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Italian bank code 05034

BANCO BPM SOCIETA' PER AZIONI, MILANO

ABI code05034
Statusin force
InstitutionBANCO BPM SOCIETA' PER AZIONI
Registered office in ItalyPIAZZA FILIPPO MEDA 4
Postcode20121
TownMILANO
LEI815600E4E6DCD2D25E30

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.

IT89 J050 3401 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": "BAPPIT21",
    "bic8": "BAPPIT21",
    "bank_name": "Banco BPM",
    "city": "Milano",
    "source": "IBANforge curated bank-code map",
    "as_of": "2026-09",
    "basis": "curated_map",
    "authoritative": false,
    "lei": null
  },
  "bank_code_check": {
    "value": "05034",
    "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": "BANCO BPM SOCIETA' PER AZIONI",
      "street": "PIAZZA FILIPPO MEDA 4",
      "post_code": "20121",
      "town": "MILANO",
      "country": "IT",
      "lei": "815600E4E6DCD2D25E30"
    },
    "as_of": "2026-09"
  },
  "sepa": {
    "member": true,
    "schemes": [
      "SCT",
      "SDD",
      "SCT_INST"
    ],
    "vop_required": true,
    "vop_participant": false,
    "basis": "country_default"
  },
  "issuer": {
    "type": "bank",
    "name": "Banco BPM",
    "classification": "default"
  },
  "risk_indicators": {
    "country_risk": "standard",
    "sepa_reachable": true,
    "vop_coverage": true,
    "test_bic": false
  }
}
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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