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Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by snuxoll on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @07:50PM (#10550549)
Amusingly enough, Wells Fargo has a similar service called SurePay. I have a friend that also banks with Wells Fargo that uses this to transfer funds to be, while it's 'fast' compared to the multi-day delay of ACH transfers it still takes one day before the funds are made available to me - from another customer at the same bank!

It amazes me that we already have four major payment networks in the US that work at the speed of the internet - Visa, MasterCard, Discover and Amex but banks continue to fight to keep ACH slow - probably because they don't make bank on interchange fees.

Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by joe5150 on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @10:08PM (#10551057)
Banks use the float caused by check processing and transfer delays as investable funds. They have no real incentive to speed up the process, and most measures to reduce delays have come in the form of regulations.