Why up-to-date sort code data is important
The sort code data used by the UK payments industry is updated constantly to reflect bank and other financial institution changes. Although there is a strong correlation between BIC Codes and sort codes, sort codes are not explicitly encoded into BIC codes (although they are encoded into IBANs).
IBAN imposes a flexible but regular format sufficient for account identification and contains validation information to avoid errors of transcription. Database Samples
BinDB offers the Sort Code Database in SQL format by default, however we also offer free restructuring of the data as the client requests.