Delays on a small volume of SEPA Instant processing towards counterparties
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Incident Timeline
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Banking Circle has identified a small volume of Payments still in pending processing state while a limited numbers of banks remains offline. We expect the scheme to be fully operational later in the day.
May 20, 2026 at 5:34 AM UTC
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We are continuously seeing some banks coming back online and accepting payments. We are aware there are still delays in the scheme due to this issue and not all banks are online as of yet. We have experienced some rejections due to transactions exhausting the amount of retry attempts to the banks that are currently offline. Clients will be able to see the rejected payments.
May 19, 2026 at 6:40 PM UTC
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Banking Circle is still experiencing some banks within the scheme are offline due to the incident. Payments to the counterparties who are offline remain in a pending processing state until the incident is resolved. Banking Circle continues to monitor the situation and will update the status page in case of any further developments.
May 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM UTC
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There is an ongoing scheme-wide incident impacting the processing of SEPA Instant Payments. Banking Circle is experiencing banks within the scheme are offline due to the incident. Payments to the counterparties who are offline remain in a pending processing state until the incident is resolved. Banking Circle will update the status page of any new developments
May 19, 2026 at 11:03 AM UTC
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We have identified the issue and we are working on a fix.
May 19, 2026 at 10:07 AM UTC
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