Around 275,000 payments likely to total hundreds of millions of pounds have been held up by a glitch in HSBC’s systems.

The fault has left many workers fuming as their salaries simply have not arrived, leaving them potentially short of funds.

While the problem does not relate to payments from banks other than HSBC, their customers will be affected by not receiving money that they expected to have been paid.

Alan Charlesworth, managing director of insurance and legal recruiter IPS Group, took to Twitter to complain: “None of my staff have been paid. HSBC, when will this be sorted?”

Another Twitter user wrote: “HSBC. None of my staff has been paid. Cannot get through on phone. Absolute shambles of a bank!”

The Scotsman