Finding branch address from IBAN

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agrinnall
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My internet banking requires the address of the receiving bank in order to process a SWIFT payment. Does anyone know if there's somewhere online that I can key in the IBAN and find out the details of the branch?

I have emailed the payee to ask them for the address so I will get it eventually but I was just interested to know if there's a way to do it myself.
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  • Hazzanet
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    Do you know the BIC code as well as the IBAN? If so:

    http://www.swift.com/bsl/facelets/bicsearch.faces
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  • dzug1
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    If you know the sort code and account number (easily derivable from the IBAN)

    http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/demos/bankvalidator.aspx

    will help. Assuming it's a UK bank of course.
  • Hazzanet
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    dzug1 wrote: »
    Assuming it's a UK bank of course.

    Would suggest it isn't as same day UK payments would be done by FP or CHAPS as opposed to SWIFT.
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  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    Hazzanet wrote: »
    Do you know the BIC code as well as the IBAN? If so:

    http://www.swift.com/bsl/facelets/bicsearch.faces

    Thanks Hazzanet, I do have the BIC and the search has returned an address, I'll wait until I hear back from the payee whether it's actually the right one but it's certainly found the right city (Barcelona). As you correctly surmised it's not a UK bank, I'm not even sure if it's possible to do a UK to UK SWIFT payment (although of course I could have been initiating from outside the UK, but that's a lot of assumptions to make when the obvious scenario would be UK to overseas).
  • Marksfish
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    You could try http://www.xe.com/idt/ (IBAN decoder tool)

    Mark
  • Olipro
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    agrinnall wrote: »
    Thanks Hazzanet, I do have the BIC and the search has returned an address, I'll wait until I hear back from the payee whether it's actually the right one but it's certainly found the right city (Barcelona). As you correctly surmised it's not a UK bank, I'm not even sure if it's possible to do a UK to UK SWIFT payment (although of course I could have been initiating from outside the UK, but that's a lot of assumptions to make when the obvious scenario would be UK to overseas).

    it's possible, albeit silly, and therefore, not generally done.
  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    Marksfish wrote: »
    You could try http://www.xe.com/idt/ (IBAN decoder tool)

    Mark


    Thanks for that Mark, I now have the branch number (3290 - bank is La Caixa) but my Spanish isn't good enough to find my way round their website to a point where I can use that to locate the branch address - unless anyone out there can do it (pretty please)?
  • Hazzanet
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    lacaixa.png

    Hope that helps.
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  • Mike1901
    Mike1901 Posts: 70 Forumite
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    This may help :)
  • benjus
    benjus Posts: 5,433 Forumite
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    Branch 3290 gives the following address:

    PLAÇA DEL TEATRE C. LA RAMBLA, 30 08002
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