Data Accuracy

Corrections

When we publish a bank detail that turns out to be wrong, we do not quietly edit it. The correction is recorded here with the BIC it affected, so you can tell whether it touched something you looked up. How we source and check the data in the first place is described on the methodology page; product changes live in the changelog.

218 corrected, none outstanding. Newest first. Entries before September 2026 are reconstructed from our own change log, so where the record does not say when a wrong value first went live, the date given is the day we found it. Where a whole national table was rewritten at once, the entry says how much it covered rather than listing every row.

  1. Corrected

    Burundi's banks were filed under BIC letters, and two foreign-owned banks as private

    the rows were added from GLEIF before an authoritative Burundian code list had been found, and their types were set by default.

    Affected
    three directory rows (BI) · /bank/finbank-burundi, /bank/ecobank-burundi, /bank/diamond-trust-bank-burundi
    We showed
    FinBank, Ecobank Burundi and Diamond Trust Bank Burundi under the codes FIKN, ECOC and DTKE, which no Burundian IBAN carries, and all three as private banks.
    Correct
    FinBank 20006, Ecobank Burundi 20007 and Diamond Trust Bank Burundi 20008, the codes the central bank assigns; Ecobank Burundi and Diamond Trust Bank Burundi as foreign-owned banks, FinBank with no ownership type.
    Settled by
    The Bank of the Republic of Burundi's Regulation 1-2022, Annex 10.1 (bank codes); GLEIF's parent records for Ecobank Burundi and Diamond Trust Bank Burundi. Read 26 October 2026.
    Detected
    26 October 2026
    Corrected
    26 October 2026
  2. Corrected

    Mongolian banks were shown with ownership types no source states

    the types were set when the banks were added, without a source for who owns them.

    Affected
    eleven directory rows and the code table (MN) · /bank/khan-bank, /bank/golomt-bank, /bank/state-bank-of-mongolia, /bank/development-bank-of-mongolia, /bank/xacbank
    We showed
    Nine Mongolian banks, Khan Bank and Golomt Bank among them, as private banks, and State Bank and the Development Bank of Mongolia as state-owned.
    Correct
    No ownership type: GLEIF reports no parent for any of them, the Bank of Mongolia does not publish owners, and no shareholder record we found gives any one holder more than half.
    Settled by
    The Bank of Mongolia's register of payment system participants; GLEIF's parent reporting for each bank; the Law on the Development Bank of Mongolia. Read 26 October 2026.
    Detected
    26 October 2026
    Corrected
    26 October 2026
  3. Corrected

    Banks owned by a foreign group were labelled as branches of a foreign bank

    The type covers both a foreign bank's branch and a subsidiary owned by a foreign group, but the page named only the first. The directory does not record which of the two each bank is, so the label now says what is true of both.

    Affected
    every bank typed as foreign-owned: 147 bank pages in 27 countries, their SWIFT pages and the SWIFT directory (several) · /bank/banque-misr-liban-sal, /bank/halyk-bank-georgia, /bank/raiffeisen-bank-aval, /bank/shinhan-bank-kazakhstan, /swift, and every other foreign-owned bank's bank and SWIFT page
    We showed
    Institution type: Foreign branch, for every bank whose type is foreign-owned, including banks incorporated in their own country such as Banque Misr Liban S.A.L., HSBC Bank A.Ş., Deutsche Bank A.Ş., Halyk Bank Georgia, ProCredit Bank Georgia, Raiffeisen Bank in Ukraine and Shinhan Bank Kazakhstan. The SWIFT directory carried the same label, and the Turkish pages said Yabancı banka şubesi. Those banks are subsidiaries of a foreign group, not branches of a foreign bank.
    Correct
    Institution type: Foreign-owned bank, which is true of a foreign bank's branch and of a locally incorporated subsidiary alike. The badge on the bank page and the IBAN result card, which said Foreign Bank, now say Foreign-Owned Bank to match.
    Settled by
    The legal form in the bank's registered name (S.A.L., A.Ş.) or its GLEIF record, which lists Halyk Bank Georgia, ProCredit Bank Georgia, Raiffeisen Bank Aval and Shinhan Bank Kazakhstan as joint-stock companies in their own country. The ownership behind each type was not wrong and is unchanged.
    Detected
    26 October 2026
    Corrected
    26 October 2026
  4. Corrected

    Bank Audi, BLOM Bank and Byblos Bank were shown as private domestic banks

    the types were set to private by default when the banks were added, without reading who owns them.

    Affected
    three directory rows and the code table (LB) · /bank/bank-audi, /bank/blom-bank, /bank/byblos-bank
    We showed
    Bank Audi, BLOM Bank and Byblos Bank each with the type Private Bank.
    Correct
    No ownership type: the shareholder tables in the Association of Banks in Lebanon's almanac give no nationality more than half of any of the three, and GLEIF names no consolidating parent.
    Settled by
    The Association of Banks in Lebanon's almanac for 2024-2025 (shareholders and their nationality); GLEIF's parent reporting for each bank. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  5. Corrected

    Georgian banks were all shown as private domestic banks

    the types were set to private by default when the banks were added, without reading who owns them.

    Affected
    twelve directory rows and the code table (GE) · /bank/halyk-bank-georgia, /bank/ziraat-bank-georgia, /bank/procredit-bank-georgia, /bank/bank-of-georgia, /bank/tbc-bank
    We showed
    Every Georgian bank except the National Bank as a private bank, including Halyk Bank Georgia, Ziraat Bank Georgia and ProCredit Bank Georgia.
    Correct
    Halyk Bank Georgia, Ziraat Bank Georgia and ProCredit Bank Georgia as foreign banks, from their parents in GLEIF or the bank's own site; seven banks GLEIF reports as owned by natural persons as private; no type where no source names the owner.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's parent relationships and reporting exceptions for each bank; ProCredit Bank Georgia's own site. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  6. Corrected

    The National Bank of Kazakhstan was shown at its Almaty office, and three Kazakh banks under codes no directory gives them

    the codes predate the National Bank's BIC directory, and the address was its representative office in Almaty rather than its head office.

    Affected
    five directory rows (KZ) · /bank/national-bank-of-kazakhstan, /swift/nbrkkzkx, /bank/alatau-city-bank-formerly-jusan-bank, /bank/halyk-bank-of-kazakhstan, /bank/bank-centercredit, /bank/kaspi-bank
    We showed
    The National Bank of Kazakhstan at 67 Aiteke bi Street, Almaty, on a second row under the code 100; Alatau City Bank, Halyk Bank and Bank CenterCredit under 155, 185 and 189; Kaspi Bank with the six-digit postcode 050013.
    Correct
    The National Bank at its central headquarters, 64 Mangilik El Avenue, Z00A9G3 Astana, on one row under 125; Alatau City Bank 998, Halyk Bank 601, Bank CenterCredit 856; Kaspi Bank A15E1Y3.
    Settled by
    The National Bank of Kazakhstan's BIC directory and its contacts page; GLEIF's record for Kaspi Bank (2549008W9QK6DLKQJ765). Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  7. Corrected

    Twelve foreign-owned Ukrainian banks were shown as private domestic banks

    the types were set by hand for the state-owned banks and defaulted to private for the rest, without reading the National Bank's grouping.

    Affected
    twelve directory rows and the code table (UA) · /bank/ukrsibbank-bnp-paribas-group, /bank/raiffeisen-bank-aval, /bank/otp-bank-jsc, /bank/jsc-ing-bank-ukraine, /bank/jsc-credit-agricole-bank, /bank/jsc-piraeus-bank-icb, /bank/jsc-procredit-bank, /bank/jsc-kredobank, /bank/jsc-nexent-bank, /bank/jsc-deutsche-bank-dbu, /bank/jsc-seb-corporate-bank, /bank/pravex-bank-jsc
    We showed
    UKRSIBBANK, Raiffeisen Bank, OTP Bank, ING Bank Ukraine, Credit Agricole Bank, Piraeus Bank ICB, ProCredit Bank, Kredobank, Nexent Bank, Deutsche Bank DBU, SEB Corporate Bank and Pravex Bank as private banks; Citibank, Creditwest Bank and the bridge bank UTE Bank, which have no page, likewise on the result card.
    Correct
    All fifteen as banks of foreign banking groups, as the National Bank of Ukraine groups them for 2026; First Investment Bank, which the grouping does not list, carries no type.
    Settled by
    The National Bank of Ukraine's distribution of banks into groups for 2026 (decision 24-228-rk of 3 April 2026). Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  8. Corrected

    Four Ukrainian banks were shown with an outdated bank code, name or head office

    the Ukrainian table was written from older code lists and never compared with the National Bank of Ukraine's register.

    Affected
    three directory rows and the code table (UA) · /bank/raiffeisen-bank-aval, /swift/avaluauk, /bank/sense-bank, /swift/sensuauk, /bank/privatbank, /swift/pbanua2x, /bank/ukrsibbank-bnp-paribas-group
    We showed
    Raiffeisen Bank as Raiffeisen Bank Aval under MFO 380805, so its IBANs, which carry 300335, named no bank; Sense Bank's directory row under 328209, the code of Pivdennyi Bank; PrivatBank with its former head office in Dnipro and as a private bank; UKRSIBBANK's city as Kharkiv.
    Correct
    Raiffeisen Bank under 300335; Sense Bank under 300346; PrivatBank at Hrushevskoho St. 1D, 01001 Kyiv, state-owned since 2016; UKRSIBBANK in Kyiv.
    Settled by
    The National Bank of Ukraine's register of banks (open data, MFO, EDRPOU, head office). Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  9. Corrected

    Komercijalna Banka in Skopje was shown at a street the bank no longer gives

    the address came from an older copy of the EPC register and was not compared with the bank's own contact page.

    Affected
    one directory row (MK) · /bank/komercijalna-banka-ad-skopje, /swift/kobsmk2x
    We showed
    Orce Nikolov 3, 1000 Skopje, beside the registered office at Vasil Iljoski 3 that the same page quoted from GLEIF.
    Correct
    Vasil Iljoski 3, 1000 Skopje.
    Settled by
    Komercijalna Banka's own contact page ("ул. Васил Иљоски бр. 3 ... S.W.I.F.T.: KOBSMK2X") and GLEIF's record 48510000UPXPWPPR9439. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  10. Corrected

    UBS's London code was shown under UBS Limited, a company closed in 2019

    the name was written when the directory was built and was not compared with Companies House again after UBS Limited closed.

