ISO 9362:1994

Banking — Banking telecommunication messages — Bank identifier codes

Specifies the elements and structure of a universal bank identifier code (BIC) for use in automated processing in banking and related financial environments. The BIC consists of 8 or 11 contiguous characters (letters and/or digits without special characters such as blanks, separators, punctuation, etc.) and comprises the first three or all four of the following four components: bank code, country code, location code, branch code.