Increase in Honored Checks

EghtesadOnline: More than 552,000 checks bounced in the sixth calendar month to September 22, down 14% on the month before as banks cleared more checks compared to the recent past.

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31 October 2022

The checks were worth 353 trillion rials ($1.07 billion), down 10.6% on a monthly basis, the Central Bank of Iran reported.

Bad checks accounted for 8.2% of total drawn checks, and 10.5% of the volume of all checks issued in the month.

In the corresponding period last year 9.7% and 12.6% of the volume and value of all drawn checks were rejected.

Bad checks accounted for 9.1% and 11.4% of the total drawn checks in the fifth month of the Iranian year.