Santander bank down as customers unable to make payments | Personal Finance | Finance

Santander’s banking services are down, leaving customers unable to make payments or transfers.

Outage reports began to be reported on service status tracking site Downdetector at around 12.17pm.

According to the site, 53% of the issues reported related to customers reporting not being able to make instant payments, as of 2.48pm.

26% of reports were related to card payments, with 21% related to Business Web – Login, the site says.

A spokesperson for the bank said: “We aware that customers are currently unable to access some of our services.

“We’re very sorry for the inconvenience this is causing and are urgently working to fix the problem.

“We would like to reassure our customers that no customer will be left out of pocket,” they added.