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Sort codes are the domestic bank codes used to route money transfers between financial institutions in the United Kingdom, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland. They are six-digit hierarchical numerical addresses that specify clearing banks, clearing systems, regions, large financial institutions, groups of financial institutions and ultimately resolve to individual branches.
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 with up to thirty alphanumeric characters. The BBAN includes the domestic bank account number and potentially routing information.
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 ISCD is used by organisations to check the validity of sorting codes, which, combined with modulus checking of the bank account number and sorting code, is essential for successful Direct Debit and BACS Credit transactions. The information contained within the ISCD is subject to frequent changes.
The first 17 digits of the CLABE are, as mentioned above, the Bank Code, the Branch Office Code and the Account Number. The weight factor of a given digit is: 3 if its position (starting at 0) modulus 3 is 0; 7 if its position modulus 3 is 1; 1 if its position modulus 3 is 2; A 17 digit weight is always "37137137137137137". The method is:
International Bank Account Number; ISO 9362; N. ... Shaba Number; Sort code This page was last edited on 30 August 2022, at 06:39 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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where B is the bank number (2 digits), b is the branch number (4 digits), A is the account number (7 digits) and S are digits of the suffix (2 or 3 digits). Where a bank displays the suffix as two digits, a leading zero is added to pad the suffix to three digits; i.e. BB-bbbb-AAAAAAA-SS becomes BB-bbbb-AAAAAAA-0SS.