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

20 October 2026 · By · Wire by Fusion42

Published

20 October 2026

Topic

technology

◆ Sectors

Fintech

◆ Geography

United Kingdom

◆ Source

Read at businessinsider.com →

◆ Verified

Fusion42 · 20 October 2026 · Fusion42 review

Google Cloud experienced a significant outage in its europe-west2 region affecting London-based services, causing disruptions in several UK banking apps including Revolut, Halifax, and Emma, which prevented users from performing banking transactions.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Fintech, and 35 sources have reported it between 20 Oct 2026 and 26 Oct 2026.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

Your UK fintech service relying on Google Cloud or similar providers just saw how single-region outages stop customer payments and logins. You must plan failover or diversify cloud dependencies to avoid losing users instantly when major cloud platforms fail.

◆ Coverage

35 sources · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · latest 26 Oct 2026

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Fintechgoogle-cloudoutagefintech-disruptionukbanking-apps