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Payment network · RTGS · United States
Fedwire Funds Service
The Federal Reserve's real-time gross settlement system for large-value US dollar transfers between account-holding institutions, with immediate finality in central bank money. Its origins trace to the Fed's telegraph-based transfer network of 1918.
- Type
- RTGS
- Operator
- Federal Reserve Banks
- Region
- United States
- Currency
- USD
- Launched
- 1918
- Settlement model
- real-time gross
- Website
- www.frbservices.org
Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.
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