Bank of New Zealand incident

VISA Card Transaction Processing Outage

Resolved after 3 hours 7 minutes, affecting Accepting card payments and Making card payments, on September 18, 2026.

monitoring Sep 18, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Started
Sep 18, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 18, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC
Duration
3h 7m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 18, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC

Affected components

Accepting card paymentsMaking card payments

Update timeline

  1. identified Sep 18, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC

    Unplanned maintenance: We are currently experiencing issues processing the following transactions. • BNZ VISA Debit and Credit Card Teams are investigating and updates will be provided as they are received

  2. identified Sep 18, 2026, 08:52 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  3. identified Sep 18, 2026, 08:54 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. monitoring Sep 18, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  5. resolved Sep 18, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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