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If you want to know how bank checks work, it's like this. You write an instruction (called a check) to your bank, telling them to pay a certain amount of money to a specific person (although you can also make out a check to "cash" meaning that anyone can cash it). You can then give this check to the person you wish to pay. This person then deposits the check in his or her account. His or her bank goes through a process of check reconciliation on a daily basis, because there are a huge number of checks being written and what matters to a bank is the total difference between how much money they are receiving from another bank, and how much money they owe to that same bank. If they are receiving $10,350,000 from a given bank, but also owe $10, 010,000 to that same bank, then the difference is $340,000 which they would then receive from that bank. Meanwhile, your personal account is debited for the check you wrote, and the person who deposited your check is credited. The money, thus, is transferred, as you specified.

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