Bank Identification Number (BIN) List
A credit card number always contains a prefix of 6 digits known as the Issuer Identification Number (IIN) which identify the credit card network that issued the card. I could only find three well-known places to find a list of bank identification numbers (BIN) online:
- Mars Banks Base, a donateware application with about 60k BIN numbers for Visa, AMEX, and Mastercard
- The now-defunct Dumpz.biz and dumpz.us binlist, another collection of BIN numbers
- Wikipedia even has a List of Bank Identification Numbers
I’ve compiled them into a CSV file with the following information: BIN, location, type, name, and phone number. You can download bank-bin-list and unzip it.
If you’re a merchant interested in a solution using the BIN/IIN numbers to validate credit cards to lower the risk of fraud, you should check out Service Object’s DOTS BIN Validation webservice, which can validate 95% of MasterCard and Visa card types.
Update: The zip file opens fine, don’t message me about it:
[zzz@elliottback ~]# wget elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bank-bin-list.zip
[zzz@elliottback ~]# unzip bank-bin-list.zip
Archive: bank-bin-list.zip
inflating: Copy of bank bin list.csv
[zzz@elliottback ~]# head Copy\ of\ bank\ bin\ list.csv
BIN#,Location,Type,Name,Phone #
370370,UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,Amex,AMEX PLATINUM,