BACS - Details of the branch's participation in BACS clearing service
CHAPS Sterling - Details of the branch's participation in CHAPS Sterling clearing service
Banks' SWIFT and SORT CODES
To facilitate the efficient clearing and settlement of inter-bank payment instruments throughout the country, cheques and other debit payment instruments have been standardized to make them amendable to automated processing. The suffix is automatically allocated by Voca, and are numbered in sequence starting with 01 for the first subbranch. Subbranches have the same sorting code as the main bank office, but to uniquely identify them they have a two-digit suffix after the sorting code. Although sort codes in both countries have the same format, they are regulated by different authorities as each country has its own banking system.