How long to transfer £1000 thru faster payment?

johncolescarr

I transferred £1000 from A&L to Halifax accounts, both operate FP. I have previously been doing this between A&L and first direct (up to £800) and its been going instantly!!

I need this payment to go through in at least 3 days to stop me going overdrawn

Thanks in advance

John

nzseries1

Faster Payments gets the payment to its destination in 2 hours or less.

It's possible though that A+L didn't use faster payments in this instance, and unfortunately with A+L it's impossible to tell if any particular payment used faster payments or not!

Even if FP isn't used, it will take 3 working days max to go through.

johncolescarr

nzseries1 wrote: »

Faster Payments gets the payment to its destination in 2 hours or less.

It's possible though that A+L didn't use faster payments in this instance, and unfortunately with A+L it's impossible to tell if any particular payment used faster payments or not!

Even if FP isn't used, it will take 3 working days max to go through.

Thanks,

Just phoned A&L for the first time, was put off because of the horror stories, but I was put through to an advisor really quickly and they even offered to arrange for a higher paying savings account (their own of course, but I wouldn't expect them to give business away).

However, the payment didnt go as a FP, no reason given, I guess its part of their customer policy, really temped to go back to First Direct if it wasnt for 0% interest