Chaps clearing banks

Miss_Havisham

I know that about 20 or so banks are members of CHAPS and that all other banks and building societies clear through one or other of these CHAPS members.

Is it published anywhere which CHAPS member these non-clearers clear through ?

Thanks

Miss H

DevCoder

There's about 4,500 indirect clearers going to the 19 direct clearers, which bank are you interested in?

JuicyJesus

If you provide the sort code of the bank or building society you're interested in, it will likely be immediately obvious from that.

Barclays sort codes start 2, Lloyds start 3 (or 77), HSBC/Midland start 4, and NatWest have a whole heap of different sort codes mostly starting 5 or 6.

agrinnall

I'm not sure that what JuicyJesus suggets will help, the OP is looking for which of the 19 CHAPS member banks performs CHAPS processing for the banks that aren't members. Knowing the sortcode of the non-member bank doesn't appear to help, I can't find anything that is available for free that would give any detail of the member bank that is used. I suspect the information is available via the link below, but at a cost of £1680 + VAT per year.

http://www.vocalink.com/products/payments/customer-support-services/sort-code-directory.aspx

rb10

In many cases the sort code will direct you towards the clearing bank.

E.g. Norwich & Peterborough's sort code is 08-60-81, suggesting that the Co-op is their clearing bank.

dzug1

Not a complete list - but if you have an account with one of the non member banks the Swift Code may appear on your statement.

It does on my Nationwide account and suggests that NW use HSBC

Agricolae

Although I'm aware of tools which should show the bank used for CHAPS clearing at agency banks, I believe these are only available to the banks themselves.

The tool I'm thinking of shows the SWIFT code of the bank used for CHAPS clearing for a given sort code. From this you'd be able to get the name of the bank providing the clearing services.

Try: http://www.theswiftcodes.com/united-kingdom/

pinkdalek

Does this website help?

http://www.chapsco.co.uk/

Tells you about current members and how CHAPS works etc