    Affected
    UBSWGB2L (GB) · /bank/ubs-ag-london-branch, /bank/ubs-limited, /swift/ubswgb2l
    We showed
    UBSWGB2L as the code of UBS Limited.
    Correct
    UBS AG London Branch, the UK establishment of UBS AG at 5 Broadgate, London. The page moved to /bank/ubs-ag-london-branch and the old address leads there.
    Settled by
    Companies House, which files UBS LIMITED (02035362) as converted/closed on 5 March 2019 and UBS AG LONDON BRANCH (BR004507) as opened on 12 June 1998 at 5 Broadgate; GLEIF's record for UBS AG (BFM8T61CT2L1QCEMIK50), which lists the code. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  11. Corrected

    Handelsbanken's UK code was shown under the Swedish bank's former London branch

    the name was written before Handelsbanken moved its UK business from the branch into a UK subsidiary, and was not compared with Companies House again.

    Affected
    HANDGB22 (GB) · /bank/handelsbanken-london, /swift/handgb22
    We showed
    HANDGB22 as the code of Svenska Handelsbanken AB London Branch, with handelsbanken.se as its website.
    Correct
    Handelsbanken plc, the UK bank incorporated in 2018, at 25 Basinghall Street, London; its website is handelsbanken.co.uk.
    Settled by
    Companies House, which files HANDELSBANKEN PLC (11305395) as incorporated on 11 April 2018 and the London branch (BR000589) as closed; GLEIF's record for Handelsbanken Plc (254900HILJ9CO56XA292); the bank's UK site. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  12. Corrected

    Halifax was shown as Halifax plc, a company that has not existed on its own since 2007

    the legal name was written from the brand and not compared with the bank's own legal notice.

    Affected
    HLFXGB21 (GB) · /bank/halifax, /swift/hlfxgb21
    We showed
    HLFXGB21 as the code of Halifax plc, at Trinity Road, Halifax HX1 2RG.
    Correct
    Halifax, a division of Bank of Scotland plc, whose registered office is The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ.
    Settled by
    Halifax's own site footer: "Halifax is a division of Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No. SC327000. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ"; GLEIF's record for Bank of Scotland plc (OQ3T05P7YR8P5YJEVI93), which lists the code. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  13. Corrected

    Three UK banks were shown at addresses that belong to another company or that the bank does not give

    the addresses and links were written for the group rather than for the company holding each code, and were not compared with Companies House or the bank's own legal notice.

    Affected
    four directory rows (GB) · /bank/hsbc-bank-plc, /swift/midlgb2145p, /bank/allied-irish-banks-gb, /swift/aibkgb2l, /bank/guavapay-limited, /swift/guavgb22, /bank/hsbc-uk-bank-plc
    We showed
    HSBC Bank plc at 1 Centenary Square, Birmingham, the registered office of HSBC UK Bank plc, with hsbc.co.uk, HSBC UK's site, as its website; AIB Group (UK) p.l.c. at 70 St Mary Axe, London, with aib.ie, the Irish parent's site; Guavapay Limited at 68 Lombard Street; HSBC UK Bank plc with hsbc.com, the group's site.
    Correct
    HSBC Bank plc at 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, with no website shown; AIB Group (UK) p.l.c. at 92 Ann Street, Belfast BT1 3HH, with aibgb.co.uk; Guavapay Limited at Monument Place, 24 Monument Street, its last registered office before liquidation; HSBC UK Bank plc with hsbc.co.uk.
    Settled by
    Companies House (HSBC Bank plc 00014259; Guavapay Limited 10601900 and its filing history); GLEIF's record listing MIDLGB2145P under HSBC Bank plc (MP6I5ZYZBEU3UXPYFY54); the AIB (GB) and HSBC UK sites' own legal notices. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  14. Corrected

    Alinma Bank was shown at the tower it left for its new head office

    the address was written when the directory was built and was not compared with the bank again after its head office moved; GLEIF's record still carries the old tower.

    Affected
    INMASARI (SA) · /bank/alinma-bank, /swift/inmasari
    We showed
    Alinma Bank's head office as Al Anoud Tower, King Fahad Road, P.O. Box 66674, 11586 Riyadh, and, quoting GLEIF, its registered office in the same tower.
    Correct
    9033 King Fahad Road, Al Ulaya, 12214 Riyadh, the national address the bank gives today. GLEIF's record is no longer quoted.
    Settled by
    Alinma Bank's own site footer, which gives 9033 King Fahad Road, Al Ulaya, Unit no. 8, Riyadh 12214 - 2370 with its unified number 7001514442. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  15. Corrected

    Five Saudi banks were shown with a postal code that does not go with the address printed beside it

    the addresses joined the bank's mailing box and its national address into one line, and the two carry different postal codes in Saudi Arabia; GLEIF's records make the same join; AlJazira's code was copied with two digits transposed.

    Affected
    five directory rows, and the registered office quoted on six more bank pages (SA) · /bank/bank-aljazira, /bank/arab-national-bank, /bank/saudi-awwal-bank-sab-formerly-sabb, /bank/al-rajhi-banking-and-investment-corporation, /bank/banque-saudi-fransi, /swift/bjazsaje, /swift/arnbsari, /swift/sabbsari, /swift/rjhisari, /swift/bsfrsari, /bank/saudi-investment-bank-saib, /swift/sibcsari, /bank/bank-albilad, /swift/albisari
    We showed
    Bank AlJazira at postal code 23153; Arab National Bank, Saudi Awwal Bank, Al Rajhi Bank and Banque Saudi Fransi each with their P.O. Box printed beside the postal code of their street address (P.O. Box 56921, 12613; P.O. Box 9084, 13325; P.O. Box 28, 12263; P.O. Box 56006, 12624), and Banque Saudi Fransi on King Saud Street with no building number. Six pages also quoted GLEIF's registered office with the mailing box's postal code beside the street (Al Rajhi Bank, Arab National Bank, Saudi Investment Bank, Bank Albilad), a street by its former name (Banque Saudi Fransi) or another district (Bank AlJazira).
    Correct
    each bank's national address with its own postal code: Bank AlJazira 23513; the four P.O. Boxes, which belong to other postal codes (11564, 11413, 11411, 11554), are no longer printed beside the street address; Banque Saudi Fransi at 7569 King Saud Road, Al Murabba. The six GLEIF records the banks contradict are no longer quoted.
    Settled by
    each bank's own site footer, which prints its mailing box and its national address separately; Banque Saudi Fransi's own forms and its 2021 annual report. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  16. Corrected

    Commercial Bank International was shown at the Deira building that is now one of its branches

    the address was written when the directory was built and was not compared with the bank again after its head office moved.

    Affected
    CLBIAEAD (AE) · /bank/commercial-bank-international-cbi, /swift/clbiaead
    We showed
    Commercial Bank International's head office as Al Riqqa Street, Deira, P.O. Box 4449, Dubai.
    Correct
    CBI Headquarters, Jumeirah Street, Jumeirah 1, P.O. Box 4449, Dubai. Al Rigga Street is a CBI branch.
    Settled by
    CBI's Annual Report 2025, which gives its headquarters on Jumeirah Street and lists Al Rigga Street among its branches; GLEIF's record for the bank (5493004TMWF1VBO4YY91), which gives the same Jumeirah Street building. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  17. Corrected

    GEFA Bank was shown as part of Société Générale after BPCE took it over

    the owner was written from GLEIF's records on 28 June 2026, the day before GLEIF registered BPCE as the consolidating parent, and was not compared with GLEIF again until the ownership check of 24 October.

    Affected
    GGABDE31 (DE) · /bank/gefa-bank-gmbh, /swift/ggabde31
    We showed
    GEFA BANK GmbH as belonging to Société Générale, a banking group based in France.
    Correct
    GEFA BANK GmbH belongs to BPCE, the French banking group, through BPCE Equipment Solutions.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's record for GEFA BANK GmbH (529900O36LIHML9KNF05), which gives BPCE as its direct and ultimate parent since 1 March 2025; GEFA's own site, which calls it a company of the French Groupe BPCE. Read 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    24 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  18. Corrected

    Seven Turkish banks were shown with postal codes their streets no longer carry

    the postal codes came from the banks' own pages, the Banks Association of Türkiye and GLEIF, which still print codes PTT has since changed, and no check asked PTT; the letters came from a capitalisation step that applied English rules to Turkish capitals.

    Affected
    seven directory rows, and the registered office quoted on thirty-nine bank pages (TR) · /bank/emlak-katilim, /bank/alternatif-bank, /bank/burgan-bank, /bank/icbc-turkey, /bank/turkland-bank, /bank/freedom-bank, /bank/jpmorgan-chase, /bank/tskb, /bank/turkiye-finans, /bank/vakif-katilim, /bank/hedef-bank, /bank/turkish-commercial-bank, /bank/central-bank-of-the-republic-of-turkiye
    We showed
    Emlak Katılım at 34746; Alternatif Bank, Burgan Bank and ICBC Turkey in Maslak at 34485 and 34398; Turkland Bank at 34360; Freedom Bank at 34374; and JPMorgan's office in the Kanyon building as in Beşiktaş. Ten bank pages also quoted GLEIF's registered office with a postal code PTT does not give the street, or a neighbourhood PTT no longer lists, and nineteen printed the quoted office with broken Turkish letters ("Şi̇şli̇").
    Correct
    the codes PTT gives those streets today: Barbaros Mahallesi, Ataşehir 34634; Maslak and Ayazağa 34475; 19 Mayıs Mahallesi, Şişli 34363; Esentepe 34394; and the Kanyon building in Şişli. The ten offices PTT contradicts are no longer quoted, and the others are printed in Turkish letters or as GLEIF writes them.
    Settled by
    PTT's postal code directory, read street by street on 25 October 2026; the Kanyon building's own contact page; A&T Bank's branch page.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  19. Corrected

    Two Turkish banks were shown at head offices they had left, and four more details were wrong

    the addresses and owner were written when the directory was built and never compared with an authority again; the head offices moved to the Istanbul Finance Center after that.

    Affected
    seven directory rows (TR) · /bank/ziraat-bank, /bank/halkbank, /bank/teb, /bank/albaraka-turk, /bank/anadolubank, /bank/freedom-bank, /bank/emlak-katilim, /bank/turkland-bank
    We showed
    Ziraat Bankası and Halkbank at their former Ankara head offices; TEB, Albaraka Türk and Anadolubank in the wrong Ümraniye neighbourhood (Saray instead of İnkılap and Yamanevler); Freedom Bank's building as Polat Center; Emlak Katılım's legal name without its leading Türkiye; and Turkland Bank as owned by Bankmed alone.
    Correct
    Ziraat and Halkbank at the Istanbul Finance Center (Finanskent Mah. Finans Cad. No 44A and No 42/1, Ümraniye); TEB and Albaraka in İnkılap Mahallesi and Anadolubank in Yamanevler Mahallesi; Freedom Bank at POL Center; Türkiye Emlak Katılım Bankası A.Ş.; and no single owner for Turkland Bank, whose main shareholders are Arab Bank PLC and Bankmed SAL.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's records for each bank (legal addresses, Emlak Katılım's legal name, and no consolidating parent for Turkland); the Banks Association of Türkiye's Bankalarımız 2024 (head offices and main shareholders); the banks' own contact pages; TCMB's 2026 list of payment system participants. All read 24 and 25 October 2026.
    Detected
    25 October 2026
    Corrected
    25 October 2026
  20. Corrected

    Banco di Sardegna had a second page under a SWIFT code that was never issued

    the code was entered by hand when the directory was first built and no authority was asked about it; the check that asks every published BIC was recorded on its first run and the code was read only now.

    Affected
    BSROITRR (IT) · /bank/banco-di-sardegna, /swift/sardit31
    We showed
    a second page for Banco di Sardegna at /bank/banco-di-sardegna-spa and /swift/bsroitrr, giving BSROITRR as the bank's SWIFT code.
    Correct
    one page, /bank/banco-di-sardegna, under SARDIT31, the code the EPC registers list Banco di Sardegna under in every scheme. The old addresses now lead there.
    Settled by
    the EPC participant registers, which list Banco di Sardegna as SARDIT31XXX (24 October 2026); SWIFT's BIC directory, which holds no code beginning BSRO (24 October 2026); Wise's SWIFT code directory, which has no BSROITRRXXX.
    Detected
    24 October 2026
    Corrected
    24 October 2026
  21. Corrected

    A page for Nordnet's Norwegian branch gave a SWIFT code that was never issued

    the code was entered by hand and never checked against an authority; it was read for the first time with the 165 codes the existence check had recorded and not yet read.

    Affected
    NNDBNOKK (NO) · /bank/nordnet, /swift/nndbnokk
    We showed
    a page for Nordnet Bank AB, Norwegian filial at /bank/nordnet and /swift/nndbnokk, giving NNDBNOKK as its SWIFT code.
    Correct
    no page: Nordnet Bank AB holds the Swedish codes NNSESE22 and NNSESES1, the Norwegian IBAN-BIC table lists no Nordnet code, and no other row in the directory is Nordnet, so both addresses now answer not found.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's record for Nordnet Bank AB, LEI 549300JSC82O1L4XV837, listing NNSESE22XXX and NNSESES1XXX; SWIFT's BIC directory, with no code beginning NNDB; the Bits Norwegian IBAN-BIC table; Wise's SWIFT code directory, with no NNDBNOKKXXX. All read 24 October 2026.
    Detected
    24 October 2026
    Corrected
    24 October 2026
  22. Corrected

    Sparebanken Norge was shown under Sparebanken Sør's old SWIFT code after the code was withdrawn

    Bits moved the former Sparebanken Sør codes to SPAVNOBB in its table of 12 October 2026 and SWIFT withdrew SPSONO22; our daily check noticed the table on 16 October, and the finding was acted on a week later.

    Affected
    SPSONO22 (NO) · /bank/sparebanken-norge, /swift/spavnobb, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    a page for Sparebanken Norge at /bank/sparebanken-norge-formerly-sparebanken-sor and /swift/spsono22 under SPSONO22, the code of the former Sparebanken Sør, and an IBAN with bank code 3000 or one of 44 other former Sparebanken Sør codes answered with SPSONO22 on the result card.
    Correct
    Sparebanken Norge under SPAVNOBB, the code of the surviving legal entity, for all 45 codes. The old page and /swift/spsono22 now lead to /bank/sparebanken-norge, which lists SPSONO22 as an older code.
    Settled by
    the Bits Norwegian IBAN-BIC table of 12 October 2026; SWIFT's BIC directory, which lists no code under SPSONO and SPAVNOBBXXX for Sparebanken Norge in Bergen (23 October 2026); GLEIF's record for Sparebanken Norge, LEI 213800M7T3CYVZ3ZRT12, which lists only SPAVNOBBXXX.
    Detected
    16 October 2026
    Corrected
    23 October 2026
  23. Corrected

    Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France carried the network's code, and its Monaco page was another Caisse's office

    the network's eight-character code was taken as Île-de-France's, and the Monaco row was copied from the French one before the Monaco office's owner was read.

    Affected
    CEPAFRPP, two directory rows (FR, MC) · /swift/cepafrpp, /bank/caisse-depargne-ile-de-france, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France under CEPAFRPP, the code of the Caisse d'Epargne network as a whole, on its French and Monaco pages, with the Monaco page giving Île-de-France's name, code 17515 and website for an office at 27 boulevard des Moulins.
    Correct
    Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France under its own code, CEPAFRPP751. The Monaco office belongs to Caisse d'Epargne Côte d'Azur, under its Monaco code CEPAMCM1 and bank code 18315, with its own page at /bank/caisse-depargne-cote-dazur. /swift/cepafrpp no longer names a single Caisse.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's records for Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France (CEPAFRPP751) and Caisse d'Epargne Côte d'Azur (CEPAFRPP831 and CEPAMCM1); the EPC registers, which list both under their own codes in all five schemes; REGAFI for codes 17515 and 18315; the AMAF member list for the Monaco office.
    Detected
    12 October 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  24. Corrected

    Sixteen banks were shown under an English name nobody uses

    the English names were written as translations rather than read from the institutions, which do not use them.

    Affected
    four bank pages (GENODEF1M03, CEKOCZPP, RNCBROBU, TTANTRIS), two Czech directory rows and twelve result-card names (CZ, DE, LV, RO, SK, TR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Raiffeisenbank Munich South eG, Czechoslovak Commercial Bank AS (CSOB), Romanian Commercial Bank SA (BCR) and Turkish Commercial Bank on their pages; on the result card, Czech savings cooperatives and building savings banks as “Savings Cooperative” and “Building Savings Bank”, Czech Export Bank, two Slovak building savings banks the same way, and Bank of Latvia.
    Correct
    the names the banks use: Raiffeisenbank München-Süd eG, Československá obchodní banka (ČSOB), Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), Türk Ticaret Bankası, Latvijas Banka, and each Czech and Slovak institution under its registered name.
    Settled by
    each bank's own site, GLEIF's legal names, and the Czech National Bank's register for the Czech names.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  25. Corrected

    Bank Mellat's code, SwissLife Banque Privée's name and Openbank's second page

    Bank Mellat's own page and the Turkish banking association's list still print the code it used before 2018; the bank name was copied from an older EPC entry; and Santander Consumer Finance became Open Bank S.A. while both of its codes stayed in our directory.

    Affected
    BKMTTRIS, SWILFRPP and SCFBESMM (ES, FR, TR) · /swift/bkmttris, /bank/swisslife-banque, /bank/openbank-spain, /swift/scfbesmm
    We showed
    Bank Mellat in Turkey under BKMTTRIS; SwissLife Banque Privée as “Swiss Life Banque”; Open Bank S.A. on two pages, under OPENESMM and under SCFBESMM.
    Correct
    Bank Mellat under BKMTTRI1, the only code SWIFT holds for it in Turkey since November 2018; SwissLife Banque Privée, as REGAFI and GLEIF name it; one page for Openbank, under OPENESMM, which is the code the EPC registers list, with SCFBESMM, the code it kept from Santander Consumer Finance, named on it.
    Settled by
    SWIFT's BIC directory; REGAFI and GLEIF; GLEIF's record for Open Bank S.A. (formerly Santander Consumer Finance SA) and the EPC registers.
    Detected
    22 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  26. Corrected

    Twelve merged or closed banks still showed an official website, and three links pointed at the wrong site

    a website was kept after the bank behind it stopped, and the three live links had moved while the stored address stayed.

    Affected
    websites on twelve merged or closed rows; Northern Bank (DABAGB2B), Ivy Pay (IVPYFIH2) and Dundalk Credit Union (DUCIIE21) (CH, DK, EE, FR, GB, FI, IE, LT, LU, NL, NO, SE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    an “Official website” for Credit Suisse (landing on ubs.com), Sbanken, Spar Nord, RegioBank, Orange Bank, Intergiro, Rakuten Europe Bank, AS TBB pank, LuxPay, Ulster Bank Ireland, UBS Amsterdam and Mega Bank Amsterdam; danskebank.com, the Danske group's global site, for Northern Bank; getivy.io for Ivy Pay; dundalkcu.ie for Dundalk Credit Union.
    Correct
    no website on a merged or closed bank, whose page already says what became of it and links the sources. Northern Bank links danskebank.co.uk, which names it; Ivy Pay links augustus.com, which names Ivy Pay Oy with its business ID; Dundalk Credit Union, which now trades as North East Credit Union under the same registration number, links northeastcu.ie.
    Settled by
    each site as loaded on 13 October 2026; GLEIF for Ivy Pay Oy's business ID 3292703-8 and Dundalk Credit Union's registration number 108CU; Wikidata's item for Northern Bank's LEI.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  27. Corrected

    Twenty-eight bank pages told search engines they were another company

    entries were matched by name, and a group's or parent's entry carries the same name as its banks.

