Want to pay your bill Friday night? Too bad, the transaction will go through Monday morning.
In 2024, why, its not like someone manually moves money.
EDIT: I am not talking about BRANCH working hours, I am talking about time it takes for transactions to go through.
EDIT 2:
I am NOT talking about send money to friends type of transactions. I’m talking about example: our company once fcked up payroll (due Friday) and they said: either the transaction will go through Saturday morning our you will have to wait till Monday. Idk if it has to do something with direct debit or smth else. (No it was not because accountant was not working weekend)
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It’s a US Thing.
A better interbank payment system needs to be govt or reserve Bank driven. But, that counts as govt overreaching in US. And banks will lobby to fight it because they want to charge money for transfers.
In other countries, reserve Banks are more free to allow 24×7 free digital bank transfer across banks because it makes e commerce simpler and easier. Economy grows by it.
In US, Visa, MasterCard, amex work as cartel to monopolize card payment methods. Or you have paypal or various cashapps which work as wallet. All of that will go away if you had free bank transfer system run by federal reserve Bank.
In India, for example. Reserve Bank says you need to support round the clock settlements and banks have to comply. Because reserve Bank is running the interbank network and individual banks can’t mess with reserve Bank.
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