Check-cashing services offer quick access to funds for individuals who do not have traditional bank accounts, typically through storefronts or retail locations. These services typically charge high ...

In today’s financial landscape, over 5% of U.S. households remain unbanked, creating a significant need for quick and efficient ways to cash checks without a traditional bank account. As of 2025, new ...

Back-room exchanges of money at a check-cashing business. Young men using fake names, IDs and Social Security numbers to set up sham subcontracting companies to cash checks through the businesses and ...

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The New York State Department of Financial Services has suspended the licenses of Syosset-based Pay-O-Matic, a provider of check-cashing and money transmission services, according to a notice on the ...

In May of 2009, Community Development Finance (CDF) opened the first nonprofit, full-service check cashing store in the country in Fruitvale, California. The project is designed to provide low-income ...

Atlanta police on Tuesday continued to search for two robbers captured on video dropping into a check cashing store from the ceiling and grabbing stacks of cash from a safe. Police believe the pair, ...

Lakeisha Williams has a bank account. That doesn’t mean she always uses it. The home health aide from West Harlem sometimes can’t wait the few days it takes for her paycheck to clear. So she ...

A hostage situation at a Brooklyn check cashing store by a lone gunman ended peacefully Saturday night after a few tense hours before the gunman surrendered. Police said the gunman entered the money ...