As a result, players can access our games from areas of poor financial infrastructure, or can play exciting high stakes games quickly without waiting for a bank wire transfer to be processed.

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Cash could be put into the service using a credit card, bank wire, postal money order or other money transfer service.

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But even banks that claim to comply with it now, such as Britain's NatWest and Germany's Deutsche Bank, say they cannot guarantee a transfer time of less than six days for most payments by wire.

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