Many Americans still write paper checks for bills, purchases and services. However, bad actors are making a comeback and ripping off customers and U.S. banks.

Whatever else we do in banks, we're also bank customers. And our experiences as customers shape our expectations as bankers. I recently asked my bank to send me more blank checks. Instead of the ...

Since peaking in 1995, checks, an ancient means of exchange that dates back to the first millennium-era Mediterranean, have declined in use with consumers abandoning the paper slips at a more ...