Summary: The Federal Reserve Bank announced plans to create a real-time payment system to make check-cashing and other transactions faster. It would be an upgrade from the current Fed system which is slow to settle a transaction and would be run like a utility. It would also compete with a network recently launched by six big banks called The Clearing House. Critics say the Fed system would be redundant and would interfere with the private sector effort that’s already underway. www.NewsForInvestors.com
