• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I learned recently FedNow is a payment processor ran by the Federal Reserve, with a fee of $0.043 per transaction. Making it much, much cheaper than every other payment processor out there.

    It just launched two years ago; I’m wondering if this might become more of a thing moving forward for digital payments.

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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      21 hours ago

      It’s also a heck of a lot quicker to process, (effectively instant) and works even on holidays.

      And of course, banks like Bank of America, Capital One, and tons of other financial institutions simply refuse to use it, because that would mean spending money on changing their infrastructure, and making it more convenient for people to also use accounts outside of theirs.

      Seriously, it’s been ages, and they’ve refused to use it at all, even though it’s purely a financial and technical upside for every user once it’s implemented.