Clearing house or Clearinghouse may refer to:

Banking and finance

Clearing house (finance) A clearing house, often written as ''clearinghouse'', is a financial institution formed to facilitate the exchange (i.e., '' clearance'') of payments, securities, or derivatives transactions. The clearing house stands between two clearing firms ( ...

* Automated clearing house *

ACH Network In the United States, the ACH Network is the national automated clearing house (ACH) for electronic funds transfers established in the 1960s and 1970s. It is a financial utility owned by US banks, and is one of the largest payments networks i ...

, an electronic network for financial transactions in the U.S. *

Bankers' clearing house Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the c ...

Cheque clearing Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the ...

Clearing House (EU) Clearing House is a working group in the European Union established after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is composed of national security services under the Common Foreign and Security Policy who meet regularly in Brussels Brussels, ...

, an EU intelligence body *

Clearing House Association The Clearing House is a banking association and payments company owned by the largest commercial banks in the United States. The Clearing House is the parent organization of The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C., which owns and operates core ...

, a New York trade group and banking association *

Clearing House Automated Transfer System The Clearing House Automated Transfer System, or CHATS, is a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system for the transfer of funds in Hong Kong. It is operated by Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL), a limited-liability private company join ...

(HK), a real-time gross settlement system in Hong Kong *

The Clearing House Payments Company The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. (PayCo) is a U.S.-based limited liability company formed by Clearing House Association. PayCo is a private sector, payment system infrastructure that operates an electronic check clearing and settlement ...

, an American check clearing and wholesale funds transfer company **

The Clearing House The Clearing House is a banking association and payments company owned by the largest commercial banks in the United States. The Clearing House is the parent organization of The Clearing House Payments Company, The Clearing House Payments Company ...

, its parent organization **

Bank Policy Institute The Bank Policy Institute (BPI) is an American public policy, research, and advocacy organization, based in Washington, D.C. The organization was formed in July 2018 following the merger of the Financial Services Roundtable and the Clearing Hou ...

, an entity which subsumed the Clearing House Association, a former arm of The Clearing House *

New York Clearing House The Clearing House is a banking association and payments company owned by the largest commercial banks in the United States. The Clearing House is the parent organization of The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C., which owns and operates core ...

, first and largest U.S. bank clearing house * Pan-European automated clearing house

Other uses

Access to Information Central Clearing House The Access to Information Central Clearing House was established by the UK Government in January 2005. The Central Clearing House was set up to ensure consistent application of the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, a ...

(UK) *

Central Register and Clearing House The Central Register and Clearing House (CRCH) was an administrative organisation in teacher education in England and Wales which existed for almost sixty years. It pre-dated by some thirty years a similar organisation for university courses ( UCC ...

, an administrative organization in teacher education in England and Wales *

Clearing House, California Clearing House (formerly, Clearinghouse) is an unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California. It is located on the north bank of the Merced River west of El Portal. The Clearinghouse post office operated from 1913 to 1933. The plac ...

Packet Clearing House Packet Clearing House (PCH) is the international organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the Domain Name System. The organiz ...

(PCH.net), Internet infrastructure company based in California *

Publishers Clearing House Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is an American company founded in 1953 by Harold Mertz. It was originally founded as an alternative to door-to-door subscription business model, magazine subscription sales by offering bulk mail direct marketin ...

(PCH.com), U.S. direct-marketing company that sells merchandise and magazine subscriptions and operates several prize-based websites *

Railway Clearing House The Railway Clearing House (RCH) was an organisation set up to manage the allocation of revenue collected by Railways Act 1921, pre-grouping railway companies for the conveyance of passengers and goods over the lines (or using the rolling stock ...

, former UK organization absorbed by the

British Railways Board The British Railways Board (BRB) was a State ownership, nationalised industry in the United Kingdom that operated from 1963 to 2001. Until 1997, it was responsible for most railway services in History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to d ...

(BRB) in 1963 *

WAC Clearinghouse The WAC Clearinghouse publishes peer-reviewed, open-access journals and books, as well as other professional resources for teachers and instructional materials for students. Writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) refers to a formal programmatic approa ...

, publishes open-access journals, books, and other resources

Banking and finance

Other uses

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