Banks serving as guinea pigs for Federal Reserve’s instant payments system
arstechnica.com
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  • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Here in the US it’s only instant if it’s coming out of your account.

    If it’s coming out of the bank’s account

    Can you please explain the difference here, because that doesn’t make sense to me. When am I ever transferring money out of the banks account instead of mine?

    • abort_christian_babies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      My comment was worded in an intentionally inflammatory way for sarcasm and humor. Poking fun at this pester charging for everything culture.

      To answer your question though.

      The point of view of the leveraging bank money, a loan, credit, refund.

      To be fair, general banking has gotten a lot faster in both directions. So my snark is marginal at best.

      • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ah ok, all good. I guess it’s showing how bad the state of affairs is with payments in the USA when I had to ask that question haha.