How do all the different banks know the money they receive in transfers actually exist since everything is digital?

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How do all the different banks know the money they receive in transfers actually exist since everything is digital?

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The inter-bank transfers are performed using trusted platforms. They don’t just take random emails from anywhere saying “Bank A sent $eleventy-billion to your account C, let them have that money”.

Lots of digital (cryptographic) signatures around to make sure everything checks out too.

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