RBS says sorry for latest bank systems outage that leaves Natwest customers high and dry again
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) says its IT systems are back to normal this morning after technical problems prevented the banking group's customers from accessing cash and paying for goods yesterday.
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Customers at RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank were unable to use their debit cards to withdraw funds from cash machines or pay for goods online yesterday as the banks suffered their latest systems glitch. The disruption occurred on 'Cyber Monday', thought to be one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.
In a statement today, RBS Group apologised for the outage and promised to resolve issues with customers who had left out of pocket by the snafu.
"The systems issues that affected our customers last night have now been resolved and all our services are now back working normally," RBS Group said.
"We would like to apologise to our customers. If anyone has been left out of pocket as a result of these systems problems, we will put this right."
NatWest and Ulster Bank have similarly declared their systems are back to normal, however all three have urged customers still experiencing issues to contact their call centres or branches.
Yesterday's outage follows similar troubles at the three banks earlier this year caused by IT failures that left customers unable to access online bank accounts, cash machines and point of payment systems.
RBS said at the time it was unrelated to the major meltdown in June 2012 that saw customers suffering payment and online banking problems for over a week. RBS set aside £125m to the cover cost and compensate customers affected by a batch processing glitch that failed to update to customer balances.
That outage, which was investigated by the UK's Financial Services Authority, caused delays of more than a week for some customers as the bank worked through a backlog of processing. The problems were thought to have stemmed from the CA-7 system RBS used for batch processing.