BIC / SWIFT parse API

Validates an ISO 9362 BIC/SWIFT format (8 or 11 chars) and parses bank, country, location, branch, plus test-BIC and primary-office flags. Answers 'Is this SWIFT/BIC well-formed?', 'Which bank/country/branch is this?'.

Price$0.02per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/validate/bic

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

bicswiftiso-9362bank-codevalidatebankingswift-codeformatparse

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/validate/bic

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "bic": "BOFAUS3NXXX"
}

Example response

{
  "valid": true,
  "reason": "Valid ISO 9362 BIC for United States, branch XXX.",
  "normalized": "BOFAUS3NXXX",
  "bankCode": "BOFA",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "locationCode": "3N",
  "branchCode": "XXX",
  "isTestBic": false,
  "isPrimaryOffice": true
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "bic"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "bic": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "8- or 11-character BIC / SWIFT code.",
      "examples": [
        "BOFAUS3NXXX"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}