Autonomous system
AS11744 INVESTEC
Unclassified AFRINIC Enterprise
Summary
Investec Bank Ltd
enterprise legacy
INVESTEC is Investec Bank Ltd, the South African arm of the Investec banking and wealth-management group. The address space is the giveaway on geography: every prefix registers in AFRINIC under ORG-IBL1-AFRINIC, and 196.4.0.0/16 is African space. Investec Bank Limited is the Johannesburg-registered entity, distinct from Investec Bank plc in the UK.
What it's used for
The bank's own corporate and public-facing edge. RIS sees 6 IPv4 prefixes, 1,280 addresses, no IPv6, and 18 observed neighbours. All six prefixes are registered to Investec Bank Ltd itself, so registrant and originator are the same party and no third-party space is in play.
Notable
The neighbour count deserves the explanation, because eighteen adjacencies against only 1,280 addresses looks disproportionate at first glance. It is not a transit signal. It is what a bank in a well-peered market looks like: financial institutions in South Africa connect at local exchanges such as JINX and NAPAfrica, where a single port yields many BGP sessions at once. Peering widely while announcing a tiny inventory is the opposite of a carrier's shape — a carrier has many neighbours because it moves other people's traffic, whereas this AS has many neighbours to shorten the path to its own customers' banking sessions. It sells no connectivity onward.
Interesting
The deaggregation is heavy for the size — a /23 plus five /24s covering barely more than a thousand addresses. Announcing the /23 alongside its component /24s is a standard defensive and traffic-engineering move: the more specifics steer traffic per-peer, and the covering prefix keeps reachability if a specific is dropped. For a bank, where a hijack of a customer-facing prefix is a fraud vector rather than an inconvenience, that redundancy is a security posture as much as a routing one.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.10.1 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-29, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS11744- Registry name
- ORG-IBL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Investec Bank Ltd
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2026-06-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Investecbank
- Network type
- Enterprise
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Selective
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- https://www.investec.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11744
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS11744
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere