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A certified check is a safe form of payment with the issuing bank guarantees the funds. Learn about how they work, uses, costs & where to get one now.
Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.
A certified check (or certified cheque) is a form of check for which the bank verifies that sufficient funds exist in the payer's account to cover the check, and so certifies, at the time it is written. Those funds are then set aside in the bank's internal account until the check is cashed or returned by the payee.
Certified checks don’t expire because they are guaranteed funds from the bank. The bank has already done the work of verifying that the money is in the account and is available to be used.
Bank 1 then removes or truncates the original check from the clearing process and uses the check image, MICR data, its own electronic endorsement, and the electronic endorsements to create a substitute check. Bank 1 electronically transmits the check image and the MICR line data captured from the original check to the paying bank (Bank 2) for ...
Funds from certified check vs. cashier's check come directly from the account holder's bank account vs. being drawn from the bank's own account.