A casino withdrawal that reaches a Skrill wallet has finished one clock and started another. Skrill publishes the second one — up to five business days to a bank — and the destinations it calls instant are the ones that keep the money inside the payments perimeter.
Two trade outlets carried the same sentence: 'deposit and withdraw instantly'. The operator's own help centre gives the withdrawal leg of that method up to 72 hours.
The FCA has welcomed the launch of a commercial open banking scheme built around recurring payments. It moves money from customer to business — the opposite of the journey this desk times.
Account-to-account rails keep taking share of UK gambling deposits and withdrawals. The reasons are structural, not fashionable — and they are worth counting in steps.