The whole EU already has SEPA Instant Payments which allow the transfer of up to 100.000€ per transaction in under 3 seconds.
This law is just about making it Default
And free if I remember correctly. I never used it because my bank was like “Fees might apply”. Trying to figure out which fees and how much was pretty much impossible.
In Greece is 4-6€ per transaction for every 100€😊 (now we have created the interbanking system called IRIS which you can send money to an IBAN linked with your phone number for free)
From the central bank at slightly above policy interest rates. Cutting out as many middlemen as possible should be imperative for our age of technology.
That is until we have gotten rid of the central banking system …
The whole EU already has SEPA Instant Payments which allow the transfer of up to 100.000€ per transaction in under 3 seconds. This law is just about making it Default
And free if I remember correctly. I never used it because my bank was like “Fees might apply”. Trying to figure out which fees and how much was pretty much impossible.
In Germany it’s generally 1€ per transaction 🤡
In Greece is 4-6€ per transaction for every 100€😊 (now we have created the interbanking system called IRIS which you can send money to an IBAN linked with your phone number for free)
I can’t wait for the day when consumers can cut banks out of their lives.
How would you get loans without banks?
From the central bank at slightly above policy interest rates. Cutting out as many middlemen as possible should be imperative for our age of technology.
That is until we have gotten rid of the central banking system …
Nope. It’s not. My Sparkasse charges nothing
That’s rather the exception than the norm. All my banks charge 1€. All Sparkassen I researched you pay at least something:
https://www.sskm.de/de/home/service/echtzeit-ueberweisung.html
There it is 0.75€
Here it is of my Sparkasse, 0€
Don’t doubt that but as I said, this is the exception rather than the norm.
Sparda Bank Berlin also allow free real-time transactions.
Sparda Bank Hamburg however does not.
This is so weird.
This is the least weird aspect about the Sparkassen system. They served their purpose but are being obsolete these days.
That’s a shame