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IBAN (ISO 13616)

Defines the International Bank Account Number, a standardized account identifier of up to 34 alphanumeric characters including a country code and check digits. SWIFT acts as the registration authority and publishes the per-country IBAN formats.

Category
Payments
Steward organization
ISO
Scope
International bank account number format
Status
Active
Machine-readable
Primarily documentation for humans
Official source
www.iso.org

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Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.

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