What Is a Bank Card Number?

The bank card number refers to the serial number code on the hard card issued by each bank, and the business number segment between each commercial bank has uniform regulations. The first 6 digits of the card number represent the issuing bank identification code, also called the BIN number. Different BIN numbers represent different bank card organizations and card levels.

Bank card number

The People's Bank of China issues business number segments to various commercial banks uniformly, and the number segments of each bank are different.

Bank card

Once the bank card is designated for ownership, the basic information, amount and transaction status entered into the customer will be transmitted to the central bank in time, and a lot of information such as prevention of money laundering and statistics will be aggregated into the central bank's database, a medium that facilitates unified financial management.

Bank cards are not useful except for recording customer information and capital flow information. Magnetic, easy to demagnetize with mobile phone.