Lloyds and Nationwide were among British lenders hit by IT glitches on Friday for several hours, amid increased scrutiny by lawmakers of technical problems at banks that have prevented customers from accessing services.

Lloyds Bank and other banks’ online services appear to be down in a major outage. Halifax, TSB, First Direct, Nationwide and Bank of Scotland all appeared to be suffering from problems at the same time.

Thousands of Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and TSB app users have been left without access to funds on payday due to a service outage.

Many Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Nationwide and First Direct customers are suffering issues that are leaving them locked out of their accounts on payday according to Down- Detector.

MAJOR banking apps have gone down for thousands of UK customers with widespread outages reported. Halifax, Lloyds, Monzo, TSB and Nationwide were just some of the banks affected, according to

Customers at Lloyds, Halifax, Nationwide, First Direct, TSB and Bank of Scotland, are reporting issues with banking apps this morning.

Lloyds and Nationwide were among British lenders hit by disruption to services on Friday for several hours, amid growing scrutiny from lawmakers of technical problems at banks hitting services for consumers.

According to reports, the majority of customers are having issues with accessing their mobile and online banking. Some are also having issues with making payments

Halifax, is part of the Lloyds Banking group. It said customers were having problems logging on but no card payment issues had been reported. The banks said there were issues logging on to online and mobile banking. TSB also said it was having “intermittent” issues with online and mobile banking but that card payments were still working