A List Of All The Nigerian Banks SWIFT Codes - Money, Stock Markets

Do you want to know your bank's SWIFT codes? These are different from SORT codes.

Banks' SWIFT codes are used when transferring money between banks, especially for international wire transfers. Banks also use the codes for exchanging other messages between themselves.

The SWIFT code consists of 8 or 11 characters. When 8-digits code is given, it refers to the primary office.

First 4 characters - bank code (only letters)

Next 2 characters - ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (only letters)

Next 2 characters - location code (letters and digits) (passive participant will have "1" in the second character)

Last 3 characters - branch code, optional ('XXX' for primary office) (letters and digits) Read More