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General. In general, a lockbox is a post-office box (PO box) that is accessible by a bank. A company may set up a lockbox service with its bank for receiving customers' payments. The company's customers send their payments to the PO box. Then the bank collects and processes these payments directly and deposits them to the company's account.
BAI, or the BAI file format, is a file format for performing electronic cash management balance reporting. The BAI format was developed and previously maintained by the Bank Administration Institute (BAI). [1] One common application of the BAI format is for use by banks to transmit returned item data to customers (for example, checks which have ...
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.
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.
The Treasury General Account (TGA) is an account maintained by the United States Department of the Treasury at the Federal Reserve. [1] It receives tax payments and proceeds from the auction of Treasury securities, and disburses government payments to individuals and businesses. [2] Aside from its cash flow duties, it is also held to protect ...
Remote deposit. Remote deposit or mobile deposit is the ability of a bank customer to deposit a cheque into a bank account from a remote location, without having to physically deliver the cheque to the bank. This was originally accomplished by scanning a digital image of a cheque into a computer then transmitting that image to the bank, but is ...
Bank vault, a secure space where money, valuables, records, and documents are stored. Post office box, a rented secure mailbox at a post office. Safe, a secure lockable box used for securing valuable objects. Safes for holding keys. Knox Box, a small, wall-mounted safe that stores the key to a building, used by firefighters and emergency services.
Factoring (finance) Factoring is a financial transaction and a type of debtor finance in which a business sells its accounts receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party (called a factor) at a discount. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] A business will sometimes factor its receivable assets to meet its present and immediate cash needs. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Forfaiting is a ...