The moment should ring familiar to most of us. You need access to your bank account for one reason or another and it needs you to provide your bank routing number. Too long for you to memorize, too ...

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.