A Payment Order

question 44

Multiple Choice

A payment order:

• A)is a sender's instruction to a receiving bank to pay, or to cause another bank to pay, a fixed or determinable amount of money to a beneficiary.
• B)is issued when sent and, if more than one payment is to be made, the payments are condensed into one payment order.
• C)must be communicated in writing or electronically.
• D)All of these.

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