Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers

Barclays Bank is wrestling with some digital gremlins affecting its corporate banking services this Friday the 13th of June – the final day of the working week for many of us, but perhaps not the poor techies beavering away to restore normal play.

According to online outage overseer Down Detector, reports of wobbly web services began to flood in just before 8am UTC, though fewer customers are now complaining.

That said, Barclays admitted its iPortal and Barclays.Net are still out of action, meaning it is definitely an unlucky time – for some at least – to be a Barclays customer.

"We're sorry if you're having problems viewing balances, transactions, and reports in Barclays.Net right now – we're urgently working to fix it," the bank's status page says.

The iPortal is a centralized platform that lets customers access a multitude of Barclays Corporate Banking digital services, such as Barclays ...