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The par collection system of the Federal Reserve Banks
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Automated check processing
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Statement to Congress, September 8, 1988 (consumer provisions)
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Technology improvements enhance check adjustment services
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Banks make deposits available sooner
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The check float puzzle
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The founders' intentions: sources of the payments services franchise of the Federal Reserve banks
The reserve banks check collection service was designed in 1913 to serve as "glue," attaching the new central bank to the commercial and financial markets through member banks. Successful creation and operation of the Federal Reserve System was thought to be more likely if the reserve banks could do more for member banks than lend occasionally and administer the reserve requirement tax. Initial drafts of the Federal Reserve Act would have allowed member banks to use required reserve deposits only for making interbank transfers. But correspondent banking relationships already provided ...
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Improving the nation's payments system: advice to the Fed
Working Paper
Effects of Federal Reserve services on the efficiency of the system for collecting checks in the United States: 1915--30
This paper investigates whether the services of the Federal Reserve System improved the efficiency of the system in the United States for collecting checks relative to the efficiency of the system used by banks just prior to the formation of the Federal Reserve. There are two types of evidence that the Fed's services improved efficiency. First, the Reserve Banks quickly became major processors of interregional checks, even though banks could have continued to use the prior payments arrangements. Second, declines in the ratios of cash to total assets of banks can be attributed to the ...