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A traveller's cheque [a] is a medium of exchange that can be used in place of hard currency. They can be denominated in one of a number of major world currencies and are preprinted, fixed-amount cheques designed to allow the person signing it to make an unconditional payment to someone else as a result of having paid the issuer for that privilege.
If a cheque is dishonoured for any reason, the bank on which it is drawn must promptly return the cheque to the depositor's (payee's) bank, which will ultimately return it to the depositor. The depositor's bank will debit the amount of the cheque from the depositor's account into which it had been deposited, as well as a service fee.
ANZ's arm in New Zealand is operated through a subsidiary company, ANZ National Bank, from 2003 to 2012, when it changed by ANZ Bank New Zealand upon merging the ANZ and National Bank brands. In March 2005, it formed a strategic alliance with Vietnam's Sacombank involving an acquisition of 10% of Sacombank's share capital .
ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited (or simply ANZ) is a New Zealand banking and financial services company, which operates as a subsidiary of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited of Australia. ANZ is one of New Zealand's big four banks, and is the largest bank in New Zealand with approximately 30% of market share as of March 2021. [5]
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.
In 1989, five years after it acquired Grindlays, ANZ changed Grindlays' name to ANZ Grindlays Bank and transferred its domicile (requiring an Act of Parliament) [12] to Australia in 1995. In 1993, ANZ Grindlays sold its African operations to Standard Bank Investment Corporation (Stanbic) , which was the holding company for Standard Bank of ...
The Irish cheque guarantee scheme covered sums of up to €130 per cheque. In 2010, the average amount of a written cheque was €5,000, and only 1.5% of all cheques were backed by a guarantee card. In the light of these statistics, the Irish Paper Clearing Company announced in December 2010 that the Ireland cheque guarantee card scheme would ...
ANZ: 01, 04, [4] 06 and 11 (see below) 0001–5699 BNZ: 02: 0001–1299 The Co-operative Bank: 02: 1242, 1245–1250 (agency arrangement via BNZ) Westpac: 03: 0001–1999 Heartland: 03: Kookmin Bank: 02: Agency arrangement via BNZ NZCU: 03: Agency arrangement via Westpac Rabobank New Zealand: 03: 0001–1999 China Construction Bank New Zealand ...