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by IgorPartola 1061 days ago
Basically you know how you can ACH payments from your account to someone else’s and back but it only happens the next morning as long as the next morning is a business day? Now it would happen instantly on any day.
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ACH has had same day payments since 2016. If your bank takes until "next morning" then that's your bank's problem, not ACH's.

https://www.nacha.org/resource-landing/same-day-ach-resource...

That said, FedNow is still an improvement over ACH. ACH is fundamentally batch-based processing, they just run the batch multiple times per day now. And all the batch times are East Coast biased, so people on the West Coast get worse service.