Nigerian Bank Verification Number (BVN)

ID ng_bvn

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft

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Bank Verification Number, a biometric identifier of bank customers in Nigeria introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2014 and run with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS). One person has one BVN across all banks. It has 11 digits. No check-digit rule is published, and it has the same shape as the National Identification Number (NIN).

Categories: Personally identifiable information, Person related, Finances and banking
Countries: Nigeria
Languages: Common to most languages
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Regular expression

^\d{11}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
22158306471	Synthetic value in the documented format
22390417582	Synthetic value in the documented format
2215830647A invalid	Letters are not allowed

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Verification_Number

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