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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.
Deposit slip. A deposit slip or a pay-in-slip is a form supplied by a bank for a depositor to fill out, designed to document in categories the items included in the deposit transaction when physically depositing at a bank. The categories include type of item, and if it is a cheque or cash and which bank it is from, such as a local bank or not.
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 ...
A crossed cheque generally is a cheque that only bears two parallel transverse lines, optionally with the words 'and company' or '& Co.' (or any abbreviation of them) [clarification needed] on the face of the cheque, between the lines, usually at the top left corner or at any place in the approximate half (in width) of the cheque. [2] In the UK ...
A banker's draft (also called a bank cheque, bank draft in Canada or, in the US, a teller's check) is a cheque (or check) provided to a customer of a bank or acquired from a bank for remittance purposes, that is drawn by the bank, and drawn on another bank or payable through or at a bank. [ 1 ] In Canada, the term "bank draft" includes both ...
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.