What is the cheque clearing cycle and how long does it take?
When you pay a cheque into your account it has to be sent to the drawer’s bank for payment for that bank to decide if it will honour the cheque. It may not if, for example, the person who gave you the cheque hasn’t enough money in their account. This process is known as the central cheque clearing cycle and normally takes three working days. We also need to allow extra days for an unpaid cheque to be returned.
