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You will shortly write your last cheque

Nury Vittachi
Nov 03, 2014
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A young friend asked me to advise her as she wrote her very first cheque. I told her to just sign her name like she’d sign a letter. In the signature space, she wrote: “Lots of love, Jessie xoxo”.

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Cheque-writing as a skill is dying out. Pity.

Cheques are an important Asian invention, first appearing in India circa 300 BC when Western bank managers w…

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