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As of 17:31 PT, Marqeta engineers detected an issue causing STIPs and transaction declines. There is no longer any active impact. Marqeta engineers have engaged an upstream infrastructure vendor to investigate. We will update this page again upon any substantial change in status.

As of 17:31 PT, Marqeta engineers detected an issue causing STIPs and transaction declines. There is no longer any active impact. Marqeta engineers have engaged an upstream infrastructure vendor to investigate. We will continue to press the vendor for their investigation and will continue monitoring throughout the weekend.

On Saturday, September 26, 2026. Marqeta detected an issue affecting stand-in transaction processing (STIPs) and transaction declines with impact start time at approximately 5:31 PM PT. We immediately engaged our upstream infrastructure provider, who identified the root cause and applied a fix, restoring full connectivity by approximately 6:00 PM PT that same evening. Marqeta engineers continued monitoring systems closely throughout the weekend to confirm stability, and we observed normal transaction processing with no recurrence of the issue. This incident is now resolved. We appreciate your patience throughout this incident.

On Friday, September 25, 2026, at approximately 11:33 PT (18:33 UTC), Marqeta engineers detected an issue affecting transaction authorizations processed via network Stand-In on Visa. Our team is actively investigating the root cause and assessing the full scope of impact. A follow-up notification with more detail will be sent within 30 minutes.

On Friday, September 25, 2026, at approximately 11:33 PT (18:33 UTC), Marqeta engineers detected an issue affecting transaction authorizations processed via network Stand-In on Visa and Pulse. There is no ongoing impact at this time, however our team is actively investigating the root cause and assessing the full scope of the impact. We will update this page again upon any substantial change in status.

On Friday, September 25, 2026, at approximately 11:33 PT (18:33 UTC), Marqeta engineers detected an issue affecting transaction authorizations processed via network Stand-In on Visa and Pulse. There is no impact at this time. Engineers have put mitigations into place and will continue to monitor over the weekend.

On Thursday, September 24, 2026, at approximately 13:07 PT (20:07 UTC), Marqeta was notified of an issue causing some transactions approved or declined by network stand-in. Our team is actively investigating the root cause and assessing the full scope of impact. A follow-up notification with more detail will be sent within 30 minutes. We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this as quickly as possible.

The issue affecting card transactions routed to Mastercard network stand-in processing remains ongoing. This may cause some transactions to be approved or declined by network stand-in. Currently Marqeta engineers are engaging Mastercard directly and investigating the elevated stand-in processing rate. We will update you again in 30 minutes.

The issue affecting card transactions routed to Mastercard network stand-in processing remains ongoing. This may cause some transactions to be approved or declined by network stand-in. Currently Marqeta engineers are continuing to engage Mastercard directly to investigate the elevated stand-in processing rate. We will update you again in 30 minutes.

The issue affecting card transactions routed to Mastercard network stand-in processing remains ongoing. This may cause some transactions to be approved or declined by network stand-in. Currently Marqeta engineers are continuing to engage Mastercard directly to investigate the elevated stand-in processing rate. We will update you again in 30 minutes.

The investigation into card transactions routed to Mastercard network stand-in processing is ongoing. This may have cause some transactions to be approved or declined by network stand-in. There is currently no impact, however Marqeta engineers are continuing to engage Mastercard directly to investigate. We will update this space again upon any substantial change in status.

Transaction volumes have returned to normal levels, and there is currently no customer impact. Mastercard has confirmed a network-side anomaly and their teams are actively investigating the root cause. Marqeta engineers continue to monitor systems closely while awaiting Mastercard's final technical findings before fully resolving the incident.

On Thursday, September 24, 2026, at approximately 13:07 PT (20:07 UTC) Marqeta identified an issue affecting card transactions processed through Mastercard, in which a number of transactions across several Mastercard programs were declined or handled through the network's stand-in processing. Transaction volumes and processing patterns have returned to normal baseline levels, and we conducted a monitoring period to confirm long term stability. Mastercard has acknowledged the anomaly on their network and is continuing to investigate the underlying root cause; Marqeta will incorporate any further findings once Mastercard's analysis is complete. We appreciate your patience throughout this incident.

On Monday, September 21, 2026, at approximately 03:56 PT (10:56 UTC), Marqeta was notified of an issue affecting duplicate clearing transaction processing and settlement reconciliation on Visa. This may cause delays in clearing and settlement posting and transaction reconciliation for impacted programs. Currently Marqeta engineers are remediating the 11,000 duplicate Visa clearings held in transaction management. We will update you again in 60 minutes.

On Monday, September 21, 2026, at approximately 03:56 PT (10:56 UTC), Marqeta was notified of an issue affecting duplicate clearing transaction processing and settlement reconciliation on Visa. This may cause delays in clearing and settlement posting and transaction reconciliation for impacted programs from transactions on September 18th. Currently Marqeta engineers are remediating the 11,000 duplicate Visa clearings held in transaction management. We will update you again in 60 minutes.

On Monday, September 21, 2026, at approximately 03:56 PT (10:56 UTC), Marqeta was notified of an issue affecting duplicate clearing transaction processing and settlement reconciliation on Visa. This may cause delays in clearing and settlement posting and transaction reconciliation for impacted programs from transactions on September 18th. Currently Marqeta engineers are continuing to remediate the 11,000 duplicate Visa clearings held in transaction management. We will update this page again upon any substantial change in the status of the incident.

Marqeta engineers, in coordination with Visa, have identified and verified the resolution steps for the duplicate clearing transaction issue affecting September 18th transactions. Engineering teams are currently finalizing the remaining transaction exception processing. We anticipate transaction postings and settlement reconciliations will be fully remediated for all impacted programs by tomorrow. We will provide a final update once full resolution is confirmed.

Marqeta engineers, in coordination with Visa, have completed remediation of the duplicate clearing transaction issue affecting September 18th transactions. All impacted transaction exceptions have been processed, with the final set of transactions confirmed posted at approximately 02:20 PT this morning. Settlement reconciliation has been completed for all affected programs. Following a monitoring period to confirm the stability of the resolution, we can confirm this issue is now fully resolved and no further customer action is required. We appreciate your patience throughout this process.

On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at approximately 08:55 PT (15:55 UTC), Marqeta engineers detected an issue affecting Google Pay token provisioning for Mastercard and Visa cards. Our team is actively investigating the root cause and assessing the full scope of impact. A follow-up notification with more detail will be sent within 30 minutes.

On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at approximately 08:55 PT (15:55 UTC), Marqeta engineers detected an issue affecting Google Pay token provisioning for Mastercard and Visa cards. Google has acknowledged an outage in their API and we are tracking its progress. We will update this page again upon any notable change.

Google has confirmed their outage is resolved, and Marqeta engineers have observed Google Pay token provisioning has returned to normal operation.