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Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo (arstechnica.com)
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Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo::The Fed's goal is to connect 9,000 financial institutions nationwide.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

So in the UK we have had a standard free "instant" payment system between banks for what feels like a couple of decades now (and compatibility with the IBAN for at least half that time). Given that, how has this taken so long? What did people do before Venmo?