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Check Services
The Federal Reserve Banks’ Check Services offer you a suite of electronic and paper check processing options to support all of your needs. Your financial institution can select among a variety of processing options based on deposit deadlines, credit availability and level of sorting.
Check 21-Enabled Services
Offers financial institutions a suite of services to send and receive image cash letters.
FedForward® Services
Provides financial institutions with the ability to deposit an image or paper cash letter of forward collection items that the Federal Reserve Banks will clear and present as either substitute checks or an electronic file to the paying bank.
Fees (XLS)
FedReturn® Services
Provides financial institutions with the ability to deposit mixed image cash letters of return items. This service allows you to transform your outbound returns processing operations to reduce risk, streamline backroom operations, improve quality and speed the returns process while realizing substantial
Fees (XLS)
FedReceipt® Services
Provides financial institutions with "straight-through" electronic check processing for a portion or all of your inclearings. You can reduce your check processing costs and resources by decreasing in-house sorting and image capture.
Fees (XLS)
Check Adjustment Services
Check Adjustment Services
Allows financial institutions to quickly and effectively resolve debit or credit settlement discrepancies on checks that were processed or handled by the Federal Reserve.
Traditional Electronic Check Services
Traditional Electronic Check Services
Provides financial institutions with earlier access to check data contained in your incoming cash letters through FedImage® Services, MICR Products and Presentment Point Services.
Paper Check Clearing
Paper Check Services
Allows financial institutions to deposit both forward and return check items using a variety of deposit options.
Canadian Check Service
Provides financial institutions with a Canadian check collection service for all checks drawn on Canadian depository institutions.
Foreign Check Service
Provides financial institutions with a foreign check collection service for all checks drawn on depository institutions outside of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts, except for Canadian checks.
- Canadian Item Processing to be Centralized at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (PDF)
- New Pricing Policy for Carrier Documents (PDF)
- Destination Check 21 Resource Center
- Check 21 Value Calculator (Off-site Link)
- Interdistrict Check Manual
- Check Adjustment Webinars
- Payor Conversion Resource Center
- Check Restructuring Resource Center
- FedReceipt Routing Numbers
- CheckImage Central (Off-site Link)
- X9 Standards (Off-site Link)
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