[hgomersall]

Just to add to this excellent answer, because I don't think it's clear to most people: if the deposit is not created by that bank, the assets the bank takes on are the balancing side of the original deposit (so a loan at another correspondent bank or, if the spending was from the government, an asset at the central bank). Clearing might simplify the net situation, but fundamentally the asset the bank takes on matches the original asset that created the money.