Citigroup resolves 'technical issue' that left accounts frozen

Citigroup resolves 'technical issue' that left accounts frozen

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Customers had taken to social media to complain about the outage, which affected several U.S. states, including New York, Pennsylvania and California, according to Bloomberg.

"We experienced a brief technical issue that is now resolved," Citigroup's customer service Twitter account said in response.

Bloomberg reported the news of the outage first.

A Bloomberg reporter spoke with four people at a bank branch on Manhattan's Upper East Side who said debit cards did not work at the ATM there. (http://bloom.bg/296tSVr)

Citigroup was not immediately available for further comment.

The bank's shares had closed down 9.4 percent at $40.30 on Friday, as Britain's vote to exit the European Union sparked the biggest global financial shock since the 2008 crisis.

(Reporting by Anya George Tharakan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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