Mobile banking services for RBS and NatWest have been hit by an IT glitch, along with an unconnected problem that affected some Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland online users.
In a statement given to Sky News, a spokesperson for RBS Group said: “Some customers may have had trouble getting into mobile banking today between 8.40am and 2.30pm.
“All services are back up and running as normal. We apologise for any inconvenience this caused.”
A spokesman for Lloyds Banking Group said there was a temporary issue on Friday morning that affected mobile and online services for a small number of customers who were trying to set up payments at Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland.
A Lloyds spokesman said: “We are aware that a small number of customers experienced issues accessing payments this morning.
“The issue has now been rectified and we are working with those customers who were affected.”
The RBS Group has been hit be a sequence of system-wide IT failures in the past, which affected RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank.
More recently, it has suffered ‘pay day problems’Â in the past, when workers expect to see funds enter their accounts.
Branch and cash machines are believed to be unaffected by the latest woes.
In its last annual results, the group said it was investing heavily in computer infrastructure to modernise its systems.
A number of banks were affected in February when workers expected funds to be deposited.
According to the British Bankers’ Association, the use of mobile devices for banking services with their swift code has doubled in the past 12 months.
RBS saw more than 17 million log ins in one week, through its mobile app, earlier this month.
In late December the group was hit by its fourth IT failure, after a cyber attack left online users unable to access accounts.
That followed an outage in early December, on one of the year’s busiest shopping days.
