Only ATMs and point of sale devices unaffected by Standard bank glitches

03 August 2015 - 14:35 By RDM News Wire

“System outages” led to Standard Bank customers experiencing “slow responses on some of its banking platforms” on Monday. The bank said in a statement that “Internet Banking and our App banking platform is currently not available”‚ and also affected was the “ability to do transactions at Standard Bank branches”.ATMs and point of sale devices were‚ the bank said‚ not affected by the outages.Services disrupted today are still impacted. We're still working to resolve. ATM & Card swipes are available. Apologies to affected clients. — Standard Bank SA (@StandardBankZA) August 3, 2015 We will continue to update clients on Twitter until the technical issues affecting various services this morning are resolved. Apologies. — Standard Bank SA (@StandardBankZA) August 3, 2015junk“Standard Bank would like to apologise for the inconvenience that this has caused‚ and would like to assure our customers that everything is being done to restore services as quickly as possible‚” the bank said.Disgruntled clients, however, turned to social networking site Twitter to express frustration.The Standard Bank app stresses me more than it helps me. — Sibongile Mafu (@sboshmafu) August 3, 2015junkStandard Bank's website & app are down & it could be losing as much as R605 000/hr http://t.co/Yl6CXRUB6c — Moneyweb News (@Moneyweb) August 3, 2015junkOther potential clients, however, expressed relief at not being affected.People saying that they will go 2 FNB amid Standard Bank's tech issue. Didn't FNB also have a tech issue that caused downtime early in June? — Shaun Balliah (@Shaun_Balliah) August 3, 2015junk..

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