GetAccountInformation service

You use this service to retrieve the account category information. You use this information to help you determine what type of organisation an account belongs to. Currently this data is only available for United Kingdom accounts.

Before you can call this service, you must have either validated or verified a United Kingdom account or validated a United Kingdom IBAN.

To get the account category, you must supply the data access key returned by Validate, ValidateIBAN or Verify.

This service returns Categorization. The possible values are:

Bank
BuildingSociety
Business
CentralGovernment
Charity
CreditUnion
LocalGovernment
Unknown.

Example SOAP messages

Request

<soapenv:Body>

<ban:DataAccessKey language="en">

<ns:dataAccessKey>...</ns:dataAccessKey>

</ban:DataAccessKey>

</soapenv:Body>

Response

<soap:Body>

<Categorization xmlns="http://experianpayments.com/bankwizard/xsd/2011/04">LocalGovernment</Categorization>

</AccountInformation>

</soap:Body>