lockbox

lockbox
(1) A cash management arrangement designed to reduce delays in depositing funds into the payee's bank accounts. A post office box that is established by a bank to receive checks for its cash management customers. Lockboxes are utilized to accelerate deposits to the bank by eliminating internal processing by the payee organization. The bank need not maintain a separate post office box for each lockbox customer. Instead, it can sort mail received in a common box.
(2) A secured lending control arrangement. Under this arrangement, the borrower's account debtors mail their payments into a post office box that is controlled by the bank. The funds are then applied by the bank to reduce a loan to the borrower that is secured by those accounts receivable. The bank need not maintain a separate post office box for each lockbox customer. Instead, it can sort mail received in a common box. American Banker Glossary
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A collection and processing service provided to firms by banks, which collect payments from a dedicated postal box to which the firm directs its customers to send payment to. The banks make several collections per day, process the payments immediately, and deposit the funds into the firm's bank account. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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lockbox UK US /ˈlɒkbɒks/ noun [C] BANKING
► a service provided by banks in which a company's customers send payments directly to a bank so that the money can be paid immediately into the company's bank account: lockbox facility/service »

Checks are sent to a post office box in Pittsburgh, to be processed through the bank's lockbox facility.

► a strong, locked container used for storing money and valuable possessions: »

He has a lockbox at the back of the office where he stores cash and other valuables.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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