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 ...

Many Americans are using digital financial institutions, such as Chime®, for their primary checking accounts. However, Chime is not actually a bank — it’s a financial technology company — which can ...

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.

Here’s what a routing number is and why all savings accounts have them. Image source: Getty Images. The short answer is yes. U.S.-based savings accounts all have routing numbers. A routing number ...

When Mastercard was blindsided in the final weeks of the year by a proposed consent order with the Federal Trade Commission around violations of debit-routing rules, a key question was how Visa and ...

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc.’s security tokens restrict debit-card routing competition on online payments, according to people familiar with the ...

The department is looking into the network’s rules for routing transactions both in stores and online, according to a person familiar with the matter. Representatives for Visa and the Justice ...

Visa is making its common application identifier available for Discover's Pulse debit network, marking the latest in a string of agreements that pave the way for EMV debit card acceptance in the U.S. ...