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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

When wading into the world of banking, it’s easy to wonder if credit cards have routing numbers. After all, other accounts have routing numbers and your credit card has a 16-digit number slapped on it ...