Under normal circumstances, a bank cannot take money from your checking account to pay off your credit card debt. There are exceptions to this rule, including if a bank gets a court judgment against ...

A cancelled check or stop payment request prevents funds from leaving your account when someone tries to cash or deposit the check. You must act quickly — banks cannot stop payment on checks that have ...

Money transfer apps can be magnets for scams and fraud, but there are ways to use them safely.

INDIANAPOLIS — A $200 Venmo payment from someone you do not know seems like an honest mistake. At least that's what Venmo user Oscar thought when he saw the payment hit his account. So, he sent the ...

One of the first checks ever recorded was written in the 11th century, in a marketplace in Basra, in present-day Iraq. There, a merchant issued a sakk: written instructions to his bank to make a ...