Standard Bank experienced a notice incident on November 19, 2021 affecting Instant Money and Instant Money and 1 more component, lasting 4h 33m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Nov 19, 2021, 04:53 AM UTC
We are currently experiencing a technical issue with SMS messages. Message services that are impacted OTP SMS's Instant Money SMS's Lotto SMS's MyUpdates SMS's Prepaid purchases - Airtime, Electricity SMS's Other SMS's You may still be having difficulties receiving OTP and SMS notifications across our banking and online payment services. Our external service provider is experiencing technical issues and we are working with them to restore services soon. We apologise for the inconvenience caused
- investigating Nov 19, 2021, 06:31 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified Nov 19, 2021, 06:41 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- resolved Nov 19, 2021, 09:26 AM UTC
Our OTP and My Updates services are back up and running. Thank you for your patience, and apologies for any inconvenience this has caused