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The Federal Reserve has already launched a small test of near-instantaneous financial transactions. Every time they talk about payments as a future feature of X/Twitter, I wonder if they know that’s getting Sherlocked.

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[–] TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Depends on how you look at it. According to the article, FedNow is more expensive than automatic clearing house. 4 cents vs half a cent. But if FedNow is competing with Venmo and Paypal, they charge a lot more than the Fed's $0.04. That's also cheaper than what the credit card companies charge businesses.

[–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

The banks might choose to make it costly. The fed charges 4 cents per transaction. Ultimately, if your bank charges 25 cents and my bank charges 4 cents, I'll just decline to use your bank for FedNow