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Faster Payments Down

unrecordings
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edited 18 January 2019 at 1:16PM in Budgeting & bank accounts
Just been advised by my bank that the Faster Payments system is down - [STRIKE]affecting all banks[/STRIKE]

12:15 pm Edit: maybe just Lloyds Group

Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
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  • Sea_Shell
    Sea_Shell Posts: 10,305 Forumite
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    Ah, maybe that's why money I've just moved from Santander to Lloyds isn't showing yet.
    How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 3.24% of current retirement "pot" (as at end December 2025)
  • flo22
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    Lloyds is down, other banks should be ok
    30+ years working in banking
  • If you can bare to be in hold for over half an hour, give your sending bank a call an ask for advice. I was told to call back later this afternoon and not to try making the payment again as it'll likely go out twice

    Edit - I was told it's all banks using the Faster System (by someone at Lloyds admittedly)

    Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
  • tesco to nationwide worked 10 mins ago
  • davethorp
    davethorp Posts: 1,578 Forumite
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    Yorkshire bank to nationwide worked a few minutes ago
  • Halifax is affected
  • unrecordings
    unrecordings Posts: 2,017 Forumite
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    edited 18 January 2019 at 1:11PM
    might just edit my OP based on these last couple of posts...

    Edit: Or maybe not...

    Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
  • unrecordings
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    So if it's just Lloyds Group then Halifax, RBS, Barclays should also be down ?

    Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
  • Damns, there was my Nigerian Colonel just about to deposit fist loads of cash into my account and now this!
  • Just been advised by my bank that the Faster Payments system is down - [STRIKE]affecting all banks[/STRIKE]

    12:15 pm Edit: maybe just Lloyds Group

    Thanks so much for posting this, Unrecordings; I've been trying to transfer some money from my Lloyds account to Nationwide and got the message that I should check my statement for up to two hours, to see if it will go to its destination.

    As it seems to be a fault with Lloyds Faster Payments and the money hasn't actually left my account, I'm not going to bother to ring their expensive phone line at this stage.

    I hope they can get their act together soon! :cool:
    A cunning plan, Baldrick? Whatever it was, it's got to be better than pretending to be mad; after all, who'd notice another mad person around here?.......Edmund Blackadder.
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