    Affected
    the sameAs link in the structured data of 28 bank and SWIFT pages (CH, DE, ES, GB, IT, KW, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PL, SE, TR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    a Wikidata link to another company's entry: Commerzbank's Cologne row to Deutsche Bank; Deutsche Bank's Turkish, Spanish and Italian banks and Deutsche Bank Europe to Deutsche Bank AG; HSBC's Turkish bank and HSBC UK to HSBC Holdings; Barclays Bank Ireland and Barclays Bank UK to Barclays; Goldman Sachs's two banks, Revolut Bank's codes and ING Bank's branches to their groups; Swedbank's Baltic banks to Swedbank AB; PKO Bank Hipoteczny to PKO Bank Polski; Sparebanken Norge to SpareBank 1 Sør-Norge; Northern Bank to the Danske group; Burgan Bank of Kuwait to its Turkish subsidiary.
    Correct
    each page links the Wikidata entry that carries its own company's LEI, or no entry where that company has none. Codes of one company under different prefixes, such as Dresdner's codes now held by Commerzbank, keep their shared entry.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's record for each code, matched to the Wikidata entry carrying the same LEI.
    Detected
    12 October 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  28. Corrected

    Eleven banks were shown under a name they had dropped

    each company changed its name or legal form after the row was written, and the Swiss clearing register that feeds the result card still prints the old names. A rename leaves the code and the BIC unchanged, so nothing that checks codes saw it; GLEIF's own record of the previous name is what settles each one.

    Affected
    N26 (NTSBDEB1), HypoVereinsbank (HYVEDEMM), Arab Bank Europe (ARABGB2L, ARABFRPP), Posojilnica (VSGKAT2K), Bonum Bank (POPFFI22), Shine (SNNNFR22), and four Swiss banks on the result card (AT, CH, DE, ES, FI, FR, GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    N26 Bank GmbH, UniCredit Bank AG, Europe Arab Bank PLC and SA, Posojilnica Bank eGen, Bonum Bank Ltd. and SHINE on the bank and SWIFT pages; SEBA Bank AG, BERGOS BERENBERG AG, AP ANLAGE & PRIVATBANK AG and BANKMED SUISSE SA on the result card for Swiss IBANs.
    Correct
    N26 Bank SE, UniCredit Bank GmbH, Arab Bank Europe PLC and SA, Posojilnica eGen, Bonum Pankki Oyj (Bonum Bank Plc), SHINE FRANCE trading as Shine; AMINA Bank, Bergos AG, Banque Richelieu (Schweiz) AG and Banque Des Monts Blancs SA. The old names stay on the pages as former names where GLEIF records them. N26's Spanish branch also moved to its own code, NTSBESM1: it had carried the Berlin head office's NTSBDEB1, so /swift/ntsbdeb1 showed the branch in Madrid.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's records for each code, which keep the dropped name as the previous legal name; the Finnish Trade Register for Bonum Bank Plc; REGAFI for SHINE FRANCE; the SIX bank master of 13 October 2026 for the Swiss names still printed there.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  29. Corrected

    Berlin Hyp was shown as a separate bank after it became part of LBBW

    the business passed to LBBW while the code SOLADESTHYP stayed in use, so the code still resolved and nothing flagged the change. Our 21 September correction about Verification of Payee also called Berlin Hyp a separate bank; that sentence now says what changed.

    Affected
    SOLADESTHYP (DE) · /bank/berlin-hyp-ag, /swift/soladesthyp
    We showed
    Berlin Hyp AG, presented as a private bank of its own.
    Correct
    Berlin Hyp, a dependent institution of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg since 1 August 2025, under LBBW's bank code 600 501 01. Berlin Hyp AG is kept as a former name.
    Settled by
    Berlin Hyp's own imprint, read 13 October 2026 (“Berlin Hyp, Unselbstständige Anstalt der Landesbank Baden-Württemberg”, BIC SOLADEST600 / SOLADESTHYP), and GLEIF, where the former Berlin Hyp AG holds no BIC.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  30. Corrected

    Sixteen bank pages showed an address that was not the bank's own, and seven towns were misspelt

    an import in June copied addresses between participants whose BICs share their first eight characters, branch rows were filled from their head office, and the EPC register's spelling of a town was taken as written.

    Affected
    Iccrea, Cassa Centrale Banca, Cecabank, Entris Banking, Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France, Ulster Bank Ireland, Revolut Ltd, three German branch rows, six Monaco rows; plus seven misspelt towns (CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, MC) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Iccrea in Altofonte, Cassa Centrale Banca in Pordenone, Cecabank in Ontinyent, Entris in Uster and Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France in Bordeaux, all towns of other participants; Ulster Bank Ireland in Belfast; Revolut Ltd at 7 Westferry Circus; Deutsche Bank's Berlin and Leipzig rows and UniCredit's Hamburg row at their head office's street; six Monaco offices of French banks with a French city; and Neunkrichen, Talinn, Miano, St. Heller, Birkrikara, Stommen and Drogana.
    Correct
    Each registered address as GLEIF, the bank itself or SWIFT gives it: Rome, Trento, Madrid, Gümligen, 19 rue du Louvre in Paris, Sir John Rogerson's Quay in Dublin, 30 South Colonnade in London. The branch rows keep their own city and no longer borrow a street, the Monaco rows say Monaco, and the towns are spelt Neunkirchen, Tallinn, Milano, St Helier, Birkirkara, Strømmen and Dogana. A Deutsche Bank row that gave Munich as the home of DEUTDEDB700, which SWIFT files in Bad Tölz, and a second Commerzbank Düsseldorf row were folded into the banks' own pages.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's legal addresses for each code; Ulster Bank Ireland's own site; SWIFT's BIC directory for Revolut Ltd and DEUTDEDB700; the Bundesbank file for the German branch cities; the AMAF member list for the Monaco offices.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  31. Corrected

    Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management's Swiss bank had no page of its own

    both rows were given the same address because their names are the same.

    Affected
    CBPXLULL and REYLCHGG (CH, LU) · /bank/intesa-sanpaolo-wealth-management-sa
    We showed
    one page for two companies, Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management S.A. in Luxembourg and Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management SA in Geneva, so whichever row the page showed hid the other's BIC and address.
    Correct
    the Luxembourg bank keeps the address it had; the Geneva bank, formerly Reyl & Cie, has its own at /bank/intesa-sanpaolo-wealth-management-sa-reyl.
    Settled by
    the EPC registers, which list the two as separate participants with their own BICs and addresses.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  32. Corrected

    Lithuanian Revolut IBANs named an e-money company instead of Revolut Bank

    the Lithuanian table was written by hand before the central bank's code list was read, and it kept the e-money company that once held the code. Lietuvos bankas serves that list only to a browser, so no script of ours had ever compared the two.

    Affected
    REVOLT21 (LT) · the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Revolut Payments UAB, described as an e-money institution and with no BIC, as the bank behind every Lithuanian IBAN carrying code 32500, which is the code most Revolut accounts in Lithuania carry.
    Correct
    Revolut Bank UAB, BIC REVOLT21. Code 70701, which Revolut Bank also holds under RVUALT2V, now resolves too.
    Settled by
    Lietuvos bankas' list of IBAN and financial institution codes, in its files of 4 March and 8 July 2026, which gives 32500 to Revolut Bank, UAB (company code 304580906) under REVOLT21, 70700 under RETBLT21 and 70701 under RVUALT2V.
    Detected
    13 October 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  33. Corrected

    Four Lebanese banks were filed under the wrong bank code and a BIC they do not hold

    the Lebanese table was written without a source: every code and every BIC in it was wrong. A Lebanese IBAN carries the list number Banque du Liban assigned the bank, not anything derived from its BIC.

    Affected
    Banque du Liban, Bank Audi, BLOM Bank and Byblos Bank (LB) · /swift/bdlblbbe, /swift/audblbbe, /swift/blomlbbe, /swift/bybalbbe, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Banque du Liban under code 0001 and BDLBLBBE, Bank Audi under 0038 and AUDBLBBE, BLOM Bank under 0058 and BLOMLBBE, and Byblos Bank under 0013 and BYBALBBE. A Fenicia Bank IBAN, which carries 0058, came back as BLOM Bank, and one carrying 0001, Fransabank's number, as the central bank.
    Correct
    Banque du Liban 0999 and BDLCLBBX, Bank Audi 0056 and AUDBLBBX, BLOM Bank 0014 and BLOMLBBX, Byblos Bank 0039 and BYBALBBX. Codes 0001, 0013, 0038 and 0058 no longer name a bank until a source does.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's records for all four codes; Banque du Liban's own IBAN guide (“The Bank Identifier Code of BDL in IBAN is 0999”); and the Association of Banks in Lebanon's 2024-25 almanac, which numbers Bank Audi 56, BLOM Bank 14, Fenicia Bank 58 and Fransabank 1. Real IBANs of Bank Audi, BLOM and Byblos carry 0056, 0014 and 0039.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  34. Corrected

    Eight banks and central banks were published under a BIC no authority gives them

    the codes were typed into hand-written tables without a source, and nothing compared them with GLEIF or SWIFT until the evidence pass of 26 September. Most of them exist nowhere; BNBGBGSD survives only in an older Bulgarian National Bank document.

    Affected
    BNBGBGSD, NBONROBU, CASPKZKX, SABRSARI, BKPTTRIS, NBUKUAUX, UKRSUA2X and UNBNUA2K (BG, KZ, RO, SA, TR, UA) · /swift/[bic], /bank/[slug], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    the Bulgarian National Bank under BNBGBGSD, the National Bank of Romania under NBONROBU and code NBON, Kaspi Bank under CASPKZKX, the Saudi Central Bank under SABRSARI, BankPozitif under BKPTTRIS, the National Bank of Ukraine under NBUKUAUX, UKRSIBBANK under UKRSUA2X and Universal Bank under UNBNUA2K.
    Correct
    BNBGBGSF, NBORROBU with code NBOR, CASPKZKA, SAMASARI, BPTRTRIS, NBUAUAUX, KHABUA2K and UNJSUAUK. Each old address now leads to the bank's page, which names the code it replaces.
    Settled by
    GLEIF's records for seven of the eight, SWIFT's BIC directory for the National Bank of Romania, and each bank's own pages where they print the code: the BNB tariff, Kaspi's requisites, the NBU's payment details, UKRSIBBANK's contracts and Universal Bank's requisites.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  35. Corrected

    TBI Bank and FinecoBank each had a second page under a code that is not theirs

    both came from hand-written tables. FNNB is QNB Finansbank's prefix, so FNNBIT2F crossed two banks' names; TTBBBGSF exists nowhere.

