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Nonunique prefixes across banks

Open khasanovbi opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Hello, now in the database there are 2 prefixes that are found in several banks. Can we fix this to make the definition of the Bank unambiguous?

451751 - ar/icbc and us/bankofamerica 528625 - us/chase and za/virginmoney

khasanovbi avatar Jul 26 '19 23:07 khasanovbi

@khasanovbi @ramoona should we do something based on the locale of the user? for eg: if 123456 is available for us and in 123456 - us/jpmorgan and in/hdfc based on locale check locale: en_in will return in/hdfc and en_us will return us/jpmorgan

vikram-mudaliar avatar Mar 09 '20 13:03 vikram-mudaliar

@vikram-mudaliar, it can be done but it's totally a task for BanksDB users, not for the BanksDB itself. maybe I could slightly expand the API to provide all the matches (along with countries) so that you could decide for yourself which bank to use? also, remember that locale is not a very accurate way to detect user's country. for example I live in Russia but I use Eng locale on my system

ramoona avatar Mar 09 '20 14:03 ramoona