9-425: Mercantile agencies , or commercial agencies , are organizations that are designed to collect, record, and distribute to regular clients information relative to the standing of commercial firms. They thus act as a sort of clearing house of information on customers' reliability. In Great Britain and other some European countries, trade protective societies composed of merchants and tradesmen have been formed for
18-589: A headquarters where reports regarding the standing of customers could be exchanged. Lewis Tappan (1788–1873), the founder of the Journal of Commerce (1828) and a prominent abolitionist leader, undertook the work by establishing there in 1841 the Mercantile Agency , later Dun & Bradstreet Corporation , the first organization of its kind. The system has been developed and extended since. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from
27-641: A publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Mercantile Agencies ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148. clearing house [REDACTED] Look up clearing house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clearing house or Clearinghouse may refer to: Banking and finance [ edit ] Clearing house (finance) Automated clearing house ACH Network , an electronic network for financial transactions in
36-460: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pan-European automated clearing house A pan-European automated clearing house (PE-ACH) is a clearing house that is able to settle SEPA compliant credit transfers and direct debits across the Eurozone . At present there is only one PE-ACH in operation – STEP2 – which was established by
45-482: The financial crisis of 1837 . Trade in the United States had become scattered over a wide territory, communications were slow, and town merchants lacked adequate information as to the standing of many businessmen seeking credit. The severity of the collapse of 1837 was partly caused by to the insufficiency of that information. New York City merchants had suffered so severely that they were determined to organize
54-1342: The Clearing House Association, a former arm of The Clearing House Clearstream , a post-trade services provider Euroclear , a Belgian financial services company New York Clearing House , first and largest U.S. bank clearing house Pan-European automated clearing house Other uses [ edit ] Access to Information Central Clearing House (UK) Central Register and Clearing House , an administrative organization in teacher education in England and Wales Clearing House, California Packet Clearing House (PCH.net), Internet infrastructure company based in California Publishers Clearing House (PCH.com), U.S. direct-marketing company that sells merchandise and magazine subscriptions and operates several prize-based websites Railway Clearing House , former UK organization absorbed by the British Railways Board (BRB) in 1963 WAC Clearinghouse , publishes open-access journals, books, and other resources See also [ edit ] Clearing (finance) All pages with titles containing Clearing house Topics referred to by
63-603: The U.S. Bankers' clearing house Cheque clearing Clearing House (EU) , an EU intelligence body Clearing House Association , a New York trade group and banking association Clearing House Automated Transfer System (HK), a real-time gross settlement system in Hong Kong The Clearing House Payments Company , an American check clearing and wholesale funds transfer company The Clearing House , its parent organization Bank Policy Institute , an entity which subsumed
72-464: The promotion of trade; their members exchange information regarding the standing of business houses. The societies had their origin in the associations formed in the mid-18th century for the purpose of disseminating information regarding bankruptcies, assignments and bills of sale. The mercantile agency in the United States is a much more comprehensive organization and came into existence after
81-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Clearing house . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clearing_house&oldid=1246868440 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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