    Affected
    TTBBBGSF and FNNBIT2F, two directory rows (BG, IT) · /swift/ttbbbgsf, /swift/fnnbit2f, /bank/tbi-bank-bulgaria, /bank/finecobank
    We showed
    a page for TBI Bank under TTBBBGSF and one for FinecoBank under FNNBIT2F, beside each bank's real page; Bulgarian IBANs carrying TTBB and Italian IBANs on ABI 03015 named those codes.
    Correct
    TBI Bank is TBIBBGSF and a Bulgarian IBAN carries TBIB; FinecoBank's SEPA code is FEBIITM1. The two extra rows are gone and their addresses lead to the real pages.
    Settled by
    GLEIF and the EPC registers for TBIBBGSF, with TBI Bank's own investor page; the EPC registers for FEBIITM1XXX, with Fineco's own help page.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  36. Corrected

    Four codes that no longer route were shown as working

    the tables recorded who once held each code and nobody re-read the registers that withdraw them. TCMB took 0150 out of its payment systems on 18 September 2026, Latvijas Banka dropped NDEA between 2021 and 2023, and Betaalvereniging removed UBSW in March 2019.

    Affected
    LV NDEA, NL UBSW, TR 00410 and TR 00150 (LV, NL, TR) · the IBAN result card, /bank/luminor-bank-latvia, /bank/ubs-amsterdam, /bank/credit-agricole-cib
    We showed
    Luminor's legacy Nordea identifier NDEA, UBS's Amsterdam branch, a “Crédit Agricole CIB” branch on Turkish code 00410 and Golden Global Yatırım Bankası on 00150, each as an active bank on the result card.
    Correct
    NDEA and 00150 are marked as codes that no longer route, while the institutions behind them carry on: Luminor under RIKO, and Golden Global with its licence. UBS's Amsterdam branch is closed. Code 00410 no longer names anything: no register holds it, and Crédit Agricole's Turkish bank became Standard Chartered Yatırım Bankası Türk in 2012.
    Settled by
    TCMB's 2026 participant list and its footnote of 18 September 2026; Latvijas Banka's BIC-by-IBAN lists of 2021 and 2023 to 2026; Betaalvereniging's notice of 25 March 2019; TBB's 2024 bank list; and Standard Chartered Yatırım Bankası Türk's 2014 financial statements.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  37. Corrected

    Two Spanish banks had a second page under a code SWIFT never issued

    both rows came from a hand-written table of Spanish codes, added in June 2026 and labelled as EPC records, but neither code is in any EPC register. GLEIF's silence alone was not enough to call them invented, so they waited for a second source from 28 September, when our weekly check first saw that each bank already held a code an authority places.

    Affected
    BCOEESM1 and BCSOESMM, two directory rows (ES) · /swift/bcoeesm1, /swift/bcsoesmm
    We showed
    Banco Cooperativo Español under BCOEESM1 and Banco de Crédito Social Cooperativo under BCSOESMM, each on a SWIFT page of its own beside the bank's real one.
    Correct
    Neither code exists. Banco Cooperativo Español's code is BCOEESMM and Banco de Crédito Social Cooperativo's, Cajamar's, is BCCAESMM; both banks already had a page under those. The two extra rows are gone, and each old address now leads to the bank's real page, which names the code it replaces.
    Settled by
    SWIFT's BIC directory, which returns nothing for BCOEESM1, no code at all beginning BCSOES, and BCOEESMMXXX for Banco Cooperativo Español in Madrid; the EPC registers of 13 October 2026, which publish BCOEESMMXXX and BCCAESMMXXX in all five schemes; and Wise's directory, which knows neither old code.
    Detected
    28 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  38. Corrected

    A Polish cooperative bank in bankruptcy since 2019 was shown as an operating bank

    the Polish table is generated from the National Bank of Poland's EWIB register, which kept code 940 under the bank's plain name until October 2026 and then added “w upadłości”. Our generator copied each name and marked every code active, so the register's own mark had nowhere to go. It now reads the register's bankruptcy and liquidation marks as closed.

    Affected
    bank code 940, Bank Spółdzielczy w Grębowie (PL) · the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Bank Spółdzielczy w Grębowie as the bank behind any IBAN carrying code 940, with nothing to say it had failed.
    Correct
    The result card names it Bank Spółdzielczy w Grębowie w upadłości, in bankruptcy, and marks it closed. The Polish Financial Supervision Authority suspended the bank from 12 July 2019 and applied to the court for its bankruptcy.
    Settled by
    the NBP EWIB register of 13 October 2026, which names routing number 94070000 Bank Spółdzielczy w Grębowie w upadłości, and the supervisor's decision of 12 July 2019 as bank.pl quoted it that day.
    Detected
    9 October 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  39. Corrected

    Via Payments renamed itself Vialet, and its pages kept the old name

    the row came from the EPC registers, which still list the company under its old name, so nothing of ours disagreed. SWIFT changed its record on 14 September 2026 and GLEIF on 7 October; our daily GLEIF check reported the move on 11 October.

    Affected
    VIPULT22 (LT) · /bank/via-payments-uab, /swift/vipult22
    We showed
    Via Payments UAB.
    Correct
    UAB Vialet, with Via Payments UAB kept as its former name. The address is unchanged.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which gives LEI 4851008DLVQBVTMX1Y86 the legal name UAB “Vialet” and keeps Via Payments UAB as its previous one, and SWIFT's BIC directory, which files VIPULT22XXX under UAB VIALET at Konstitucijos pr. 7, Vilnius.
    Detected
    11 October 2026
    Corrected
    13 October 2026
  40. Corrected

    Five payment institutions were shown as active after they merged or lost their licence

    each change happened after the institution was added from the EPC register, and the national registers that record licences and mergers were not read for these countries. All five dropped out of the EPC registers between June and October 2026, which is how they surfaced.

    Affected
    SWCUIE21, WUSTSKBA, UHISEE21, UANOLT22, UAPULT22 (EE, IE, LT, SK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Swilly Mulroy Credit Union, Wüstenrot stavebná sporiteľňa, Ühisarveldused, AlphaPay and Paytend Europe as active institutions taking part in SEPA schemes, on their bank and SWIFT pages and on the IBAN result card.
    Correct
    Swilly Mulroy Credit Union transferred its business to Letterkenny Credit Union on 8 April 2026, and Wüstenrot stavebná sporiteľňa merged into Bausparkasse Wüstenrot AG on 1 October 2026; both pages now say merged and link the successor. The Bank of Lithuania revoked Paytend Europe's licence from 3 March 2026 and AlphaPay's in July 2026, and Estonia's supervisor revoked Ühisarveldused' licence with effect from May 2026; those three pages now say closed.
    Settled by
    the Bank of Lithuania's two revocation notices, Finantsinspektsioon's register and its notice of 19 May 2026, the National Bank of Slovakia's register, Bausparkasse Wüstenrot's notice to depositors, and Letterkenny Credit Union's notice to Swilly Mulroy members
    Detected
    12 October 2026
    Corrected
    12 October 2026
  41. Corrected

    Eight more institutions showed SEPA scheme participation the registers did not support

    the register lists one code per participant, and a company can hold several. Our refresh matched codes one to one, so a company registered under a sibling code looked absent, and a company that had left looked unknown rather than gone.

    Affected
    15 scheme values: CBPSIT31, TPEAITMM, UFPOLT21, EMONMTM2 and SPSKNO21 lost every scheme; HAUKDEFF gained SDD Core, APAHMTMT SEPA Instant and SCFBESMM SDD Core (DE, ES, IT, LT, MT, NO) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Scalapay, Terra Payment Services, Contis, Em@ney and Spareskillingsbanken as taking part in SEPA schemes the European Payments Council no longer lists them in under any code; and ABN AMRO's Frankfurt branch (HAUKDEFF), Alpha FX Europe (APAHMTMT) and Open Bank (SCFBESMM) as not taking part in a scheme their company is registered for under another of its own codes.
    Correct
    the five licensed institutions are shown as not listed. The other three take the participation of the code the register lists for the same legal entity: ABNANL2A, APAHMTMA and OPENESMM.
    Settled by
    the EPC registers of 12 October 2026; the Banca d'Italia, Bank of Lithuania, MFSA and Finanstilsynet registers for the five licensed institutions; the Bundesbank file and SWIFT's BIC directory for the codes of one company
    Detected
    12 October 2026
    Corrected
    12 October 2026
  42. Corrected

    Sparkasse Pottenstein was shown as an independent bank after it merged into Sparkasse Baden

    the merger took effect after our Austrian table was last generated from the national directory. Our daily checks noticed it twice, on 1 October when GLEIF renamed the LEI holder to the savings bank's foundation and on 9 October when the directory moved the code to Sparkasse Baden; neither finding had been acted on until now.

    Affected
    SPPOAT21 (AT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Sparkasse Pottenstein N.Ö. as an active bank at /bank/sparkasse-pottenstein-noe and /swift/sppoat21, and an IBAN with the bank code 20245 answered as Sparkasse Pottenstein on the result card.
    Correct
    Sparkasse Pottenstein N.Ö. merged into Sparkasse Baden at the end of September 2026. The bank code 20245 and the SWIFT code SPPOAT21 stayed in use and now belong to Sparkasse Baden, so the checker names Sparkasse Baden for such an IBAN and the page says where the bank went.
    Settled by
    the merger notice on the Austrian business register platform EVI (published 15 July 2026), Sparkasse Pottenstein's own merger page, and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's SEPA directory read on 12 October 2026
    Detected
    1 October 2026
    Corrected
    12 October 2026
  43. Corrected

    Three payment institutions were published under codes the EPC register has replaced

    the three rows came from the June 2026 EPC register, which listed these participants under those codes. By October the register listed the same participants, with the same addresses and readiness dates, under the new codes, and the old ones are registered nowhere.

