It is CHEQUE truncation, not bank truncation.
It will help speed up the clearance of cheques from the present 4 days to 3 days and eventually to 24 hours [by year end]
Essentially; if give me a cheque drawn on your EQTY account and I bank it in my KCB account, my bank will take a digital photo of the cheque and send it to your bank.
Your bank will then verify signature and amount and communicate to my bank. If all is OK my bank will pay the money to me. In short, clearance will be done without physical movement of the cheque.
Evenvtually, the banks will link up their databases so that clearance will be done "in-house" within 24 hours. That is, when I bank the cheque in my KCB account, my bank will retrieve your signature from EQTY database and verify it. Then the amount will be keyed in and an Ok or Not Ok message will be replied {NB: my bank will not get to know your account balance - just whether there are enough funds; same way they do with debit cards}.
If you are an honest person, then this is a great move' but if you like "playing" around with the long clearance time, then this is bad for you.
BTW: the network deal was worn by SCOM
Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.