Italian bank code 03646
N26 BANK SE, MILANO
| ABI code | 03646 |
|---|---|
| Status | in force |
| Institution | N26 BANK SE |
| Registered office in Italy | VIA FILIPPO SASSETTI, 32 |
| Postcode | 20124 |
| Town | MILANO |
| LEI | 52990055L6ZCKJ8IIC31 |
What a missing code does NOT mean
The Banca d'Italia lists the banks, payment institutions and e-money institutions it registers, not the allocation of the ABI code space. Poste Italiane (07601), the Banca d'Italia itself (01000) and the Italian branches of EU payment institutions issue real Italian IBANs outside these registers. So a code listed here names its holder, and a code absent from them proves nothing: the API answers authoritative: false for Italy, and an absence is never a reason to stop a payment.
IBAN structure with this code
An Italian IBAN is IT, two check digits, one CIN letter, the five-digit ABI code, a five-digit CAB (the branch), then the twelve-character account number. The ABI code is what the Banca d'Italia registers can name a holder for; the account part is known only to the bank.
IT92 C036 4601 6000 0000 0123 456
Synthetic example: the account part is a placeholder, this IBAN belongs to nobody. It shows where the code sits inside the IBAN.
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,
"bic": {
"code": "NTSBITM1XXX",
"bic8": "NTSBITM1",
"bank_name": "N26 Bank SE",
"city": null,
"source": "IBANforge curated bank-code map",
"as_of": "2026-09",
"basis": "curated_map",
"authoritative": false,
"lei": "529900JB9XYZ8E87N345"
},
"bank_code_check": {
"value": "03646",
"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,
"institution": {
"name": "N26 BANK SE",
"street": "VIA FILIPPO SASSETTI, 32",
"post_code": "20124",
"town": "MILANO",
"country": "IT",
"lei": "52990055L6ZCKJ8IIC31"
},
"as_of": "2026-09"
},
"sepa": {
"member": true,
"schemes": [
"SCT",
"SDD",
"SCT_INST"
],
"vop_required": true,
"vop_participant": false,
"basis": "country_default"
},
"issuer": {
"type": "digital_bank",
"name": "N26 Bank SE",
"classification": "curated"
},
"risk_indicators": {
"country_risk": "standard",
"sepa_reachable": true,
"vop_coverage": true,
"test_bic": false
}
}Source: Banca d'Italia, Albi ed elenchi di vigilanza (open data, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), edition 2026-09-23; normalised and joined by IBANforge