    Affected
    NOHLFIH2 to NOLFFIH2 (Northmill Bank), ALYAGB22 to ALYAGB2L (Finsei, formerly Altpay), OPAHGB22 to OPAHGB32 (Opay Holding) (GB, SE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Northmill Bank under NOHLFIH2, Finsei under ALYAGB22 and Opay Holding under OPAHGB22, at /swift/nohlfih2, /swift/alyagb22 and /swift/opahgb22 and on their bank pages.
    Correct
    the codes each institution is registered under: NOLFFIH2, ALYAGB2L and OPAHGB32. The old addresses redirect to the new pages.
    Settled by
    the EPC SCT register read on 12 October 2026; GLEIF, which registers each new code to its institution and has no record of the old ones; and Wise's BIC directory, which has no entry for the old codes
    Detected
    12 October 2026
    Corrected
    12 October 2026
  44. Corrected

    SEPA scheme participation was out of date for twenty-one institutions

    the scheme flags were last read from the registers in June and July 2026 and nothing read them again, so joins and departures since then did not reach the pages. Two were our own reading error: the register prints dates ahead of time, and our import took TSB's announced leaving date in 2027, and State Street's old leaving date followed by a new readiness date, as departures already made. For Crédit Agricole S.A., the register lists the head-office code as only sending name checks; the codes that answer them belong to its regional banks, and an earlier import that matched by the first eight characters of the BIC had given the head office their flag.

    Affected
    25 scheme values at 21 institutions: NASBBGSF, TEPJBGSF, PMBPCZPP, SPDKFRP2, SBOSDEMX, CPEMGRA2, LECIIE21, NBANLI22, DIUALT22, SATYLUL1, SSOPPLP2, BNFIPTPL, EXCHESMM, PAGOES22, TSBSGB2A, CBVILT2X, UNLALV2X, VBANDEMM, SOEPIT21, BCVSCH2L, AGRIFRPP (BG, CH, CZ, DE, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, PL, PT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Fifteen institutions as not taking part in a scheme the European Payments Council lists them in. Thirteen of them joined after we last read the register in June, for example PPF banka and Satispay Europe for SEPA Instant; two had been listed all along, TSB for SDD Core and State Street Bank International for SEPA Instant. Seven as taking part in a scheme the register no longer lists them in: Società Servizi di Pagamento, which left SCT, both direct debit schemes and Verification of Payee at the end of September 2026; SEB in Lithuania and Latvia for SDD Core; V-Bank, Neue Bank and Banque Cantonale du Valais for SDD B2B; and Crédit Agricole S.A. for Verification of Payee.
    Correct
    what the EPC registers of participants list on 12 October 2026, on the bank and SWIFT pages and the IBAN result card.
    Settled by
    the EPC registers of participants for SCT, SCT Inst, SDD Core, SDD B2B and Verification of Payee, read on 12 October 2026 and compared with the copies read in June and July 2026
    Detected
    12 October 2026
    Corrected
    12 October 2026

    113 further values were missing and are now filled from the same registers, among them the full scheme lists of Banco BPM, Banca Mediolanum, Cajamar, ABANCA and four Austrian Raiffeisen regional banks; those are additions and are listed in the changelog. Fifty-four institutions have a joining or leaving date still ahead, most of them SEPA Instant in countries outside the euro area by early 2027; their flags change when the dates come.

  45. Corrected

    Eleven UK banks were published under the wrong SWIFT code, eight of them under a bank code no IBAN carries

    the UK table was written by hand, and a code nobody issued has no bank to contradict it. In the UK the IBAN bank code is the first four letters of the BIC, so each invented BIC came with a matching invented bank code, and the two agreed with each other in every internal check. For Skipton, Bank of Ireland (UK) and Mizuho only the location part of the code, its seventh and eighth characters, was wrong. All eleven surfaced on 26 September 2026, when every BIC in our tables that no authority places was read against the registers one by one.

    Affected
    eleven institutions and their eleven SWIFT codes, eight of which were also the four letters the IBAN checker read the bank from (GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    TSB Bank as TSFGGB2A, Metro Bank as MSBEGB2A, Atom Bank as ATBKGB21, Aldermore Bank as ALDMGB2L, OakNorth Bank as OXBKGB21, Coventry Building Society as COVIGB21, Yorkshire Building Society as YORSGB21, Goldman Sachs International as GSCOGB2L, Skipton Building Society as SKIPGB21, Bank of Ireland (UK) as BOFIGB22 and Mizuho Bank's London branch as MHCBGB22. For the first eight, the checker also read the bank from those four letters, so a real IBAN at any of them, which carries TSBS, MYMB, ATMB, ALDB, OAKN, COBS, YORB or GSIL, was answered as a bank not in our directory. TSB and Metro Bank each had a second page as well, one for the invented code and one for the real one.
    Correct
    the code each institution is registered under: TSBSGB2A, MYMBGB2L, ATMBGB22, ALDBGB21, OAKNGB22, COBSGB21, YORBGB2V, GSILGB2X, SKIPGB22, BOFIGB2B and MHCBGB2L, with the IBAN bank code taken from the first four letters. TSB's and Metro Bank's second pages now redirect to the page of the row that carries the registered code, and ten of the old codes redirect to their bank. BOFIGB22 does not: it is a real code of Bank of Ireland's trade finance unit in Belfast, a different part of the group, so it no longer names Bank of Ireland (UK) and is not sent to it.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which registers each corrected code to its institution and has no record of any of the old ones; SWIFT's own BIC directory, which has no code under the TSFG, MSBE, ATBK, ALDM, OXBK, COVI, YORS or GSCO prefixes, holds only SKIPGB22 for Skipton, and gives BOFIGB22 to Bank of Ireland (Trade Finance Belfast); the EPC's SCT register, which publishes TSBSGB2A, MYMBGB2L, BOFIGB2B and MHCBGB2L; and the banks' own pages, where TSB, Metro Bank and Bank of Ireland print their codes.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026

    The addresses /bank/tsb-bank and /bank/metro-bank now redirect to /bank/tsb-bank-plc and /bank/metro-bank-plc, the pages of the rows that carry the registered codes.

  46. Corrected

    Tesco Bank was shown as an independent bank, under a code nobody issued

    the code was invented when the UK table was written and nothing asked whether it existed, so nothing noticed the takeover either: a row tied to no register record has no record to change.

    Affected
    TLLXGB22 (GB) · /bank/tesco-bank, /swift/tllxgb22, the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    Tesco Bank as an active bank with the SWIFT code TLLXGB22 and the IBAN bank code TLLX, at /bank/tesco-bank, at /swift/tllxgb22 and on the IBAN result card.
    Correct
    Barclays Bank UK PLC bought Tesco Bank's banking business, its credit cards, loans and deposits, in November 2024, and runs it under the Tesco Bank name. Tesco Bank's own SWIFT codes are TPFGGB2E and TPFGGB2L, both now registered to Barclays Bank UK PLC. The page now shows Tesco Bank as merged into Barclays Bank UK PLC under TPFGGB2E, and /swift/tllxgb22 redirects there. The checker no longer answers the invented TLLX, and it does not answer TPFG either: no published Tesco Bank IBAN has shown which four letters it carries, so we have not written one in.
    Settled by
    Barclays' own announcement of the completed acquisition; SWIFT's BIC directory, which registers TPFGGB2E and TPFGGB2L to Barclays Bank UK PLC; and GLEIF, which lists both among Barclays Bank UK PLC's codes (LEI 213800UUGANOMFJ9X769) and has no record of TLLXGB22.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026
  47. Corrected

    Two UK institutions were named as a different legal entity

    both names were written by hand, and the check on names accepted them because GLEIF holds no record for either code, which it read as normal for a branch instead of as a reason to look further.

    Affected
    two institutions, REVOGB21 and AIBKGB2L (GB) · /bank/revolut-uk, /swift/revogb21, /bank/allied-irish-banks-gb, /swift/aibkgb2l, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    REVOGB21 as “Revolut UK”, with “Revolut Bank UAB (UK branch)” as its legal name, and AIBKGB2L as “Allied Irish Banks GB”, legal name “Allied Irish Banks (GB) Limited”, on the result card and on /bank/revolut-uk and /bank/allied-irish-banks-gb.
    Correct
    REVOGB21 is Revolut Ltd, the UK e-money institution that provides a UK customer's account. Revolut Bank UAB is the Lithuanian bank, a different company, and Revolut's UK bank, Revolut Bank UK Ltd, holds a separate code, REVOGB3L. AIBKGB2L is AIB Group (UK) p.l.c., which trades in Great Britain as Allied Irish Bank (GB); no company called Allied Irish Banks (GB) Limited is registered.
    Settled by
    the EPC's SCT register and SWIFT's BIC directory, which give REVOGB21 to Revolut Ltd; Revolut's own help page on which Revolut company provides UK services; Companies House, for Revolut Ltd (08804411) and AIB Group (UK) p.l.c. (NI018800); and Allied Irish Bank (GB)'s own international payments page, which gives both the code and the trading name.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026
  48. Corrected

    The sample IBAN on most UK bank pages carried NatWest's sort code

    the sample was made by putting each bank's code into the official example and leaving the rest alone. That is enough in countries where the bank code is the only part that identifies the bank, and not in the UK, where the sort code does too.

