Why can’t banks make transfers and payments on the weekend when everything is digital and automated?

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At least where I live, if I make a transfer between my accounts (with different banks) too late on a Friday, the money won’t be available until Monday. But there are no humans involved in this process – it seems to me that could be instantaneous as far as the technology is concerned. What am I missing?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

They can. It is digital and automated. Here you can transfer between banks on a sunday on your bankapp in like 10 seconds.

Anonymous 0 Comments

We have 24 × 7 bank to bank transfers in India free of cost.
Any amount, any day.

So it depends on the regulations and how capable the system is.

Anonymous 0 Comments

We have 24 × 7 bank to bank transfers in India free of cost.
Any amount, any day.

So it depends on the regulations and how capable the system is.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s prob an American thing. In aus it is more or less instant between banks for more then 10 years now

Anonymous 0 Comments

We have 24 × 7 bank to bank transfers in India free of cost.
Any amount, any day.

So it depends on the regulations and how capable the system is.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s prob an American thing. In aus it is more or less instant between banks for more then 10 years now

Anonymous 0 Comments

They could if they wanted to. Some comments mention that people are needed to support those automated systems. Those people already work on weekends. It’s not like a bank turns off all computers on Friday evening and turns them back on on Monday. Those servers run 365 days a year. It actually is programmed not to send your money over the weekend. So it’s extra programming to check for days of week and holidays.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s prob an American thing. In aus it is more or less instant between banks for more then 10 years now

Anonymous 0 Comments

They could if they wanted to. Some comments mention that people are needed to support those automated systems. Those people already work on weekends. It’s not like a bank turns off all computers on Friday evening and turns them back on on Monday. Those servers run 365 days a year. It actually is programmed not to send your money over the weekend. So it’s extra programming to check for days of week and holidays.

Anonymous 0 Comments

They could if they wanted to. Some comments mention that people are needed to support those automated systems. Those people already work on weekends. It’s not like a bank turns off all computers on Friday evening and turns them back on on Monday. Those servers run 365 days a year. It actually is programmed not to send your money over the weekend. So it’s extra programming to check for days of week and holidays.