Technology
Revolut outage blocks customers from app, card payments and transfers
October 20, 2026 at 10:27 AM · Updated 23h ago
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4 reports · 1 in Arabic, 3 in English · over 3 hours
Revolut customers were unable to access funds on Tuesday after a service disruption knocked out the app, card payments, transfers and ATM withdrawals.
- Revolut said its services were partially unavailable, affecting sign-up, sign-in, card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals and cryptocurrency services.
- Revolut confirmed customers' money and data are safe and said it has been working to fix the issue since it was identified on Tuesday.
- Outage monitor Downdetector recorded more than 1,500 user reports of Revolut issues shortly after 08:00 BST.
- Google reported elevated errors and intermittent network failures in its europe-west2 region, which hosts Revolut's cloud infrastructure.
- The Google Cloud failure at its europe-west2 London data centre also disrupted services for Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail and Cloudflare.
- Google said it is investigating the outage and working to restore services.