    Affected
    the sample IBAN on 45 UK bank pages (GB) · /bank/[slug]
    We showed
    an illustrative IBAN built from each bank's own code and the rest of the official UK example, whose sort code, 60-16-13, is NatWest's. On twelve pages (Santander, Lloyds, HSBC UK, HSBC Bank, Barclays, Barclays Bank UK, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Virgin Money, Nationwide, TSB and the Co-operative Bank) our own checker flagged the sample as a bank code and a sort code belonging to two different banks; on the others it described an account no bank could hold.
    Correct
    each sample uses a sort code that belongs to the bank named on the page. Ten banks we hold no verified sort code for, among them Revolut, Bank of Ireland (UK), JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs International and Mizuho, now show the generic UK example, labelled as not their account. NatWest's page keeps the official example, which is its own.
    Settled by
    the sort-code check this site runs on every UK IBAN, which flagged the old samples and passes every new one; the sort code for each bank is the one our cross-check has used since June 2026, recorded from public sort-code directories, the published allocation ranges and, for Starling and Aldermore, the banks' own sites.
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026
  49. Corrected

    Austria's local Raiffeisen banks were shown with their Landesbank's logo

    a logo is stored against the first eight characters of a BIC and used for every longer code beneath them. That is right for the codes that are one bank's own branches, and it is how these banks came to show a mark that was never theirs. The drawings had been checked; which banks they reached through that fallback had not.

    Affected
    130 banks on 242 bank codes, beneath the BICs of three Landesbanken: RZOOAT2L, RZSTAT2G and RLNWATWW (AT) · the IBAN result card, /swift/rlnwatwwgae
    We showed
    the result card for an IBAN at any of these banks carried the lockup of the Landesbank whose BIC prefix the bank shares: Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich on 63 banks in Upper Austria, Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark on 39 in Styria and Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien on 28 in Lower Austria. Each lockup spells out the Landesbank's name, so the card named a different bank from the one that holds the account. /swift/rlnwatwwgae showed the same for Raiffeisen-Regionalbank Gänserndorf.
    Correct
    no logo. Each of these banks is a cooperative in its own right, listed under its own name and bank code in the OeNB directory; Raiffeisenbank Perg eGen, for one, is RZOOAT2L777. A BIC that begins with the Landesbank's eight characters does not make the Landesbank's mark the bank's own. The three Landesbanken keep their lockups on their own codes.
    Settled by
    the OeNB SEPA directory, which lists each of these codes under its own bank; GLEIF, which holds Raiffeisen-Regionalbank Gänserndorf eGen under its own LEI with the BIC RLNWATWWGAE; and the three lockups themselves, each of which names its Landesbank
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026

    The check that reviews every served logo read only eight-character keys, so a logo filed under a whole BIC could have brought the same fault back unseen. It reads whole BICs as well now, which was proved by adding one such key and watching the build fail.

  50. Corrected

    Two banks were shown with the mark of the bank whose BIC prefix they share

    the same fallback as the Austrian entry above: a code beneath a prefix used the prefix's logo unless something said it belonged to another bank, and nothing did.

    Affected
    two banks: CCRIES2A045 and DRESDEFFBFC (DE, ES) · /swift/ccries2a045, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Caixa Rural Altea (CCRIES2A045) with Cajamar's mark at /swift/ccries2a045, and Wüstenrot Bausparkasse (DRESDEFFBFC, bank code 70220900) with Commerzbank's on the IBAN result card
    Correct
    no logo for either. Caixa Rural Altea is a credit cooperative with its own LEI, and Wüstenrot Bausparkasse AG is a separate company with its own LEI; its bank code 70220900 sits under a BIC that still carries the prefix of Dresdner Bank, whose other codes the Bundesbank register now lists as Commerzbank's.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which holds Caixa Rural Altea Cooperativa de Crèdit Valenciana under the BIC CCRIES2A045 (LEI 635400AAPLXTJGKCMB39) and Wüstenrot Bausparkasse AG under its own LEI (529900S1KHKOEQL5CK20); the Bundesbank register, which gives 70220900 and DRESDEFFBFC to Wüstenrot Bausparkasse
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026
  51. Corrected

    A closed bank's IBANs still showed SEPA scheme badges on the result card

    the badges are fetched separately from the rest of the card, and that request did not carry the bank's status, so the part of the card that lists them could not tell the bank had closed. The correction of 20 September removed the SEPA badge from the bank's own pages and did not reach this one.

    Affected
    ICBCNL2A (NL) · the IBAN result card
    We showed
    for an IBAN at Mega International Commercial Bank's Amsterdam branch, the result card marked the bank closed and, beneath that, still listed its SEPA scheme registrations, with a green tick beside SEPA Credit Transfer
    Correct
    no scheme badges. The branch closed its remaining accounts on 30 July 2026 and says it may no longer provide banking services in the Netherlands, so a list of the schemes it had signed up to reads as a promise that a payment to it will be taken. Banks that have merged keep their badges; only a closure removes them.
    Settled by
    the branch's own notice to former account holders, dated 7 August 2026, as recorded in the entry of 20 September 2026
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026
  52. Corrected

    Sixteen banks that had closed or merged were described in search results as taking SEPA payments

    the descriptions were written from the scheme registrations alone and never read the bank's status, although the status was on the same page.

    Affected
    sixteen banks: ERBKCY2N, PIRBCY2N, TABUEE22, SIFBFRP1, GRMAFRPP, GUAVGB22, BLDOIE21, GORUIE21, ROCIIE21, FECNIE21, MPCUIE21, ULSBIE2D, LIPYLT22, UALTLT22, RAPSLUL1, FTCSSESS (CY, EE, FR, GB, IE, LT, LU, SE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    the description a search engine prints under the page. Ten of these banks were described as registered for SEPA Instant, Verification of Payee or both, for example “UAB Lux International Payment System is registered for SEPA instant transfers and Verification of Payee”, and for six closed banks the SWIFT code page added “SEPA member, euro transfers supported”. The pages themselves already said the bank had closed or merged.
    Correct
    descriptions that make no scheme or transfer claim for a bank that is no longer operating. The SWIFT code pages of merged banks still describe the code as a SEPA member, in line with the scheme badges those banks keep on the result card.
    Settled by
    the closures and mergers already recorded on each bank's page, each with its own source; several are the subject of the entries of 15 and 20 September on this page
    Detected
    26 September 2026
    Corrected
    26 September 2026
  53. Corrected

    The State Bank of Pakistan was shown under a SWIFT code that does not exist

    the code was in Pakistan's table from the day the table was written and was never checked against a register. When GLEIF returned nothing for it, that was read as normal for a central bank, many of which hold no LEI, and the check that asks whether each BIC exists at all listed it on its first run in a queue that had not yet been read. It surfaced when every Pakistani bank code was checked against real IBANs for the Pakistan IBAN generator.

    Affected
    SBPKPKKA (PK) · /swift/sbpkpkka, /bank/state-bank-of-pakistan, the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    “State Bank of Pakistan SWIFT Code: SBPKPKKA BIC” at /swift/sbpkpkka, the same code on the bank's page and in the developer API, and SBPK as the IBAN bank code the checker read the State Bank from. A visitor could have copied SBPKPKKA into a payment.
    Correct
    the State Bank of Pakistan's BIC is SBPPPKKA. SBPKPKKA is not a SWIFT code: GLEIF has no record of it, and SBPK appears in no IBAN we could find. The State Bank's own account appears under the bank code SBPD, and an account it holds for a bank under SBPP; the checker now reads both as the State Bank.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which registers SBPPPKKA to the State Bank of Pakistan (LEI TZY4KQ6WP35IRETGM191) and returns nothing for SBPKPKKA; the State Bank's own circulars, which give “Payee's SWIFT Code: SBPPPKKA”; and the State Bank's 2018 Dams Fund IBAN list, which carries an account the State Bank holds under SBPP.
    Detected
    25 September 2026
    Corrected
    25 September 2026

    The old code's address now redirects to /swift/sbpppkka, and the bank's page names the code it was once published under, with the record that settled it.

  54. Corrected

    Four more banks, Banca d’Italia among them, were shown under an English name they do not use

    the same fault as the three batches before it, reaching four rows those passes did not compare. Three of them were a second page for a bank that already had one, and the check that finds a bank with two pages only reports a pair that agrees on the name: where the twins disagreed it said nothing, which is exactly where a wrong name could sit. Banca d’Italia was missed for the other reason recorded in batch three, the assumption that a central bank’s translated name is an official one.

    Affected
    four directory rows in four countries, each with its own indexed page (IT) · /bank/bank-of-italy, /bank/bank-of-estonia, /bank/slovak-state-treasury, /bank/german-pfandbrief-bank-ag-pbb, /swift/bitaitrr, /swift/epbeee2x, /swift/spsrskba, /swift/rebmdemm
    We showed
    Banca d’Italia appeared as “Bank of Italy”, Eesti Pank as “Bank of Estonia”, Štátna pokladnica as “Slovak State Treasury”, and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG as “German Pfandbrief Bank AG (pbb)”. The page titles, the meta descriptions and three of the four addresses said the same.
    Correct
    each institution’s own name. The three folded addresses answer with a redirect; Banca d’Italia keeps its address for now, because the one slot a row has for a retired address is already holding an older one and moving it would turn a working redirect into a 404.
    Settled by
    each institution’s own English page, read before the row was touched. bancaditalia.it in English is titled “Banca d’Italia - The official site of Italy’s Central Bank” and writes “Banca d’Italia” 38 times against “Bank of Italy” once; eestipank.ee/en is titled “Eesti Pank” and writes “Bank of Estonia” none; pokladnica.sk publishes no English site at all, its /en is a 404, and GLEIF holds no record for the BIC; pfandbriefbank.com is titled “Home | Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG”.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  55. Corrected

    RCB Bank carried the loss of its licence inside its name

    a lifecycle fact written into a name, and a second copy of one: status, and the notice beside it, already said it. The row surfaced when the name gate was rebuilt against current data and GLEIF answered the BIC with FINSTELLA LTD.

