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The business of check cashing

Jan 30, 2024·~31 minutes·11 chapters

Chapters

11 total

Happy 2024! I had been hoping to have a year-in-review for 2023 ready by now, but a combination of illness and travel bushwacked me in January. So instead of that, we’ll go with regular programming for today and return to that later.

0:44

Check cashing

0:49

An oversimplified explanation of check presentment

2:13

Depositing a check requires an extension of credit

5:22

How cashing a check works if you’re not banked

1:19

A brief aside about endorsement

2:37

Many people hate check cashing and everything about it

2:58

The internal logic behind that pricing grid

3:40

Persistent identities as a KYC possibility

7:14

Check cashing on phones

4:19

Description

Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.

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Duration

~31 minutes (30K characters)

Release date

Jan 30, 2024