cheques

Ministers face demands to hand self-employed £1,000 cheques to ‘tide them over’

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Ministers are facing demands to move faster to bail out the self-employed amid fears a huge coronavirus rescue package announced by Rishi Sunak will not be in place for months. There are calls for the government to send ‘blanket’ £1,000 cheques to such workers to stop them being plunged into poverty as the economy grinds … Read more

Three reasons why one business keeps on using cheques

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Earlier in the week, we revealed how 10,000 cheques a day had been deposited over the festive period using HSBC’s digital cheque scanner. Cheques are often seen as an increasingly outdated way of paying, with people opting for bank transfers, with digital cheque scanners a stopgap until they disappear completely. However, one This is Money … Read more

Five out of the six High Street banks allow customers to bank cheques made out to their middle names

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Five out of the six High Street banks allow customers to bank cheques made out to their middle names By Samantha Partington For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 10 September 2019 | Updated: 09:13 GMT, 11 September 2019 Current account holders can still bank cheques made out to their middle names in five out … Read more