BIN 475731 — Visa Classic Debit Card (United Kingdom)
- Card Brand
- Visa
- BIN / IIN length
- 6
- Card Type
- Debit
- Card Level
- Classic
- Issuer Name / Bank
- SANTANDER UK PLC
- Issuer's / Bank's Website
- www.santander.co.uk
- Issuer / Bank Phone
- Available with API
- Commercial Card?
- Available with API
- Prepaid Card?
- Available with API
- Reloadable Card?
- Available with API
- ISO Country Name
- United Kingdom
- Country Flag
- 🇬🇧
- ISO Country Code (A2)
- GB
- ISO Country Code (A3)
- GBR
- ISO Country Currency
- GBP
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The free lookup above accepts 6–8 digit BINs and shows essentials — issuer, brand, type and country. The BinCheck API returns the full record up to 11-digit BIN/IIN: commercial and prepaid flags, reloadable status, bank contact details, BIN+IP match data, and dozens of metadata fields in one clean JSON response.
- Commercial card detection
- Prepaid card indicator
- Reloadable status
- Bank website
- Bank phone
- Issuer metadata
- Country metadata
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About BIN 475731
BIN 475731 is a Debit Visa card range issued by SANTANDER UK PLC in United Kingdom. Here is a plain-English breakdown of what each field means and how businesses use it.
- Issuing bank
- SANTANDER UK PLC
- Card brand
- Visa
- Country
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom
- Card type
- Debit
- Funding type
- Debit (deposit account)
- BIN / IIN length
- 6 digits
How BINs work
A Bank Identification Number (BIN) — also called an Issuer Identification Number (IIN) — is the first 6 to 8 digits of a payment card number. The first digit is the Major Industry Identifier (MII), and the leading digits identify the card network. Together they map a card to the institution that issued it.
Card networks assign BIN ranges to issuing banks, so every card in a range shares the same issuer, brand, country and product type. Decoding the BIN reveals who stands behind a card before a single charge is authorized.
Why merchants use BIN verification
Checking the BIN at checkout lets merchants route payments intelligently, surface the right local payment methods, and apply risk rules — for example flagging a mismatch between the card's issuing country and the shopper's IP address.
BIN data also powers fraud prevention (spotting card-testing and BIN-attack patterns), interchange optimization, and cleaner analytics — which is why payment teams pull it programmatically through an API rather than checking cards one by one.
