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You basically are.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/ach/ and https://www.swift.com handle much of the US, and it's a system developed in the 70s (or earlier) and it works.

It could be modernized and things like https://explore.fednow.org are trying to do that.

But the problems involved are not things a blockchain would secure because there's a trusted intermediary which can just run a database.




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