BIN 489577 — Lookup & Card Details

BIN 489577 is issued by Access Bank Botswana Limited, from Botswana, on the Visa network, as a prepaid card.

A Bank Identification Number (BIN, or Issuer Identification Number / IIN) is the first 6 to 8 digits of any payment card. It tells the payment network which institution issued the card, what kind of card it is, and where it was issued. For BIN 489577, that institution is Access Bank Botswana Limited in Botswana. The card runs on the Visa network. Transactions settle in BWP.

Visa is the world's largest card network, with cards beginning with the digit 4 and accepted in virtually every country.

Payment processors read these digits on every transaction: they drive routing decisions, currency handling at checkout, fraud scoring and card-product acceptance rules. BIN 489577 carries no personal information: it maps to an issuing institution and card program, never to an individual account or person.