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I really am speechless

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  • noh
    noh Posts: 5,817 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    PROLIANT wrote: »
    A&L are the Giro Bank :confused: , Halifax are not a clearing bank how ever their owners Bank of Scotland are so you could use them.

    You are rather confused aren't you?


    Bank Giro Credit
    A paper instrument addressed to a bank branch instructing it to credit a specified sum of money to a named account at that branch. A bank giro credit is not a payment instrument, i.e. it cannot be used on its own to make a payment but must be accompanied by cash or cheque.

    Girobank was a financial institution founded in 1968. It started as Post Office Giro but went through several name changes: National Giro, National Girobank and, finally, Girobank.
    Established by the Post Office, its operations are now part of the Alliance & Leicester Group, and it is no longer trading under the Giro or Girobank names.

    Nigel
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