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 ...

In today’s world of electronic banking, knowing how to find your bank’s routing number is important. You need this number along with your account number or check number for things like: The routing ...

In today’s world of electronic banking, it’s common to need a bank’s routing number, such as for a direct deposit form or to set up a money transfer from one bank to another. A routing number, also ...

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 ...

Your bank account comes with its own unique number, known as your account number. Your bank also has its own unique ID, referred to as the routing number. You don’t need to memorize these sets of ...

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 ...

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 ...