About Us

The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company (C&CCC) is a non-profit making industry body, which has managed the cheque clearing system in England and Wales since 1985, and in all of Great Britain since 1996 when it took over responsibility for managing the Scottish cheque clearing as well. (The clearing of sterling cheques and euro cheques in  Northern Ireland is managed by the Belfast Bankers Clearing Company).

As well as clearing cheques, the system processes bankers’ drafts, building society cheques, postal orders, warrants, government payable orders and travellers’ cheques. 

The C&CCC also manages the systems for the clearing of paper bank giro credits (the credit clearing), euro cheques (the euro clearing) and US dollar cheques (the currency clearing for US dollar cheques drawn on GB banks).

The team in the Company Office provides a range of professional services to its members including: operational management, technical advice, project management, risk and compliance management, secretariat and regulatory consultation. In addition our communications expertise reaches out beyond the members to all our stakeholders through a programme of seminars, forums, newsletters and our website.