WRITING just one cheque a week will cost a bank customer more than €40 a year. This cost is made up of transaction charges and government-imposed stamp duty. And the cost will be even higher if the ...

A cheque is an agreement of payment between two individuals or organisations. So when you write a cheque, you are agreeing to pay another individual or organisation money that you owe them and you are ...

While the use of cheques has been declining with the growing popularity of electronic and card payments, banks still process a lot of cheques every year, according to https://cba.ca. A cheque is an ...

Charles Dickens' cheque is held by the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth As the world marks the 200th year since the birth of Charles Dickens, the National Library of Wales can say it holds ...

UP TO eight million cheques worth billions of pounds pass through the clearing system every day. But for all the talk of high speed and real-time banking, some institutions move at a snail's pace when ...