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A dishonoured cheque (US spelling: dishonored 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, indicating that there are insufficient cleared funds in the account on which the ...
Memo line: The line in the bottom left corner of the check is the memo line and this is where you fill out the reason for payment. Signature line: This is located in the bottom right-hand corner ...
Cashier's cheques and banker's drafts, also known as bank cheques, banker's cheques or treasurer's cheques, are cheques issued against the funds of a financial institution rather than an individual account holder. Typically, the term cashier's check is used in the US and banker's draft is used in the UK and most of the Commonwealth. The ...
The embarrassing cheque is a confidence trick which may also be an urban legend. The scam was supposedly performed by a company selling pornography or other sex aids and trading under a highly explicit name. Customers were invited to purchase adult material from the company, and were assured that the actual transaction could be made with a ...
A cashier's check (or cashier's cheque, cashier's order, official check; in Canada, the term bank draft is used, [1] not to be confused with Banker's draft as used in the United States) is a check guaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own funds and signed by a bank employee. [2]
A substitute check or cheque, also called an image cash letter (ICL), clearing replacement document (CRD), [1] or image replacement document (IRD), [2] is a negotiable instrument used in electronic banking systems to represent a physical paper cheque (check).
If the customer is paying by cheque, the remittance advice often accompanies the cheque. The advice may consist of a literal letter (e.g., "To Whom it May Concern: Your shipment of the 10th inst was received in good order; accompanying is our remittance of $52.47 per invoice No 83046") or of a voucher attached to the side or top of the cheque.
Coutts & Co. traveller's cheque, for 2 pounds. Issued in London, 1970s. Langmead Collection. On display at the British Museum in London. Traveller's cheques were first issued on 1 January 1772 by the London Credit Exchange Company for use in 90 European cities, [1] and in 1874, Thomas Cook was issuing "circular notes" that operated in the manner of traveller's cheques.