Rebecca Lake is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF) and a banking expert. She's been writing about personal finance since 2014, and her work has appeared in numerous publications online.

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.

You may see routing and account numbers on checks written on your account and wonder what they mean. They are the two sets of numbers that banks rely on to ensure the money moves between the correct ...

The amount of numbers people have to memorize in today’s digital world are fewer and fewer. Whether it’s phone numbers, PINs, credit card numbers or general account information, there is no need to ...

A paper check has three essential numbers to pay attention to. You can find these three sets of numbers at the bottom of the check in the following order. A routing number is a unique nine-digit ...

Bank account numbers are a unique set of seven to 12 digits listed at the bottom of a paper cheque. Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who compensate us when you click to or ...

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Your account number is located at the bottom of a check — it’s the second set of numbers, between the nine-digit routing number and the check number. The routing number comes first — it’s the ...

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 ...

Adam Barone is an award-winning journalist and the proprietor of ContentOven.com. He has 5+ years of experience as a content strategist/editor. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and ...