Merchant Bankers

Paying in a cheque to my account at lunchtime, I noticed that the HSBC in London Bridge has a funky new paying-in machine. It scans your cheque in and then uses some kind of OCR to work out the amount written on the cheque. You even get a little mini copy of the cheque on your receipt to take away. Sorry, but I’m a geek, and I think that’s pretty cool. Now, if they could…

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