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Revolut and other banking apps go down as Google Cloud suffers UK outage

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Revolut and other banking apps go down as Google Cloud suffers UK outage

Bloomberg/Getty Images Multiple banking apps in London, including Revolut, faced disruptions on Tuesday morning.

Google Cloud is also experiencing outages in London.

Revolut said in a statement that customers' money is safe while it investigates the disruption.

Google Cloud is experiencing outages in London that appear to have knocked out a number of banking services.

An update on Google Cloud's status dashboard states that it's seeing service issues at its europe-west2 region, which covers the London area.

A handful of banking apps and services, including Halifax and Revolut, reported issues on Tuesday that coincided with Google Cloud's disruptions.

Some companies said that the Google Cloud outage was the cause, while others attributed it to an unnamed third-party provider.

"We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting multiple services.

We can confirm that all our customers' money and data are safe.

We've been working to fix the issue since it was identified this morning and apologize to anyone affected and for any inconvenience caused," Revolut said in a statement.

"We're aware some customers are having issues with our app and online.

We're sorry about this and are working hard to fix it," Halifax posted on X.

Emma, a popular UK budgeting app, also reported outages on Tuesday.

"Emma is currently down due to a Google Cloud outage affecting services in London since 7am.

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