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Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a UK banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts from the three working days that transfers take using the long-established BACS system, to typically a few seconds.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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May 20, 2020  |  Faster Payments

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May 15, 2020  |  B2B Payments

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