visa has said that their card installments are encountering disturbances crosswise over england and europe, the bbc reports today, june 1.
visa, which handles more than 150 mln exchanges a day, tweeted about the administration interruption, taking note of that they will continue refreshing as they settle the circumstance:
we are currently experiencing a service disruption which is preventing some visa transactions in europe from being processed. we are investigating the cause and working as quickly as possible to resolve the situation. we will keep you updated.
— visa uk (@visauk) 1 haziran 2018
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as indicated by the installment frameworks controller, the issue is separated to exclusively visa card installments.
barclays and the bank of ireland have advised their clients to pull back money utilizing atms.
we are aware some customers are experiencing visa debit card issues. this is impacting multiple banks across europe. we will update when we know more. cash withdrawals can be made at any boi atm.
— bank of ireland (@talktoboi) 1 haziran 2018
different banks including natwest and hsbc tweeted about visa issue, noticing that mastercard exchanges are not influenced:
we are aware that some customers are experiencing issues with visa card payments. this is an industry wide issue which is being investigated as a matter of urgency and we apologise for any inconvenience. atm and mastercard transactions are not impacted.
— natwest (@natwest_help) 1 haziran 2018
we are aware of an industry wide issue affecting visa payments which is under investigation. atm and mastercard transactions are not impacted. visa are working hard to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. we will continue to support our impacted customers as needed.
— hsbc uk (@hsbc_uk) 1 haziran 2018
as per the bbc, the market chain tesco has said that the visa issue is influencing clients utilizing contactless installment, yet not those utilizing chip and stick installment frameworks. sainsbury's has likewise noted it was seeing issues with visa card installments.
in any case, card installment arrangement paymentsense tweeted that visa has "amended the blackout" and the present intrusions are expected to an "accumulation of exchanges:"
dear customers,
— paymentsense (@paymentsense) 1 haziran 2018
we have been informed that visa has corrected the outage and transactions are now starting to go through. there is still some intermittency however, we believe this is due to a backlog of transactions.