Products Flashcards
(53 cards)
What are 5 different types of check product services?
Lockbox Services
Account Reconciliation Products (ARP)
Positive Pay Products
Controlled Disbursements
Image Cash Letter
What are Lockbox Services?
Bank or third party receives mail at a specified post office box
Processes enclosed remittances
Deposits to Payee’s account
What benefits are there to Lockbox services?
Faster Collection
Access to payments information for items accepted through the lockbox to better
serve customers
Payments Concentration: Centralized remittance processing speeds up
deposits/improves cash flow
What is Account Reconciliation (ARP)
Banks reconcile statement of checks paid and deposits made with goal of increasing amount of information available and decreasing amount of work in company’s accounting department
sorting of paid checks in check number order
Customer notifies banks of checks written and banks supply statement listing activity, including checks outstanding
What are the range of services for Account Reconciliation?
Multiple accounts
- Schedule defined by customer - daily, weekly, monthly
Full reconciliation:
Partial Reconciliation
Deposit Reconciliation
What is full reconciliation?
An Account Reconciliation service in which Customer provides bank data on checks issued
o FI matches data against checks cleared
o Customer receives reconciliation reports including checks paid, outstanding items and exceptions
What is Partial Reconciliation?
An Account Reconciliation service in which Customer receives report of items paid sorted by customer’s instructions.
What is Deposit Reconciliation
Account Reconciliation service in which allows customer to maintain one account and have deposits from multiple business locations
What are all of the different positive pay products?
Positive Pay
Reverse Positive Pay
Payee Positive Pay
What is Positive Pay?
Bank can automatically match each check
presented against list of checks issued by the
customer
What is Reverse Positive Pay?
Bank sends to the company a listing of checks presented
The company compares the information to its
internal records
What is Payee Positive Pay?
Matches payee name from issue file to payee
name on checks
What is Controlled Disbursement?
It is a corporate cash management product
Designed to manage cash flow and maximize investments
Provides customer with information early day of total amount of checks that will clear
What is the basic process of Controlled Disbursement?
Early notification of amount needed in disbursement account
Funds to equal total disbursements provided via a funding account
Customer can identify excess cash for investments or other needs
Early notification is key
What are the benefits of Controlled Disbursement?
Reduction of idle balances
Timely notification on daily account funding need
Reduced borrowing costs
Manage check-clearing risk and/or reduce or eliminate overdraft
Potential fraud reductions
Shat are seven different types of checks?
Certified check
Government check
Money Order
Traveler’s check
Payable Through Draft
Remotely Created Check
Warrants
Certified
Check
Defined in Reg CC
o Issuing bank takes the check amount from drawer’s account and sets aside
Bank will pay upon presentment (used infrequently today)
Government
Check
Demand draft drawn by U.S. government on itself (on U.S. Treasury) or drawn on state government or unit
of general local government
o Not payable through or at a bank
o Generally regarded as checks even though not drawn on a bank
Money
Order
Draft purchased from financial institution, U.S. Post Office or sales agent
o To pay a debt or transfer funds
o Available through U.S. Postal Service/other providers (MoneyGram and Western Union)
Traveler’s
Check
Payable on demand, drawn on or payable at or through a bank
* Requires, as a condition of payment, a countersignature by person whose specimen signature appears on
instrument
* While some institutions offer physical checks, many now offer alternatives (Visa, MasterCard prepaid cards)
Payable
Through Draft
Draft that is payable through a specific bank printed on face of draft, but
* Drawn on issuer, not the bank: Funds drawn from issuer’s account
* Payable through another entity or financial institution
o Example: Insurance company issues payable-through draft to pay a claim
Remotely
Created
Check
Check that is not created by the paying bank and does not bear signature of person on whose account the check
is drawn (an unsigned draft)
o Example: Account holder authorizes a payee to draw a check on their account payable to that payee
What are Warrants
Negotiable instrument issued by state or local government agencies
* Drawn against the state or local government’s treasury to disburse funds
* Registered Warrant: Promise to pay at some point in the future (not a check)
oPromise to be paid a specific amount at a later date with interest
oUnique RT numbers assigned to identify them
oExample: State of California issued registered warrants several years ago to pay state’s obligations
Substitute Check
Image of front and bacnk of the original check. Has MICR line with all information from original check
Conforms to x9.100-140.
Note: IRD and Substitute the same.