Read previewMajor banks worldwide are scrambling to fix issues resulting from a global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike software update. British banks Santander and Metro Bank said they were impacted by Friday's outage, which affected their ATM services. "Along with many other organizations, we have been affected by the reported global IT outage," Metro Bank told Business Insider. According to the New Zealand Herald, some banking services in New Zealand were also disrupted, as was South Africa's Capitec, per Bloomberg. Some social media users posted about being unable to access banking services, which they said highlighted the importance of cash.

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