After the outage that affected crypto exchanges, FedWire is back online.

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The U.S. Federal Reserve has restored central bank money access to its real-time settlement system.

Wire transfers that were in the process of being resolved or already in the queue were affected by the outage. Cryptocurrency exchanges, including Gemini, Kraken and Coinbase, saw delays in some transactions during the outage. Those issues should now be fixed.

"In an updated note, the central bank wrote, "The Fedwire Funds Service, Fedwire Securities Service, and National Settlement Service have resumed processing and are operating normally. The Federal Reserve Banks have taken steps to help ensure the resilience, including recovery to the point of failure, of the Fedwire and NSS applications.'

It is very rare for bankers to experience this type of failure.

Perhaps it has happened to us twice in 11 years," said Steve Schnall, CEO of Quontic Bank, based in Manhattan."

For Quontic, during the downtime, a separate banker's bank with direct access to the Fed was able to handle his wires, Schnall said.

"Schnall said, "I'm not sure if many or all have such a relationship. "Larger banks would not need [the correspondent bank] because they usually have direct access to the Fed."

Source: Bityard