Customers of HSBC, Nationwide and Virgin Money suffered outages to their online banking services on Friday, in the latest such disruption to plague an industry which increasingly relies on such digital access as it closes physical branches.

HSBC and Virgin Money among banking customers facing pay day outages - Virgin Money and Nationwide also appeared to be experiencing issues with digital banking services on Friday.

THOUSANDS of HSBC customers have been left furious this morning after the banking app was hit with an outage According to DownDetector, over 5,000 users have reported issues with the app.

HSBC has apologised to customers after some were left locked out of their online banking on what is pay day for many workers. Virgin Money and Nationwide are also reported to be experiencing issues with digital banking services on Friday.

The problems have been compounded as Friday is the last day of the month when many people are paid by their employer

Nationwide, HSBC and Virgin Money customers have been affected by problems affecting their banking services. Nationwide said there was a "delay with some customers receiving their salary or pension payments today".

Thousands of customers with HSBC, Nationwide, Barclays and Virgin Money have been hit with problems accessing their accounts on the last working day of the month, which is payday for many workers.

Some bank customers are still waiting for payments to go through after a glitch hit several high street lenders on Friday. Thousands of people who bank with HSBC, Barclays, Nationwide and Virgin Money were told that the problem had been fixed, after an issue hit the system that operates payments between individuals and firms.

Thousands of HSBC customers were unable to access online banking services in Britain. The bank acknowledged an outage affecting some users of its website and banking app.

HSBC confirms issues with online banking while Nationwide says some customers have not received salary payments.