The Federal Reserve launched a new instant payment service Thursday.
and credit unions that are already signed up to the service. However, it might take longer for customers to be able to use the service with their bank.FedNow offers instant payment services for banks and credit unions to transfer money for their customers. Unlike other private money-transferring services like PayPal or Venmo, FedNow services are not offered to customers directly through a third-party app or website. The services will only be available through banks or credit unions.
Once a bank offers the FedNow services, customers will be able to send money instantly. The service is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.WHY DID THE FED CREATE FEDNOW? to make it quicker and more accessible for people to send and receive online payments. The Fed is also catching up with other countries that already have real-time payment systems like FedNow, including England, China, Sweden and India.
If you forgot to pay your rent until the last minute, you will be able to send the money late at night without waiting to have it cleared the next business day.FedNow is now live but it might take months or years for customers to be able to use this service, it all depends on when your bank makes it available.
Zelle lets you send and receive money instantly but the money might not be available for customers until days after the transaction. With FedNow, the Fed says the money will be available within minutes. Zelle has a customer-facing platform that allows customers to send money through their app while FedNow will not directly interact with customers but rather offer the services to banks.
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