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A cheque ( British English) is a document that orders a bank, building society (or credit union) to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing the cheque, known as the drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing ...
Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.
Under American law, a blank cheque is an example of an " incomplete instrument " as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code 's Article 3, Section 115 (a). [1] Writing an amount in a blank cheque, without the authority of the signer, is an "alteration". [2] It is legally equivalent to changing the numbers on a completed (non-blank) cheque.
A cashier's check(or cashier's cheque, cashier's order, official check; in Canada, the term bank draftis used[1], not to be confused with Banker's draftas used in the United States) is a checkguaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own funds and signed by a bank employee.[2] Cashier's checks are treated as guaranteed funds because the bank ...
A dishonoured cheque (also spelled check) is a cheque that the bank on which it is drawn declines to pay (“honour”). There are a number of reasons why a bank might refuse to honour a cheque, with non-sufficient funds ( NSF) being the most common one, indicating that there are insufficient cleared funds in the account on which the cheque was ...
Magnetic ink character recognition code, known in short as MICR code, is a character recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to streamline the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. MICR encoding, called the MICR line, is at the bottom of cheques and other vouchers and typically includes the document-type ...
Certified check. A certified check (or certified cheque) is a form of check for which the bank verifies that sufficient funds exist in the account to cover the check, and so certifies, at the time the check is written. Those funds are then set aside in the bank's internal account until the check is cashed or returned by the payee. Thus, a ...
Cheque truncation ( check truncation in American English) is a cheque clearance system that involves the digitization of a physical paper cheque into a substitute electronic form for transmission to the paying bank. The process of cheque clearance, involving data matching and verification, is done using digital images instead of paper copies.