You can now deposit cheques into savings accounts – CBN

If you have a savings account in any Nigerian bank, then the Central Bank of Nigeria just gave you the option to receive and deposit cheques directly into your account.

This new instruction is one of four new guidelines released on Tuesday by the apex bank.

Prior to this development, bank customers could only make cheque deposits into their current accounts.

The new guidelines were contained in a circular posted on the CBN website and signed by the Director, Banking and Payment System, Dipo Fatokun.

The circular, which was directed to banks and other financial institutions, was dated July 28, 2016.

The CBN also ordered banks and other financial institutions to remove fixed interest rate on credit cards.

Banks were also directed to henceforth begin to embed customers’ Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) on their payment cards.

It also ordered the banks to discontinue actual address verification as a condition for account opening for customers with the BVN.

The CBN put a daily deposit limit N2m per customer in a day for cheque deposits into savings accounts.

The CBN said the new guidelines were meant to strengthen the payment system and the banking sector.

The circular, with reference number BPS/DIR/GEN?CIR/03/005, read, “The Central Bank of Nigeria, in furtherance of its efforts at strengthening the Nigerian payment system, hereby issues the following directives: the removal of fixed interest on credit cards; and discontinuation of actual address verification in account openings for customers with the Bank Verification Number.

“Banks should begin to embed the BVN on all payment cards issued henceforth to facilitate off-line BVN verification and biometric-based customer authentication in such payment devices as the Automated Teller Machines, Point of Sale Terminal, kiosks etc.

“Savings account customers with the BVN should be allowed to deposit cheques not more than N2m in value into their savings account per, customer per day. Please, be guided and ensure strict compliance with the content of this circular.”

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