One of the biggest banks has sounded the death knell for the cheque guarantee card, with rivals set to follow its lead. Santander, owner of Abbey and Alliance & Leicester, said yesterday that all of ...

Cheque guarantee cards, those symbols of a simpler time when the written word was mightier than the Pin number, have checked out. They have been bounced into the after-life because not enough people ...

It is the final weekend for the cheque card. Forty-two years after they were first introduced, they finally become defunct on Thursday, 30 June. No longer will you have to ask a tradesman to write ...

Today the 24 bank and building society members of the UK Domestic Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme have announced that the Scheme will close on 30th June 2011, meaning that it will no longer be possible ...

Cheque guarantee cards will not be re-introduced, the body which oversees payments said yesterday, after finding the scheme's closure has had a "minimal impact" on consumers and businesses. The ...

MPs kept up the pressure for the return of cheque guarantee cards today by suggesting that the Government could consider stepping in with legislation. The Payments Council, whose members include ...

ARE banks trying to kill off cheques by the back door? That’s the fear after their trade body, the Payments Council, yesterday confirmed cheque-guarantee cards won’t come back. The 42-year-old scheme ...

One of the biggest banks has sounded the death knell for the cheque guarantee card, with rivals set to follow its lead. Santander, owner of Abbey and Alliance & Leicester, said yesterday that all of ...

With less than six months to go until the closure of the Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme, new research shows that 4 out of 10 people are still unaware that the Scheme will be closing on 30th June this ...

The removal of cheque guarantees on debit cards will begin much earlier than expected as some Abbey customers will lose the capability from next month. The Payments Council, which polices payment ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest John George Walker news every morning. MPs are demanding the restoration of cheque guarantee cards in order to ensure that the preferred ...