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Banks and building societies have announced changes to the way they handle cheques that are payable just to a bank or building society, as a further measure to reduce cheque fraud. They are now ...

I was urged to send a cheque payable to an organisation by the name of ‘HM Courts and Tribunal Service’. My cheque was cashed on 3 October, since when I have heard nothing. I have attempted to ...

The idea according to RBI was triggered by growing use of multi-city and payable-at-par cheques at any branch of a bank, increasing popularity of Speed Clearing for local processing of outstation ...