Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as well ...

The bottom line of every bank or credit union check is preprinted with a sequence of numbers and symbols below the memo space and signature line. These numbers and symbols contain important ...

We see it every time we write a check, but we don’t think much about it — the bank’s routing number. It is the first set of numbers at the bottom of every check you write. It is the bank’s ...

Every check has a routing number, and you might occasionally be asked to provide this routing number when linking an online account to a checking or savings account at your local bank or credit union.

Least Cost Routing (LCR) or 'merchant-choice routing' is when a payment is routed via the cheapest option for a merchant when a customer makes a contactless dual-network debit card transaction. LCR ...

The routing number serves as an identifier that distinguishes a particular bank from all others. Large banks may have a different routing number for each state in which they have a branch, and some ...

This nine-digit number identifies your bank or credit union in a financial transaction. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when you ...

Your routing number is a combination of two sets of banking numbers that can be found on your cheques: the transit number and the institution number. Many or all of the products featured here are from ...

Renee Sylvestre-Williams is a finance and business reporter. In her more than 10 years of journalism, her work has been published in the Globe and Mail, Flare, Canadian Living, Canadian Business, the ...