Belgium IBAN

Anatomy of the official example

BE68539007547034

• Country code
• Check digits
• Bank code
• Account number
• National check or other

The example comes from the ISO 13616 registry; it belongs to nobody. Positions count from the first character of the IBAN.

What the API checks on a Belgium IBAN

• The length, the charset of every field and the mod-97 check digits.
• The bank code against Banque nationale de Belgique, bank identification codes (Protocol Secretariat); also available free of charge on the website of the National Bank of Belgium (www.nbb.be), refreshed monthly: institution, matching BIC, status.
• The country's SEPA reachability and the open schemes (SCT, SDD, SCT Inst).
• The Verification of Payee duty that does, or does not, bind the country's providers.

What the API answers for this code

The API checks this country's bank codes against Banque nationale de Belgique, bank identification codes (Protocol Secretariat); also available free of charge on the website of the National Bank of Belgium (www.nbb.be). We serve that register from a private file rather than publish it, so its answer to this example is not copied here: it is computed live, on the request. Try the example in the playground