LONDON (Reuters) -British banks Lloyds and Barclays on Monday apologised to customers who suffered service outages over the past 48 hours, the latest in a string of such disruptions in recent years as lenders push their customers to bank online.

Lloyds Bank and Halifax customers reported issues with payments on Monday morning, in the latest service issue to hit the sector.

LLOYDS, Halifax and Bank of Scotland online banking went down as customers complained of missing payments and wages. Hundreds of customers were reporting issues via the Downdetector platform,

Britain's Lloyds Banking Group said on Monday that some of its customers were affected by an outage preventing them from making or receiving payments, after hundreds of customers reported problems with the service.

Both banks have confirmed customer issues ‘making and or receiving payments’ and said they were working ‘to have everything back to normal’.

Customers started experiencing issues with the Lloyds and Halifax banking services at around 7am this morning.

It comes after many Barclays customers were affected by an outage that affected payments for nearly three days

Lloyds Bank and Halifax customers have become the latest to be hit by problems with their banking app after issues with Barclays over the weekend. Customers of both companies – which are both part of the Lloyds Banking Group – reported issues with their banking apps this morning,