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# Evening Scan
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-10-20-pm/
- Published: 2026-10-20T23:19:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-20T23:19:05.000Z
- Description: A Google Cloud zone in London went down and took a chunk of UK banking and logistics with it. The kind of outage nobody plans for.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

A Google Cloud zone in London went down and took a chunk of UK banking and logistics with it. The kind of outage nobody plans for.

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#### [Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted](https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/20/google-clouds-london-zones-takes-a-nap-multiple-services-disrupted/5304084?ref=adjacent.media)

Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail and Revolut all went offline when europe-west2-b failed, with "no workarounds for now" and no recovery time in sight. *(The Register)*

#### [Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ant-backed-fintech-mynt-rises-in-debut-after-philippines-largest-ipo-de6a772d?st=rrtwM3&reflink=desktopwebshare%5Fpermalink&ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

A roughly $7B valuation and a modest first-day gain. A modest win in a week when IPO news has turned gloomy. *(Wall Street Journal)*

#### [Larry Page could dodge nearly $15 billion in taxes after leaving California and spending $173 million on a Miami compound](https://fortune.com/2026/10/20/larry-page-left-california-before-its-billionaire-tax-cutoff-and-spent-173-million-on-miami-mansions-hed-avoid-nearly-15-billion-if-it-passes/?ref=adjacent.media)

Prop 40's one-time 5% billionaire tax goes to a vote in a couple of weeks. The timing of exits is notable. *(Fortune)*

> “No workarounds for now.” — *The Register, on Google Cloud's europe-west2-b outage*