Some innovative services are making it easy for people to crowdsource funding. The Cheque & Credit Clearing Company has launched a new online tool to help customers check clearing timescales – the ...

CONSUMERS have been warned that cheques could take up to two weeks to clear because of the high number of bank holidays occurring as a result of Easter and the royal wedding. CONSUMERS have been ...

CUSTOMERS will no longer be able to pay for their shopping by cheque at Sainsbury's stores from August 1. The chain blames the move on the rise of plastic and the "steady decline" of the cheque book.

The necessity to have the back of your cheque signed will soon disappear It is the final weekend for the cheque card. Forty-two years after they were first introduced, they finally become defunct on ...

WE leave more than 900 million cheques sitting in our wallets for nearly a week because we don't have time to get to the bank. BACS, the UK's automated clearing house responsible for processing direct ...

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