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Clearing House Associations

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Voluntary associations, formed by financial institutions that establish an exchange for checks drawn on them. Typically, institutions participating in check clearing houses use the Federal Reserve's National Settlement Service for the checks exchanged each business day.

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Entity Type

Organization85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Clearing House Associationses
possessive
Clearing House Associations's
pluralpossessive
Clearing House Associationses'