Visa is operating at ‘full capacity’, the company says. It comes hours after millions of customers were left unable to pay for goods.
The firm has apologised, ruling out any ‘malicious’ activity at the root of the disruption.
There were reports of ‘chaos’ at supermarket tills as customers were forced to abandon their shopping as they had no cash.
A statement on the Visa Europe website reads: Visa Europe’s payment system is now operating at full capacity, and Visa account holders can now use Visa for any of their purchases and at ATMs, as they normally would.
For around six hours on Friday, businesses across Europe were unable to process some payments made using the cards.
Visa said the fault was ‘the result of a hardware failure.’
Retailers including Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s confirmed they were affected.
Many resorted to putting up notices warning customers that they were unable to handle card payments.
