Not to sound pedantic, but three times a day is not realtime. In the United Kingdom at least, transferring money from one bank account to another at the same ba

Not to sound pedantic, but three times a day is not realtime. In the United Kingdom at least, transferring money from one bank account to another at the same bank is instant (pretty much sub-second) transaction and from one bank account to another at a different bank is generally processed within fifteen minutes, nearly all UK banks support Faster Payments[0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service