Availability of Payment Services
Availability of Payment Services to Individuals and Businesses Provided by Virgin Money
Selected Services; Q3 2024
Payment Service |
Service availability % |
Significant outages due to problems at Virgin Money (in hours:minutes) |
Significant outages due to problems at system-wide infrastructure or natural disasters (in hours:minutes) |
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Withdraw/deposit cash at an ATM |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Transact over- the-counter in a branch |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Make card payments (cardholders) |
100.00 |
0:00 |
0:00 |
Accept card payments (businesses) |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Access accounts using online banking (web browser or mobile device app) |
99.56 |
0:59 |
8:33 |
Make/receive account transfers – fast payments |
100.00 |
0:00 |
0:00 |
Make/receive account transfers – next business day |
99.73 |
0:00 |
2:30 |
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Description of services and metrics
Service availability % |
The actual amount of time that the service is not experiencing a significant outage, as a proportion of the amount of time during which the service was planned to be available in the quarter. Planned available time excludes planned outages (e.g. for system maintenance). |
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Significant outage |
Unplanned unavailability of a service that meets minimum thresholds for duration and the proportion of customers affected. |
System-wide infrastructures |
Includes payment systems provided by the RBA, card schemes and other central payment system infrastructure; electricity network; and provider of telecommunications network links to Virgin Money’s operating or data centres. |
Withdraw/deposit cash at ATM |
Not applicable |
Transact over-the-counter at a branch |
Not applicable |
Make card payments (cardholders) |
Ability to use a Virgin Money branded debit, prepaid or credit card to make a payment either in-store, on a mobile device (e.g. through an app) or online.Outages exclude problems with the business’ payments acceptance device or payments provider, or a customer’s mobile device. |
Accept card payments (businesses) |
Not applicable |
Access accounts using online banking (web browser or mobile device app) |
Ability to log in, transfer between own accounts at Virgin Money, initiate payments and/or view accurate and up to date account information. Excludes the ability to process payments, which is covered in ‘make/receive account transfers - fast payments’ and ‘make/receive account transfers - next business day’. |
Make/receive account transfers – fast payments |
Ability of Virgin Money to process fast bank account transfers. This includes account-toaccount transfers (Pay Anyone) to a PayID, and other one-off or scheduled payments (for example, direct debits and payroll payments by businesses) made through NPP/Osko. Outages exclude the inability for customers to initiate transfers due to unavailability of web or app banking channels, or a branch. |
Make/receive account transfers – next business day |
Ability of Virgin Money to process bank account transfers, with funds becoming available to the recipient on the next business day or later. Includes account-to- account transfers (Pay Anyone) and scheduled payments (for example, direct debits, and payroll payments by businesses) not made as fast payments through NPP/Osko, and BPAY payments. Outages exclude the inability to initiate payments due to unavailability of web or app banking channels, or a branch. |
For detailed information on the compilation of the disclosure data, see https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/resources/pdf/reliability-disclosures.pdf