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Western Union launched the first "wire" transfer by piggybacking on its existing telegraph technology to send financial code instead of just news.

Muslim traders developed the sakk , a formalized IOU that allowed them to buy goods without carrying heavy metal coins across sparse settlements. This is the root of the modern word "check." transfer money

In earlier centuries, money didn't move; instructions did. Trusted couriers and even carried messages across borders to trigger payments. Western Union launched the first "wire" transfer by