To overcome these difficulties, the European Committee for Banking Standards (ECBS) developed the IBAN which was later adopted as an international standard under ISO 13616:1997. It identifies both the bank and the branch where the account is held. ??s commitment to ensuring payment efficiency, the Sort Code Checker has been developed to help all customers and is for the use of personal and corporate customers.
Although there is a strong correlation between BIC Codes and sort codes, sort codes are not explicitly encoded into BIC codes.
The top bar contains an alphabetical list of Top 500 clearing houses. As part of these reforms, each bank branch has been given a unique 6-digit sort code, which identifies the Bank, location and branch number (and assigned to one of eleven clearinghouses operated by the Bank of Ghana).