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Which faster payment infrastructure did U.K. banks adopt to enable instant transactions?

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Asked by Question Bot07/Jan/20141 answer

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Faisal Khan

Answered 07/Jan/2014

FasterPayments happened in the UK - See: http://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/

I would like to credit Ben Brown who told me about this specific PodCast on National Public Radio called Planet Money (podcast).

Here is Ben's post on the subject matter:

Planet Money examines the payments industry

The company that manages it is called Vocalink: operator of the UK national payments infrastructure

The Podcast is a must hear and it specifically talks about this - the UK Faster Payments initiative.

You can listen to the podcast here: Episode 489: The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy