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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by germanier on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:21PM (#16033664)
Is it still that slow? Since a few months 95% of my transactions between Germany, the Netherlands and the UK (EUR account) happen the same day. It's not like banks actually can earn interest right now anyway. If anything it costs them to hold money currently.
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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by visarga on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:12PM (#16033815)
It probably happens same day only if you send the transfer early in the morning.
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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by germanier on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:54AM (#16034064)
Yes, I forgot to mention that the cutoff now seems to be at around 2pm for most banks (it was much earlier even recently). Transfers after that usually show up on the next day but the value date is often the sending date.

I don't do transactions after 6pm or so, therefore no experience that late. All of this only applies to banking days, no transactions get processed on the weekend.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by Semaphor on Saturday December 30, 2017 @08:32AM (#16035154)
Yeah, lately my international transfers (Germany -> UK -> South Africa) have been taking less than a day all in all if I send the money before noon.
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