You've probably bought something in a store with a check even though you don't have the money in your account at the time. You figure you have a few days for the check to clear, and by then the money ...

CHICAGO – Personal checks used to move cross-country on planes and trains, but a new law going into effect Thursday is putting processing on the electronic superhighway — possibly at the expense of ...

The Check 21 legislation, which will take effect Oct. 28, will dramatically alter check processing by making imaging more attractive economically. This will soon reduce the number of paper checks ...

Financial institutions are reviewing their plans for the implementation of Check 21; initial signs suggest many will be ready to handle a limited number of image replacement documents when the ...

The Check 21 Act may be the reason entities have not been reviewing canceled checks. But taking the extra step to review canceled checks with your monthly bank statement can save an organization from ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s the biggest change in banking law in years, and it will eventually have a big impact on your business. Yet no one seems to know much ...

Last week, the Check 21 Act took effect, allowing banks to clear checks electronically and sets standards for the secure electronic transfer of check images between financial institutions. The Act ...

With the effective date for the Check Clearing for the 21st Century (Check 21) Act only 22 days away, few electronic payments observers doubt that the efficiencies of check imaging and image exchange ...

Regulus is working closely with US Dataworks who will develop the Federal Reserve Banks' X9.37 format for Check 21 image exchange services for its financial services client. Based on the success of ...

This week, U.S. banks will reach the first mandated milestone on the way to what’s arguably the biggest change in the way they process checks since the introduction of magnetic ink character ...

The new law that the government refers to as the “Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act” (or Public Law No. 108-100), everyone else calls simply “Check 21.” The law takes effect Oct. 28, 2004, and ...