Lloyds/TSB account numbers

jonesMUFCforever

60 might be savings 68 current or the other way round.

SnowTiger

Most Sort Codes and Account numbers can be modulus checked, although I don't know what algorithm is used.

This document suggests that banks can design their own.

Maybe that explains why the account numbers end with a zero.

Maybe it's coincidence.

Interestingly, I've just checked my TSB bank account number and that ends with a zero too.

It begins with a 2, which suggests account numbers are not generated in sequence.

Bestselling_Author

I spent four years as an Open & Close clerk for a high street bank (in the late 80s and early 90s). I know the system has changed now, but at the time the second digit of the account number denoted account type: 0 for current a/c, 1 for savings, 4 for mortgage, 5 for personal loan.

Then for current accounts, the third and fourth digits represented (roughly) alphabetical order, so accounts with surnames beginning A or B had a third or fourth digit ranging from 00 to 09 and surnames beginning with Z had a 99 third and fourth digit.

This did actually make allocating account numbers quite difficult (some surnames are common in different areas of the country). Just before I left the bank automatic account number allocation came in and all that went out of the window, which was a shame because you could tell a lot of info from an account number!

Anyway, sorry, but that was rather a long way of saying that it's possible other banks do have a system for using specific numbers in account numbers for categorising accounts!

BookerTee

I have just had a look at mine, four end in 68 and one in 60 but they all start with 30.
My five Lloyds account also end in either 68 or 60 so I guess its fairly common!

hostertlady

its a nuisance when your current account card looks very similar to your credit card too!
i used my credit card the other day even though i meant to use my current account card! i must concentrate more....

Vortigern

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

60 might be savings 68 current or the other way round.

Mine are all 60s and 68s - but they're all current accounts

badger09

Lloyds 4 x 60 & 1 X 68 (the savings is 60)

TSB 4 X 68 & 1 X 60 (all current)

Of the Lloyds, 2 end in the same 4 digits, which makes paying with paypal a bit like Russian Roulette :eek:

Won't be a problem for much longer though