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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.
The first two digits of the sort code identify the bank (90-xx-xx = [Bank of Ireland], 98-xx-xx = [Ulster Bank], for example) and the last 4 identify the branch. There is an exception with 99-xx-xx - these codes are used for international banks Irish Clearing ACs, and some Post Office accounts.
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 Examples include: Germany/Austria: Bankleitzahl (BLZ) – superseded by and incorporated into the IBAN as part of SEPA standardization; Switzerland: Bankenclearing-Nummer (BC-Nummer) Australia: Bank-State-Branch (BSB)
National Westminster Bank USA, commonly known as NatWest USA, was a wholly owned subsidiary of National Westminster Bank in the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1996. Formed as the National Bank of North America in 1905, the U.S. retail banking operation was sold to Fleet Financial Group in 1996.
ISO 13616: 2003 IBAN Registry; ISO 15022: 1999 Securities – Scheme for messages (Data Field Dictionary) (replaces ISO 7775) ISO 20022-1: 2004 and ISO 20022-2:2007 Financial services – Universal Financial Industry message scheme; In RFC 3615 urn:swift: was defined as Uniform Resource Names (URNs) for SWIFT FIN. [20]
NatWest was the main sponsor of the Island Games (known at the time as the NatWest Island Games) from 1999 through to 2019. NatWest CommunityForce is "a platform that empowers local projects and charities to raise awareness of their work and make their plans a reality with the support of NatWest and their local community." [119]
The CLABE (Clave Bancaria Estandarizada, Spanish for "standardized banking cipher" or "standardized bank code") is a banking standard for the numbering of bank accounts in Mexico.
Any process towards IBAN would involve considerable changes to bank software and computer systems, and the requirement for financial institutions to adopt defined length account numbers. Outgoing international transfers must use either the SWIFT or IBAN system in use in the destination country, which would incorporate that country's format for ...