Earlier in the day, a Mastercard spokesman said: “We are aware of these reports and are looking into them. At this point, we can confirm that transactions continue to flow successfully across our payments network, but some additional services may be temporarily unavailable. As soon as we have additional information, we will provide an update.”
According to NatWest, only online payments are impacted; point-of-sale transactions are unaffected for bank clients.
That’s why Visa is mostly the preferred choice for the users.