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Finance: What is a Routing Number? 20 Views


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You've seen routing numbers on checks before, but what do they actually do? Hit play to find out.

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finance a la shmoop what is a routing number of a routing number is so that

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wired monies can you know like find their way home yeah think of them like [maze game]

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the smell of worm to Canadian geese when you write a check or wire money or do [worms and Canadian geese]

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almost anything financial these days the dough is given a kind of custom [card getting swiped]

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electronic signature and basically a number a big fat one like this one yeah

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and the numbers mean specific things like on a paper check the routing of the

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dough you're paying to Lana sim for um you know services rendered comes in two [breakdown of a check]

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pieces there's a nine digit routing number aka our TN aka routing transit

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number which is here and that number is then mapped to your specific account

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number which is here why did you need this number why do you need it at all

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well when you suddenly see an item on your bank statement for a payment of [bank statement document]

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$350 to Yamaka supply limited and you're about as Jewish as the Pope well you may [Pope Francis in the Vatican]

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want your bank to be able to track that sucker down because it was fraud on your

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account I'd like to be able to prove that you were not in fact the one who

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authorized that payment so your bank can refund you you know your hard-earned

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cash all right there we go much better yeah I am

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