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Overview


Online Directories is an online query tool that provides you with:

  • single access to the content of  all SWIFT Directories, including the BIC directory, the BICPlusIBAN directory, the SEPA Routing directory and the Countries, Currencies and Holidays directory.
  • daily updates (which makes it the most up-to-date BIC data query tool in the market)
  • a search function on history data, including deleted BICs. This allows you to pull reports on added, deleted, or modified BICs within a specific period/country.

   
You receive a 15 days free trial when you order!

Financial institutions, corporates and others use Online Directories to:

  • Validate the BIC
  • Look-up the BIC for an institution’s name and address
  • Translate the beneficiary’s BIC into its national clearing/sort code
  • Look-up whether an institution is connected to SWIFTf
  • Look-up through which payment systems an institution can be reached
  • Look-up an institution’s SWIFT user category
  • Validate that the beneficiary bank is adherent to the EPC agreement (SEPA)
  • Look-up the BIC of an intermediary institution if it is not reachable directly (SEPA)
  • Look-up the (preferred) choice of SEPA-capable ACH channels to the beneficiary institution
  • Derive the SEPA BIC from the IBAN
  • Validate IBANs, BICs and IBAN/BIC combinations
  • Look-up BIC modifications, history changes
  • Get an overview of added and deleted BICs

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