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What costs do banks incur when a deposited check bounces?

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Faisal KhanContributor

10/Mar/2012

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A few pennies really. Almost all the cheque processing is automated. It is nothing more than scanning/processing of physical cheques, and in electronic cheques, simply an authorization, etc.

All in all, I think it would cost an average financial institution less than 30 cents to process it all (even if the cheque gets bounced).