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.

Both Lloyds Bank and Halifax have confirmed system issues, as users of both banks - part of the Lloyds Banking Group - reported problems with their banking apps, including difficulties making and receiving payments. It follows a major outage at Barclays on Friday (January 31), which extended into the weekend.

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.

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

Many banking customers have been affected by IT glitches in recent days, leading to frustrations for some people as well as the possibility of being left out of pocket. Customers of Lloyds Banking Group,

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,

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