From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 08:25:16 +0800
To: Vincent Cate <vince@offshore.com.ai>
Subject: Re: FC97 in July Wired
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At 7:39 pm -0400 on 6/8/97, Vincent Cate wrote:


> It is 30 working days, and we never have enough holidays to make that 90
> days.  Local checks clear in 1 day.  How fast do your local checks
> clear?  :-)

ACK! I meant "foriegn" checks. As for the 60-day variance, I plead
innumeracy. (What? Philosophy majors are supposed to *count*, too?). ;-).

OTOH, maybe 30 days just *seems* like 90 when you're waiting for it. :-).

Anyway, 30 days or 90, I bet FSTC-check/ACH gateways <http://www.fstc.org/>
are going to be *real* popular in places like Anguilla someday. Almost as
popular as those call-back services are now...

You can't regulate the arbitrage.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga



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