{"id":91333,"date":"2026-07-27T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/91333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:09:08","slug":"barclays-halifax-and-lloyds-banks-crash-with-customers-unable-to-transfer-cash-news-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/91333\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclays, Halifax and Lloyds banks crash with customers unable to transfer cash | News UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SEI_237799915-f320.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28889659\" alt=\"A general view of the exterior of a branch of the Lloyds bank chain on January 29, 2025 in London, England.\" decoding=\"sync\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tOne Lloyds customer is struggling to make transfers online (Picture: Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Customers of three major British banks are reporting problems with accessing their accounts and making transfers.<\/p>\n<p>Downdetector data suggests hundreds of reports of problems with the high street giants Halifax, Lloyds and Barclays all beginning at about midday.<\/p>\n<p>One individual reported an error message when trying to send funds from a Lloyd\u2019s credit card from a current account with helplines jammed.<\/p>\n<p>One customer posted: \u2018Is anyone else having any issues with Lloyds? I can\u2019t get money from the ATM nor make any bank transfers to pay etc. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018My partner is also having the same issues with her Lloyds account. Their helpline has a 40-minute delay \u2013 so something is definitely not right.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSign up for all of the latest stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Start your day informed with Metro&#8217;s <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/news-updates\/?signup-source=news-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News Updates<\/a> newsletter or get <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/breaking-news?ito=news-article&amp;?signup_source=news-article-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News<\/a> alerts the moment it happens. <\/p>\n<p>A Lloyds representative replied: \u2018We\u2019re investigating an issue affecting Faster Payments, which may cause delays. If you\u2019ve already made a payment, please don\u2019t send it again. Check it has gone through first to avoid duplicate payments.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Another user who experienced payment issues with Halifax, wrote: \u2018What is going on? I tried to transfer some money and it kept saying error unable to complete, I tried a few times and got the same message, now it\u2019s done multiple transfers?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A representative from Halifax replied to the user to fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story\u2026 More to follow\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/07\/17\/uk-bank-launches-new-100-mortgage-get-ladder-0-deposit-29162434\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK bank launches new 100% mortgage that could get you on the ladder with \u00a30 deposit<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/07\/01\/halifax-will-disappear-high-street-173-years-28998898\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halifax will disappear from the high street after 173 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tComment now<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tComments<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" class=\"metro-button share-bar-preferred-source\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAdd as preferred source<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNews Updates<\/p>\n<p>Stay on top of the headlines with daily email updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Lloyds customer is struggling to make transfers online (Picture: Getty) Customers of three major British banks are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21264],"tags":[714,3343,4514,2861,18,5],"class_list":["post-91333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barclays","tag-banking","tag-barclays","tag-halifax","tag-lloyds-banking-group","tag-news","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116992577616651345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}