Imagine you’re in a pinch and need quick access to cash. Your mind races through various options — one of which may sound like a latently illegal financial hack: writing a check to yourself. But can ...

Our team reviewed 154 of the country’s largest and most prominent financial institutions, from big banks like Chase and Bank of America to credit unions like Navy Federal Credit Union and PenFed ...

Writing a check to give as a wedding gift seems so simple. You don't have to spend time scouting the registry, you just jot down the information, seal it in a card and dash off to the party. But if ...

Writing a check correctly can be intimidating, especially if you’re out of practice — or never learned. The less you use your checkbook, the more confusing it can be — especially when it comes to ...

While it’s easy to simply swipe your debit card at the cash register or to pay your bills online, the paper check has not yet met its demise. There are still times when writing a check is the most ...

Rebecca Lake is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF) and a banking expert. She's been writing about personal finance since 2014, and her work has appeared in numerous publications online.

Typewriters vanished, and then cassette tapes and encyclopedias did, too. But paper checks are one piece of our analog past that persists. American consumers and businesses wrote 11.2 billion checks ...

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. If you haven’t written one in a ...