Rebecca Lake is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF) and a banking expert. She's been writing about personal finance since 2014, and her work has appeared in numerous publications online.

The world of smartphones has made us all a little less likely to remember important strings of numbers. While convenient, our reliance on them for everything from a significant other’s cell number to ...

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