Payment systems giant Visa said late Friday it was “operating at close to normal levels” after a hardware failure left it struggling to process transactions in Europe.
The blockage had left some customers stuck at the tills in stores across the continent and queueing at cash machines.
“Visa cardholders can now use their Visa cards as we are currently operating at close to normal levels,” the
company said in a statement.
“The issue was the result of a hardware failure. We have no reason to believe this was associated with any unauthorized access or malicious event.”
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A spokesman told AFP earlier it was not possible to say how many Visa users across Europe had been affected.
Visa users took to social media to complain and banks tried to explain the situation their customers.
HSBC bank’s UK Twitter account earlier said: “From what we understand there are still intermittent issues but services are slowly recovering.”
