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A typical British bank statement header (from a fictitious bank), showing the location of the account's IBAN. The International Bank Account Number (IBAN) is an internationally agreed upon system of identifying bank accounts across national borders to facilitate the communication and processing of cross border transactions with a reduced risk of transcription errors.
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Other countries, however, have or had codes which are equivalent to sort codes, but with formats unique to the country concerned. Examples include: Germany/Austria: Bankleitzahl (BLZ) – superseded by and incorporated into the IBAN as part of SEPA standardization; Switzerland: Bankenclearing-Nummer (BC-Nummer) Australia: Bank-State-Branch (BSB)
Templates relating to present-day sovereign countries (regardless of continent). For country templates organized by continent, see Country templates by continent . For templates relating to non-sovereign or disputed territories , see, respectively, Territory (non-sovereign) templates or Disputed territory templates .
The IBAN was originally developed to facilitate payments within the European Union but the format is flexible enough to be applied globally. It consists of an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, followed by two check digits that are calculated using a mod-97 technique, and Basic Bank Account Number ( BBAN ) with up to thirty alphanumeric characters.
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This category is limited to the country data templates for the countries in Wikipedia's list of sovereign states.For dependent territories such as the insular areas of the United States and subnational "countries" such as the constituent countries of the United Kingdom, see the categories for the respective sovereign states in Category:Subnational country data templates.
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