Well, not just that bit. It's pretty general in the UK nowadays that you can ring up your bank and do a transfer to someone else's account, even at another bank, for free and (I'm fairly sure) same-day. Online too, though for anti-fraud reasons the bank I use will only let you do online transfers to accounts you've done transfers to before, so the first one has to be by phone banking.

On the other hand I've never heard of direct deposit to more than one account, though maybe that's something people don't need over here because inter-account transfers are so easy.

Peter