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RTGS closed at 20:00 hrs (BST). All 142,759 payments submitted to RTGS today before the extended deadline have now been processed.
Published on
20 October 2014
The Bank has put in place extra steps to monitor the system at the start of the day tomorrow when RTGS will open at 06:00 hrs (BST) as usual. The Bank apologises for any problems caused by the delays to the settlement of payments today and has launched a thorough, independent review of the incident.
Press release