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The previous edition is ISO 9362:2009 (dated 2009-10-01). The SWIFT code is 8 or 11 characters, made up of: 4 letters: institution code or bank code. 2 letters: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (exceptionally, SWIFT has assigned the code XK to Republic of Kosovo, which does not have an ISO 3166-1 country code) 2 letters or digits: location code
SWIFT or BIC codes are sometimes used with International Bank Account Numbers, or IBANs. An IBAN identifies a particular bank account. If a transfer uses IBANs, it’ll use both the sender’s and ...
See SWIFT Standards. Each financial institution is assigned an ISO 9362 code, also called a Bank Identifier Code (BIC) or SWIFT Code. These codes are generally eight characters long. [20] For example: Deutsche Bank is an international bank with its head office in Frankfurt, Germany, the SWIFT Code for which is DEUTDEFF: DEUT identifies Deutsche ...
As of 2018, around half of all high-value cross-border payments worldwide used the Swift network, [3] and in 2015, Swift linked more than 11,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries and territories, who were exchanging an average of over 32 million messages per day (compared to an average of 2.4 million daily messages in 1995).
Also the name of bank codes varies. In some countries the bank codes can be viewed over the internet, but mostly in the local language. The (national) bank codes differ from the international Bank Identifier Code (BIC/ISO 9362, a normalized code - also known as Business Identifier Code, Bank International Code and SWIFT code).
Routing information as specified by ISO 9362 (also known as Business Identifier Codes (BIC), SWIFT ID or SWIFT code, and SWIFT-BIC) does not require a specific format for the transaction so the identification of accounts and transaction types is left to agreements of the transaction partners. It also does not contain check digits, so errors of ...
SWIFT cooperates with international organizations to define standards for message format and content. CIPS also subscribes to registration authority (RA) for the following ISO standards: [10] ISO 9362: 1994 Banking—Banking telecommunication messages—Bank identifier codes
Bank Identifier Codes (BIC) Also known as SWIFT codes [5] ISO 13616: International Bank Account Number (IBAN) [6] ISO 15511: International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL) UN/LOCODE: United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations Implemented by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe [7]