OREANDA-NEWS  The processing time for transactions through the Rapid Payment System (SBP) has increased due to a failure at the provider, the National Payment Card System reported.

"Due to an incident on the provider's side, we are recording an increase in the processing time for SBP transactions. We will inform you additionally when all services will start working normally again," the release says.

According to the Downdetector website, the number of complaints about the work of the SBP began to grow around 16:00 Moscow time and by 16:30 exceeded four thousand. In addition, Russians report disruptions in the work of Sberbank, T-bank, VTB, Alfa-Bank and Ozon Bank.