In some countries the bank codes can be viewed over the internet, but mostly in the local language.
The site contains over 500 banks with 26,000 sortcodes.
The simple search facility enables you to check bank sort codes, branch addresses, contact details and BIC codes, as well as identifying which banks and institutions accept faster payments.
The checksum enables the initiator of any transaction to perform a sanity check of any specified bank account number on their own computer prior to actually initiating a request.