »

OK Helen, I had money sent to my account yesterday, I transferred it out my account to another, today the credited funds aren't showing but my balance is minus because the transfer of funds is, i'd like to know when my statement is likely to reflect this, when my balance will be updated accordingly, if i will get a charge for the unauthorised overdraft (being in minus) and if I will be compensated for not being able to access a penny of my money today because I do not have an overdraft facility.

Thanks

Yes you'd get all the charges refunded - as has already been said ad nauseum. It's even in the title of this very thread...

No you probably won't be compensated further. It's not their fault you leave every penny you have in one account (particularly considering this site advises people not to do that time and time again! - and you can hardly claim that you were unaware these things happen considering the enormous publicity around it when it happened last year, again with Natwest/RBS), but it's definitely worth asking for anyway. They can only say no!

Former_MSE_Helen

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dazzammm

its no coincidence that the problems have occured since the UK staff who looked after the system (20+ yrs IT experience each) were replaced by offshore graduates (the entire TEAM dont have 10 years IT experience!)

its the same across all banks, retails, insurance companies, utility companies - guys who have been there decades and averted these types of disasters many times over being replaced by offshore people straight out of university with next to no experience and definatley no experience of averting these kind of problems. all in the name of cost cutting / increasing profits.

there are thousands of these guys who have been out of work for years or have had to find new careers who could have solved the problem in half an hour.

Ask yourself - did we have this many IT glitches 5 years ago?

Sammie20131

I am thinking about moving to Barclays these last 18 months I have had my interest free overdraft buffer removed, charges hiked, ISA interest rate cut in half and these IT issues 3 times.

I am worried about closing an account that I have held for 5 years and moving to someone else. May I ask, will closing my account affect my credit file, are Barclays any better or am I just moving from one issue bank to another?? Please help