Italy IBAN

Anatomy of the official example

IT60X0542811101000000123456

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

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

Some of this country's bank codes are additionally named by a supervisor's list, which we serve one page each — but that list does not publish the allocation of the code space, so a code missing from it is not a code that was never issued.

What the API checks on a Italy IBAN

• The length, the charset of every field and the mod-97 check digits.
• The bank code against Banca d'Italia, registers of banks, payment institutions and e-money institutions (Albi ed elenchi di vigilanza, https://infostat.bancaditalia.it/GIAVAInquiry-public/ng/#/area-download, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, normalised and joined by IBANforge; Poste Italiane and branches of EU payment institutions hold ABI codes outside these registers, so an absence is not a non-allocation): the holder of every code it lists, without the weight of a register that settles a negative; the other codes against our composite map.
• 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 block below is the route's own answer, produced by the same code that serves api.ibanforge.com, on the register as of the date shown. Nothing is edited.

{
  "valid": true,
  "country": {
    "code": "IT",
    "name": "Italy"
  },
  "bic": null,
  "bank_code_check": {
    "value": "05428",
    "status": "verified",
    "match": "register",
    "register": "Banca d'Italia, registers of banks, payment institutions and e-money institutions (Albi ed elenchi di vigilanza, https://infostat.bancaditalia.it/GIAVAInquiry-public/ng/#/area-download, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, normalised and joined by IBANforge; Poste Italiane and branches of EU payment institutions hold ABI codes outside these registers, so an absence is not a non-allocation)",
    "authoritative": false,
    "retired": true,
    "retired_on": "2017-02-19",
    "superseded_by": "03069",
    "institution": {
      "name": "BANCA POPOLARE DI BERGAMO S.P.A.",
      "street": null,
      "post_code": null,
      "town": null,
      "country": "IT"
    },
    "as_of": "2026-10"
  },
  "sepa": {
    "member": true,
    "vop_required": true
  },
  "issuer": null,
  "risk_indicators": {
    "country_risk": "standard",
    "sepa_reachable": true,
    "vop_coverage": true,
    "test_bic": false
  }
}