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LSEG Group, which runs the London Stock Exchange, said its
Workspace news and data platform suffered an outagethat affected
users worldwide due to a "third-party global technical issue".
The European Energy Exchange said in an internal memo seen by
Reuters that clients using the Trayport power and gas trading
platform were having problems to trade "due to infrastructure
issues with third-party service provider".
At least six trading sources at oil majors Shell and BP as well
as trading house Vitol said operations were affected. BP, Shell
and Vitol did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
"We are having the mother of all global market outages," one
trader said.
"People can't switch their computers on after restarts. Those
who didn't restart are doing fine," another trader said.
German banks are facing disruptions, a spokesperson for the
Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft financial industry association said.
South Africa's Capitec Bank said card payments, ATM and App
services had been fully restored after experiencing significant
disruptions.
Major banks JPMorgan, HSBC, Goldman Sachs and Barclays did not
immediately respond to requests for comments.
Besides the financial sector, the outages rippled far and wide,
with major U.S. airlines ordering ground stops on Friday.
It was not immediately clear whether the call to keep flights
from taking off were related to an earlier Microsoft cloud
outage.
The Australian government said the outage appeared to be linked
to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.
(Reporting by Reuters staff; Writing by Dmitry Zhdannikov;
Editing by Arun Koyyur)
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