Comments on: a month to get citibank to pay itself http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/09/a-month-to-get-citibank-to-pay-itself/ Why don't you go outside and play with the three dimensional people? Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:04:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: SDJ http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/09/a-month-to-get-citibank-to-pay-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-225 SDJ Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:39:00 +0000 http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/09/a-month-to-get-citibank-to-pay-itself/#comment-225 Hmmm "all automated one-time click and you are done"...<br/><br/>Actually, despite the marketing, "e"bill payments in the US generally seem to involve (i) you entering the data via a web interface (ii) the bank staff manually re-keying the data into the interbank funds transfer system and (iii) the money then being transferred to the payee's bank. I guess it's because there are so many banks.<br/><br/>Of course, that shouldn't excuse intra-bank transfers, though some groups do keep their businesses on separate IT platforms. Hmmm “all automated one-time click and you are done”…

Actually, despite the marketing, “e”bill payments in the US generally seem to involve (i) you entering the data via a web interface (ii) the bank staff manually re-keying the data into the interbank funds transfer system and (iii) the money then being transferred to the payee’s bank. I guess it’s because there are so many banks.

Of course, that shouldn’t excuse intra-bank transfers, though some groups do keep their businesses on separate IT platforms.

]]> By: Stephen Johnston http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/09/a-month-to-get-citibank-to-pay-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Stephen Johnston Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000 http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/09/a-month-to-get-citibank-to-pay-itself/#comment-224 yes, thanks katherine. am sure these things exist and do work fine, but it just seems so much harder to set up than direct debits back in uk, which seemed to only require a nod of the head to authorize. just a question of getting used to i guess. yes, thanks katherine. am sure these things exist and do work fine, but it just seems so much harder to set up than direct debits back in uk, which seemed to only require a nod of the head to authorize. just a question of getting used to i guess.

]]> By: Anonymous http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/09/a-month-to-get-citibank-to-pay-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Anonymous Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:36:00 +0000 http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/09/a-month-to-get-citibank-to-pay-itself/#comment-223 Hi there,<br/><br/>Welcome to the US... You know, there is such a thing as e-bills and most banks/checking accounts in US offer that - all setup on internet, no paperwork, all automated one-time click and you are done... Just the way you like it - surprised you don't know about that...<br/><br/>katherine Hi there,

Welcome to the US… You know, there is such a thing as e-bills and most banks/checking accounts in US offer that – all setup on internet, no paperwork, all automated one-time click and you are done… Just the way you like it – surprised you don’t know about that…

katherine

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