The use of personal checks is fading toward obscurity. We pay our bills online and Venmo the babysitter. The plumber takes credit cards and your food delivery payments are automatic. So why has ...

What is a Traditional Savings Account? A traditional savings account is a type of bank account designed to help you save money while earning interest. Most banks and credit unions offer these accounts ...

Welcome to the new year, my friends. The best thing about this fresh, new 2025 is that you don’t have to remember to write it on your checks like in the past, because nobody writes checks anymore. I ...

The amount of checks is typically limited to a certain number each month, but not all financial institutions have these limitations. If you write a lot of checks during your regular billing cycle, you ...

A big banking industry group, not surprisingly perhaps, suggests that consumers stop writing paper checks to stamp out the proliferation of check washing scams. Stop writing checks? It's seriously one ...

Home Personal Finance Banking How to Write a Fraud-Proof Check Fraudsters have found clever ways to alter the names and amounts on checks you've written. Use these simple steps to prevent them from ...

The humble paper check had a good run, but it’s all nearly dead today. Originally developed one thousand years ago in the Middle East, checks were the most widely used non-cash payment method in the ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abrigo, a leading provider of financial crime prevention and risk management solutions for U.S. financial institutions, today announced new survey results revealing how ...

While it’s easy to simply swipe your debit card at the cash register or to pay your bills online, the paper check has not yet met its demise. There are still times when writing a check is the most ...