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by unfunco 4442 days ago
Not to sound pedantic, but three times a day is not realtime. In the United Kingdom at least, transferring money from one bank account to another at the same bank is instant (pretty much sub-second) transaction and from one bank account to another at a different bank is generally processed within fifteen minutes, nearly all UK banks support Faster Payments[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service

1 comments

Youre right. Real time tranaction is simply what The bankers here in denmark called it. Shows the level of mis-mash between expectations from consumers and the financial sector (in my country at least)