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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Barclays does same day between its own accounts. However, they
have recently had to add delays in some cases because of increasing
electronic banking fraud. IIRC, this is typically triggered by
transfers into accounts which are not known to be routinely used
for payments. The object is to prevent transfered money becoming
quickly untracable (e.g. being cashed) before the transfer can be
investigated and found to be fraudulent.

I recently wanted to buy some relatively low cost electronics from Sweden.
The firm was small, and didn't take credit cards.
Not possible to do an electronic transfer from Barclays, and a cheque
would have been too costly. I eventually sent cash in the form of Euros.
So much for progress.

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