- The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 20, 2026

A Google Cloud outage early Tuesday forced several banks in the United Kingdom and London offline.

British banks including HSBC, Revolut, Halifax and Lloyds were affected by the outage that appears to have extended beyond Britain, although it is unconfirmed whether they are connected.

Google Cloud said the outage was first reported around 6 a.m. in London, which is the center of the outage.

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The company said it would provide an update by 8 a.m. Eastern time.

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