--- title: How Banks Actually Move Your Money (It's Not What You Think) description: Payment systems between banks rely on netting and trust rather than real-time money movement, with central banks acting as final settlement authorities.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-banks-actually-move-your-money-it-s-not-what-you-think--oj5carzdw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Banks Actually Move Your Money (It's Not What You Think) | daily.dev og:description: Payment systems between banks rely on netting and trust rather than real-time money movement, with central banks acting as final settlement authorities.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-banks-actually-move-your-money-it-s-not-what-you-think--oj5carzdw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Oj5CARzdw.png og:image:alt: How Banks Actually Move Your Money (It's Not What You Think) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Banks Actually Move Your Money (It's Not What You Think) **[ByteMonk](https://daily.dev/sources/bytemonk)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Payment systems between banks rely on netting and trust rather than real-time money movement, with central banks acting as final settlement authorities. Multiple payment rails (card, batch/ACH, RTGS, real-time like UPI) serve different speed and cost tradeoffs. The deeper security challenge is access control: long-lived credentials to sensitive financial systems are a major attack vector. The solution is identity-based, zero-standing-privilege access — short-lived certificates tied to verified identities, with full session recording for regulatory compliance. The video is sponsored by Teleport, which implements this model for engineers, automated scripts, and AI agents accessing banking infrastructure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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