Structure of Credit Card & Debit Card Numbers with BINĪn ISO/IEC 7812 number is up to 19 digits in length and used the following format

This information is very useful in commercial business for fraud prevention, especially in online store. It is commonly used in credit cards and debit cards, stored-value cards, gift cards and other similar cards.īIN is beneficial to identify a card brand, issuing institution or bank, country of issuance, card type and category of cards. Bank Identification Number (“BIN”) or Issuer identification number (“IIN”) is the first six digits of a bank card number or payment cards number and it is part of ISO/IEC 7812.