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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
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), legally S.W.I.F.T. SC, is a cooperative established in 1973 in Belgium (French: Société Coopérative) and owned by the banks and other member firms that use its service. SWIFT provides the main messaging network through which international payments are initiated. [2]
Discover Financial Services, Inc. is an American financial services company that owns and operates Discover Bank, an online bank that offers checking and savings accounts, personal loans, home equity loans, and credit cards. It also owns and operates the Discover and Pulse networks, and owns Diners Club International.
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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 Bank.
Pulse is an interbank electronic funds transfer (EFT) network in the United States.It serves more than 4,400 U.S. financial institutions and includes more than 380,000 ATMs, as well as POS terminals nationwide.
Payment card numbers are composed of 8 to 19 digits, [1] The leading six or eight digits are the issuer identification number (IIN) sometimes referred to as the bank identification number (BIN). [ 2 ] : 33 [ 3 ] The remaining numbers, except the last digit, are the individual account identification number.
In February 2024, Capital One announced it planned to acquire Discover Financial for over $35 billion. [1] [2] [3]In September 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division instituted new guidelines which call for stricter reviews of bank deals.