A numerical code assigned to each federally insured financial institution for the routing of transactions and other purposes. Independent Sales Organizations (ISO) and Merchant Level SalespersonsMLSs board merchants using the BINs of their respective acquiring banks.
As we discussed earlier in How Credit Card Numbers Are Determined, the card assocations (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, etc) all have a unique way of starting their account numbers for consumers. However, they all have something in common: the way the number is determined, called the mod-10 or Luhn's method.
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