Electronic bill payment Electronic bill payment Electronic bill payment is a feature of online, mobile and telephone banking, similar in its effect to a giro, allowing a customer of a financial institution to transfer money from their transaction or credit card account to a creditor or vendor such as a public utility, department store or an individual to be credited against a specific account. These payments are typically executed electronically as a direct deposit through a national payment system, operated by the banks or in conjunction with the government. Payment is typically initiated by the payer but can also be set up as
Slang terms for money or a "Borden" (after its portrait of Prime Minister Robert Borden). $100.00 is also called an "onion" in gambling corners. Since Canadians and Americans both refer to their respective currencies as "the dollar," and because the two countries tend to mingle both socially and in the media, there is a lot of overlap in slang terms for money. However, this usually only extends to terms that are not specific to one country or the other. For example, both Canadians and Americans refer to a $100 note as a "C-note", but an American might refer to it as a "Benjamin", after