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Absa Pay failures

Major Impact Resolved Duration: 123d 19h 36m April 18, 2026

Incident Lifecycle

Identified Monitoring

Incident Timeline

Monitoring
Absa Pay is currently disabled as the problem is being attended to.
Apr 18, 2026 at 9:08 AM UTC
Identified
A problem with Absa Pay transactions on the Aggregation and Gateway platforms has been identified.
We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
Apr 18, 2026 at 6:32 AM UTC
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