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A teller in a branch of Bank Muamalat, Indonesia. A bank teller (often abbreviated to simply teller) is an employee of a bank whose responsibilities include the handling of customer cash and negotiable instruments.
A standing order (or a standing instruction) is an instruction a bank account holder ("the payer") gives to their bank to pay a set amount at regular intervals to another's ("the payee's") account. The instruction is sometimes known as a banker's order. They are typically used to pay rent, mortgage or any other fixed regular payments.
The description column on deposit slips has been used for over 100 years in the U.S. to notate where the bank should send the check to reclaim the money; this was done at first by notating in words the name of bank or its location. [9] The bank's transit number, also called bank number, began to be used instead of words.
One beneficial part of JPMorgan Chase's (NYS: JPM) $2 billion trading fiasco is that it let us peer inside the too-big-to-fail banking world. We learned, for example, that Ina Drew, the JPMorgan ...
A banker's acceptance starts with a deposit in the amount of the future payment plus fees. A time draft to be drawn on the deposit is issued for the payment at a future date, analogous to a post-dated check. The bank accepts (guarantees) the obligation to pay the holder of the draft, analogous to a cashier's check.
Bankers' bonuses are traditionally paid or awarded to some workers in the finance industry at the end of the bank's financial year. They are intended to reward employee behavior during that year that has increased the profits of the bank or some relevant part of its business, as shown by the annual accounts.
Mortgage bankers originate, underwrite and fund mortgage loans. They also may package and sell the loans to investors, although some keep the loans they originate and service them by accepting ...
Banks act as payment agents by conducting checking or current accounts for customers, paying cheques drawn by customers in the bank, and collecting cheques deposited to customers' current accounts. Banks also enable customer payments via other payment methods such as Automated Clearing House (ACH), Wire transfers or telegraphic transfer ...