- Bank code
A Bank Code is a
code assigned by acentral bank , a Bank Supervisory Body or aBankers Association in a country assigned to all its licensed memberbank s. The rules vary to great extent between the countries. Also the name of such a code varies. In some countries the bank codes can be viewed over the internet, but mostly in the local language.The term Bank Code is sometimes (inappropriately) used by merchants referring to the
Card Security Code printed on a credit card.Examples
Those countries that have
International Bank Account Number s mostly make use of the bank code in specifying IBAN account numbers.The
American Bankers Association has since 1910 used nine-digitrouting transit number s to identify banks in the United States of America, which are used in the automated processing of cheques.Canada uses a "transit number" made up by eight digits, with a hyphen after the fifth one.
Australia has a six-digit prefix to a bank account number that indicates the bank and branch of the account. The prefix is known as the "
Bank State Branch " or BSB code.The UK uses a six digit sort code.
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Sort code External links
* [http://www.bnb.be/pub/07_00_00_00_00/07_06_00_00_00/07_06_02_00_00.htm?l=fr&t=fi List of Belgian Bank Codes]
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