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withdrawals to be made from passbooks at a branch other than the one where an account was opened, unless prior arrangements were made to transfer the signature card to the other branch. Under this system, the passbook's owner would sign in the back of the passbook in an invisible ink and the signing authorities would also be noted. At the paying branch, the signature on the withdrawal slip would be checked against the signature in the book, which required a special ultraviolet reader to read. Today, the customer is more commonly verified by
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would be prepared and signed. If the teller did not know the account holder, the signature on the slip and the authorities would be checked against the signature card at the branch, before money was paid out. In the 1980s, banks adopted the black light signature system for passbooks, which enabled
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The passbook, which was around the size of a passport, ensured that customers had control over their own information, and was called a "passbook" because it was used as a way to identify the account holder without needing further identification. It also regularly passed between the bank and the
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Passbooks appeared in the 18th century, allowing customers to hold transaction information in their own hands for the first time. Until then, transactions were recorded in ledgers at the bank only, so customers had no history of their own deposits and withdrawals.
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is stamped with the date and then returned to the account holder. An account holder uses his passbook to record their history of transactions with his bank.
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Bank account book, issued by Petty and Postlethwaite for use in Cumbria, UK. 1st entry 1831, last entry in 1870. On display at the British Museum in London.
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would write the date, amount of the transaction, and the updated balance and enter his or her initials by hand. In the late 20th century, small
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were introduced that were capable of updating the passbook at the account holder's convenience, either at an
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Withdrawals normally required the account holder to visit the branch where the account was held, where a
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For the document that black African citizens were required to carry in apartheid-era South Africa, see
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Traditionally, a passbook was used for accounts with a low transaction volume, such as
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For the application on Apple's iOS operating system formerly known as Passbook, see
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or a passbook printer, either in a self-serve mode, by post, or in a
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Customers queuing to bank counter in Finland with passbooks (1943)
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Steitz Savings and Loan Association Mortgage Loan Passbook (1987)
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Sample passbook (open), containing the same transactions as the
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to a bank in person, the account holder can fill a small
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introduced passbooks to rural 19th-century Britain.
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