Barclays bank customers have been warned to be vigilant after the issues left people struggling to access up-to-date figures

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.

And on the evening of Monday, February 3, CEO of Barclays UK, Vim Maru, sent out an email to customers. He apologised for the issue and admitted that it took 'longer than we hoped' to fix.

Barclays customers have been left stranded abroad and say they have even unable to buy food for newborn babies as a major IT outage entered its second day.

Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert team has issued advice to Barclays customers who have been left out of pocket