SWIFT is performing a Cold Start maintenance this weekend on Sunday 25th October. The indication is this will be completed by 11:00am, so to give a buffer for any delays normal processing flows should be able to resume from noon (12:00pm NZDT). The outage will delay domestic payments from one bank to another within the specific period. Payments between accounts held at BNZ are unaffected.
Posted Oct 23, 2026 - 14:47 NZDT
This incident affected: Payments (Domestic payments, Processing payment files).