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The Industry Sorting Code Directory (ISCD) is the definitive list of bank branches and sub branches in the United Kingdom.The directory is maintained by VocaLink on behalf of UK Payments Administration (formally APACS).
Because SWIFT originally introduced what was later standardized as Business Identifier Codes (BICs), they are still often called SWIFT addresses or codes. The 2009 update of ISO 9362 broadened the scope to include non-financial institutions; before then BIC was commonly understood to be an acronym for Bank Identifier 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]
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 (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). Those countries which use International Bank Account Numbers (IBAN) have mostly integrated the bank code into the prefix of specifying IBAN account numbers.
SWIFT messages consist of five blocks of data including three headers, message content, and a trailer. Message types are crucial to identifying content. All SWIFT messages include the literal "MT" (message type/text [2]). This is followed by a three-digit number that denotes the message category, group and type. Consider the following two examples.
ISO 20022 is an ISO standard for electronic data interchange between financial institutions.It describes a metadata repository containing descriptions of messages and business processes, and a maintenance process for the repository content.
MT940 is a specific SWIFT message type used by the SWIFT network to send and receive end-of-day bank account statements. [1]Message Type 940 is the SWIFT standard (Banking Communication Standard) for the electronic transmission of account statement data.