The ABA would be a lot more interesting if we were talking to you about basketball. Instead, it represents the American Bankers Association, founded in 1875, and basically exists to represent the interests of banks in America.
Deregulate us! Our mortgage practices are just fine! Hey, how's about everybody use a standardized routing number system, so we can all talk to each other, hm? Hey, Fed, don't make us keep much in reserve...everything's gonna be just fine. Don't put guidelines around how we allocate risk when we give loans to customers! That's our business. We know what we're doing, thank you very much.
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finance a la shmoop what is a routing number of a routing number is so that
wired monies can you know like find their way home yeah think of them like [maze game]
the smell of worm to Canadian geese when you write a check or wire money or do [worms and Canadian geese]
almost anything financial these days the dough is given a kind of custom [card getting swiped]
electronic signature and basically a number a big fat one like this one yeah
and the numbers mean specific things like on a paper check the routing of the
dough you're paying to Lana sim for um you know services rendered comes in two [breakdown of a check]
pieces there's a nine digit routing number aka our TN aka routing transit
number which is here and that number is then mapped to your specific account
number which is here why did you need this number why do you need it at all
well when you suddenly see an item on your bank statement for a payment of [bank statement document]
$350 to Yamaka supply limited and you're about as Jewish as the Pope well you may [Pope Francis in the Vatican]
want your bank to be able to track that sucker down because it was fraud on your
account I'd like to be able to prove that you were not in fact the one who
authorized that payment so your bank can refund you you know your hard-earned
cash all right there we go much better yeah I am
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