The following deposit methods are not accepted:
- Cash (coin or currency)
- Domestic drafts
- Starter Checks
- Checks from minors
- Stale-dated checks over three months old
- Post-dated checks
- Third party checks defined as checks with a payee other than Interactive Brokers (including checks made payable to Interactive Brokers by special endorsement) or checks for a deposit to an IBKR account, where the check is from someone other than a named account holder.
Exceptions are: checks from anyone with the same last name and address as the account holder (i.e. husbands, wives, children); for organization accounts, checks from any named person affiliated with the account (i.e. officers, traders, owners, etc.).
- Credit card checks
- Money orders
- Travelers checks
- Foreign checks or other instruments
- Home Equity Line of Credit Checks
- Check referring to more than one IBKR account (IBKR does not split the proceeds from one check into multiple accounts)
- Checks that appear altered in any way
- Wire transfers referring to more than one IBKR account (IBKR does not split the proceeds from one wire into multiple accounts)
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