Banks and other financial institutions matched against the SWIFT BIC (ISO 9362) reference data.
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Banks and other financial institutions matched against the SWIFT BIC (ISO 9362) reference data.
BIC is the International Standard ISO 9362:2014. This standard specifies the elements and structure of a universal identifier code, the business identifier code (BIC), for financial and non-financial institutions, for which such an international identifier is required to facilitate automated processing of information for financial services.
This enricher matches risk-linked entities (sanctioned, PEP-linked, etc.) in the database against the global ISO 9362 BIC reference data published by ISO/SWIFT. Matches expand the target entities with their SWIFT BIC and registered/operational addresses.
This dataset contains entities from a larger database that is used to enrich the data in OpenSanctions with additional details and connections. We only include entities from the source where there is a relevant connection to the entities in the main OpenSanctions database (e.g. to a sanctions target or a politician).
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| Publisher: | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) · Global SWIFT is a global member-owned cooperative that provides secure financial messaging services. It is used by more than 11,000 financial institutions and offers comprehensive reference data for the financial industry. | ||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default | ||||
| Information: | www.iso9362.org | ||||
| Tags: | sector.banking | ||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: monthly | ||||
| Last processed: | 2026-07-26 05:05:01 · v. 20260726050501-knl | ||||
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You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: |
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