Can't access the website, but the mobile app seems to be working...
Lloyds personal banking hit with 'intermittent' outage
Customers of Lloyds personal banking have been furiously hitting refresh this morning due to "intermittent" issues accessing their accounts. According to web-monitoring site Down Detector, the problem first began around 9am. Lloyds told customers on Twitter that it was aware of "an intermittent issue affecting some customers …
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Thursday 14th July 2016 11:14 GMT ad47uk
halifax as well
Had the problem for a few days, with my Halifax account, part of the same company, so no doubt uses the same system. Furiously hitting refresh? nope, just one of those things that happen, app is fine.
When I asked Halifax last night they said all was fine, but changed that today to all is not fine :)
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Friday 15th July 2016 10:03 GMT paulf
Re: halifax as well
Not quite, Halifax is a brand of Bank of Scotland plc and operates under a separate banking license to Lloyds Bank. They are both part of Lloyds Banking Group and yes, both use the same back end platform. Halifax was fine for me this morning though.
As an aside, FTA: "the UK banking sector is particularly prone to outages. This is because of the overly complicated code running a number of mission-critical banking apps."
Before we get too critical about the status quo and start rabble rousing for these old system to be replaced with nice shiny spanking new systems lets look at a few case studies. The recent introduction of new billing systems at NPower, Scottish Power and Vodafone would be a good start.
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