In some countries the bank codes can be viewed over the internet, but mostly in the local language.
In some cases, the first digit of the sort code identifies the bank itself and in other cases the first 2 digits identify the bank.
All bank offices participating in the CHAPS Euro service must have a BIC , however not every bank office with a BIC necessarily participates in CHAPS Euro.
The suffix is automatically allocated by Voca, and are numbered in sequence starting with 01 for the first subbranch.