Standard Bank incident
Payments failure on digital channels and ATM's experienced
Standard Bank experienced a major incident on May 3, 2021 affecting Buy Airtime and Data and Buy Airtime and Data and 1 more component, lasting 51m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Buy Airtime and DataBuy Airtime and DataBuy ElectricityBuy ElectricityPlay LottoPlay Lotto
Update timeline
- investigating May 03, 2021, 02:50 PM UTC
Some customers may not be able to process payments, purchase recharge vouchers and some ATM payment failures may also be experienced
- identified May 03, 2021, 03:23 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring May 03, 2021, 03:28 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved May 03, 2021, 03:41 PM UTC
Services on payments failures are fully restored. We sincerely apologise for the disruption to banking services