A cheque or check ; is a document that orders a bank, building society to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing the cheque, known as the drawer, has a transaction banking account where the money is held. The drawer writes various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the drawee, to pay the amount of money stated to the payee.
Cheque signed by US President Gerald Ford from 1975
A cheque with Thomas Jefferson as payee and payor from 1809
A cheque from 1905
A cheque from 1933
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.
This 15th-century painting depicts money-dealers at a banca (bench) during the Cleansing of the Temple.
Sealing of the Bank of England Charter (1694), by Lady Jane Lindsay, 1905.
Interior of the Helsinki Branch of the Vyborg-Bank [fi] in the 1910s
Banco de Venezuela in Coro.