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In the postal giro model, the paying party sends a request to pay the payee (called a giro transfer) to the giro centre, which verifies that the funds are available, debits the payer's accounts by the amount requested, and credits that amount to the payee's account. The giro centre then sends the giro transfer document to the payee, and an ...
Postal giro, retail banking National Girobank was a British public sector financial institution run by the General Post Office that opened for business in October 1968. [ 1 ] It was initially called National Giro [ 2 ] [ 3 ] then National Girobank and finally Girobank plc , before being absorbed into Alliance & Leicester in 2003.
The system dates back to 1973, when the commercial banks and the saving banks created a common system, that could compete with the Postgiro system used by the postal bank, Postbanken. Use of Bankgiro was free until 1985. In the late 1990s, Postgiro was bought out by BBS and Postbanken went over to using Bankgiro.
Giro (banking), a direct payment from one bank account to another instigated by the payer Girobank, a state owned and later privatised financial institution in the UK ...
A money order is purchased for the amount desired. In this way it is similar to a cashier's check.The main difference is that money orders are usually limited in maximum face value to some specified figure (for example, the United States Postal Service limits domestic postal money orders to US$1,000.00 as of November 2023) while cashier's check are not.
A postal order or postal note is a type of money order usually intended for sending money through the mail. It is purchased at a post office and is payable to the named recipient at another post office.
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The competing system Bankgirot was owned and operated by the banks. The deregulation of postal services in Sweden prompted a sale of Postgirot, and initially there were plans to merge the two clearing systems, but it was halted due to objections from the Swedish Competition Authority. Instead, Postgirot applied for a banking license and became ...