    Affected
    RCBLCY2I (CY) · /bank/rcb-bank-cyprus-banking-licence-relinquished-2022, /swift/rcblcy2i
    We showed
    the bank was named “RCB Bank Cyprus (banking licence relinquished 2022)”, in the page title, in the meta description and in the address itself, /bank/rcb-bank-cyprus-banking-licence-relinquished-2022
    Correct
    RCB Bank Ltd. The bank is still held as closed and the notice on the page still carries the ECB’s withdrawal announcement and the fact that the company continues as Finstella Ltd and is no longer a bank, which is where that belongs. The address is unchanged for now: the row’s one slot for a retired address already holds an older one.
    Settled by
    the ECB’s announcement that it withdrew the licence on 22 December 2022, the bank’s own surrender announcement, and GLEIF, which holds the same LEI under the renamed company
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  56. Corrected

    Berlin Hyp was shown as registered for Verification of Payee

    the first importer of this register wrote the flag by the first eight characters of the BIC. SOLADEST belongs to Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, and SOLADESTHYP is the code of Berlin Hyp, so LBBW’s registration spread to it. (We described Berlin Hyp here as a separate bank with its own licence; since 1 August 2025 it is a dependent institution of LBBW, corrected on 13 October 2026.) This is the shared-prefix fault in a new column, and it had been guarded against once already: the list of branches allowed to inherit a parent’s scheme flags deliberately excludes this pair, and the eight-character update put back what that list had refused. The importer now matches the whole BIC, and falls back to the eight-character form only when the register’s participant name matches ours.

    Affected
    SOLADESTHYP (DE) · /bank/berlin-hyp-ag, /swift/soladesthyp
    We showed
    the bank page described Berlin Hyp AG as “registered for SEPA Verification of Payee”, and the IBAN result card showed the Verification of Payee chip for any Berlin Hyp IBAN
    Correct
    the EPC register holds no Verification of Payee entry for Berlin Hyp. Nothing is shown in its place: the chip is hidden when a bank is not a registered participant, because an absence is not a claim that it refused to join.
    Settled by
    the EPC Verification of Payee register of participants, which lists SOLADESTXXX as Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg and carries no row for SOLADESTHYP at all
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026

    Found while measuring why two pages for the same bank were describing it differently. Asking the register the opposite question at the same time filled in 58 banks that are registered and were not flagged.

  57. Corrected

    Federal Finance’s “Official website” link went to an unrelated company

    the check that approves a stored website compares the page against the name we hold, and folding the accent away makes Fédéral Finance Group match Federal Finance. Nothing else looks at a link once it is stored, so a name that is almost ours passes once and then stays.

    Affected
    FEFIFR21 (FR) · /bank/federal-finance, /swift/fefifr21
    We showed
    the page linked to federalfinancegroup.com, which titles itself Fédéral Finance Group and offers non-repayable financing for social-innovation projects
    Correct
    this row is Crédit Mutuel Arkéa’s asset manager in Brest. No replacement link is published: the bare host federal-finance.fr does not resolve, and www.federal-finance.fr redirects into arkea-is.com, the group’s investment-services site, which names many entities rather than this one
    Settled by
    the page’s own title, and GLEIF on FEFIFR21XXX, which holds FEDERAL FINANCE as active at Le Relecq-Kerhuon with ARKEA BANQUE PRIVEE as a former name
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026

    Found while restoring the capitalisation of the French bank table: the entry read FEDERAL FINANCE, and the page that was supposed to settle its casing turned out to belong to somebody else.

  58. Corrected

    Twelve more banks, five central banks among them, were shown under an English name they do not use

    two faults met. The earlier passes on this fault corrected the tables the engine reads, but three of those rows could not be written to the directory because a duplicate row already held the name and address the correction wanted, so the tables were cleaned and the pages went on showing the old name. And the gate that compares the two sides could not see those rows at all: it pairs a directory row to a table entry by routing code, or by BIC when exactly one row carries it, and a row with a twin fails both tests. Fifty-four rows sat in that gap. The central banks are the other half: they had been left alone on the assumption that a translated name is an official one, which for these five is not what the institutions publish.

    Affected
    twelve directory rows across seven countries, eleven of which had their own indexed page (DE) · /bank/banque-de-france, /bank/banco-de-espana, /bank/banka-slovenije, /bank/banque-centrale-du-luxembourg, /bank/landwirtschaftliche-rentenbank, /bank/banco-di-sardegna-spa, /bank/bnl-banca-nazionale-del-lavoro, /bank/banco-cooperativo-espanol-sa, /bank/banco-de-credito-social-cooperativo-sa, /bank/apobank
    We showed
    Banque de France appeared as “Bank of France”, Banco de España as “Bank of Spain”, Banka Slovenije as “Bank of Slovenia”, Banque centrale du Luxembourg as “Central Bank of Luxembourg”. Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank appeared as “Agricultural Rentenbank”, Banco di Sardegna as “Bank of Sardinia SpA”, BNL as “BNL (National Labour Bank)”, and two Spanish cooperative banks as “Spanish Cooperative Bank SA” and “Social Cooperative Credit Bank SA”. The addresses said the same.
    Correct
    each bank's own name. Old addresses answer with a redirect. Five of the twelve rows were a second page for a bank that already had one, so they now share that page rather than keeping a renamed copy of it.
    Settled by
    each institution's own English site, read before the row was touched. banque-france.fr/en uses “Banque de France” 35 times and “Bank of France” none in 13,147 characters; bde.es/wbe/en “Banco de España” 37 and “Bank of Spain” none; bsi.si/en “Banka Slovenije” 19 and “Bank of Slovenia” none; bcl.lu/en is titled “Banque centrale du Luxembourg - English”. rentenbank.de/en is titled “Home - Rentenbank”. Banco di Sardegna and BNL publish no English site at all, so neither English name has a source. Central banks that do publish one keep it: cnb.cz/en is titled “Czech National Bank”, bnr.ro/en “National Bank of Romania”, and those rows were left alone.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  59. Corrected

    BW-Bank's “Official website” link went to its parent

    BW-Bank is a division of LBBW and the group site was a defensible-looking value when it was first stored. A stored website is checked once and then not again, and nothing rechecks whether the page still names the bank it is filed under. This one never did.

    Affected
    SOLADEST (DE) · /bank/baden-wurttembergische-bank, /swift/soladest
    We showed
    Baden-Württembergische Bank's page linked to lbbw.de, which is Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. Someone following it left for a different bank without being told.
    Correct
    bw-bank.de, which the bank runs itself and which is titled “Internetfiliale | BW-Bank”.
    Settled by
    bw-bank.de itself, put through the same check the audit uses before the value was stored: the page names Baden-Württembergische Bank, not only the brand.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  60. Corrected

    Nine more banks were shown under an English name nobody uses, and seven carried a label after theirs

    the first pass on the same fault, earlier the same day, matched English renderings against a list of phrases that did not include “State Bank”, so a whole family of German state banks was missed. The seven labels are the other half of the rule: a fact that is not a name does not belong in the name, and `type` already recorded that these are central banks.

    Affected
    sixteen directory rows: six German Landesbanken and three others, plus seven central banks (DE) · /bank/bayerische-landesbank, /bank/norddeutsche-landesbank, /bank/landesbank-hessen-thuringen, /bank/nassauische-sparkasse, /bank/baden-wurttembergische-bank, /bank/hrvatska-postanska-banka-dd, /bank/banque-et-caisse-depargne-de-letat, /bank/bank-of-greece, /bank/bank-of-france, /bank/banque-du-liban
    We showed
    Bayerische Landesbank appeared as “Bavarian State Bank”, Norddeutsche Landesbank as “North German State Bank”, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen as “Hessian-Thuringian State Bank”, Nassauische Sparkasse as “Nassau Savings Bank”, Hrvatska poštanska banka as “Croatian Post Bank”. Seven central banks were shown with “(Central Bank)” after the name. Twelve of the addresses said the same.
    Correct
    Each bank's own name. The central banks keep their official English names without the label, which is not part of any name. Old addresses still answer with a redirect.
    Settled by
    each bank's own English page, read before the row was touched: bayernlb.com is titled “BayernLB”, nordlb.com “NORD/LB”, helaba.com “Helaba”, lbbw.de/en “LBBW”, naspa.de “Nassauische Sparkasse”, spuerkeess.lu/en “Spuerkeess”, and hpb.hr/en never writes “Croatian Post Bank” at all. L-Bank was deliberately left unchanged on the same evidence, because l-bank.info/en really is titled “State Bank of Baden-Württemberg” and that English name is its own.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  61. Corrected

    Twelve banks were shown under an English name nobody uses

    the field that holds an English name is the field the page prints, so a translation put there is not an alternative label but the name shown. There was no written rule for what belongs in it, and translating a name reads like filling a gap rather than inventing something. It is a real fault because the one reader we have is someone matching our answer against their own bank, and a name no bank, register or card uses is exactly what defeats that.

    Affected
    twelve directory rows, nine of them German savings or cooperative banks, plus one Czech and two Spanish (DE) · /bank/frankfurter-sparkasse, /bank/stadtsparkasse-munchen, /bank/sparkasse-hannover, /bank/sparkasse-bremen, /bank/ostsachsische-sparkasse-dresden, /bank/volksbank-rhein-ruhr-eg, /bank/munchener-hypothekenbank-eg, /bank/gls-gemeinschaftsbank, /bank/ceska-sporitelna-as
    We showed
    An English rendering made here, as the bank's name. Frankfurter Sparkasse appeared as “Frankfurt Savings Bank”, Stadtsparkasse München as “Munich City Savings Bank”, Volksbank Rhein-Ruhr eG as “Rhine-Ruhr People’s Bank eG”, Česká spořitelna as “Czech Savings Bank AS”. Nine of the addresses said the same, so the page for Frankfurter Sparkasse lived at /bank/frankfurt-savings-bank.
    Correct
    Each bank's own name, the one its register and its own site use. The English renderings are gone, and the old addresses still answer with a redirect.
    Settled by
    each bank's own English page, read before the row was touched: frankfurter-sparkasse.de/en is titled “Frankfurter Sparkasse”, csas.cz/en “Česká spořitelna”, rentenbank.de/en “Rentenbank”, mhb.de/en “MünchenerHyp”. For the German rows the Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen file, already the source for those names, publishes the same. Central banks were deliberately left alone: “Bank of Slovenia” and “National Bank of Slovakia” are their institutions' own official English names rather than renderings made here.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  62. Corrected

    A retired address sent readers to a different bank

    a row holds one retired address, so when a row retires a second one it either overwrites the first or is left on whichever row was being edited at the time. This address was left on Landesbank Baden-Württemberg's row in June 2026, when that bank's routing code was corrected after having been mislabelled as the Dresden savings bank. Two more were found the same way: Aktia Bank claimed /bank/op and ING Belgium claimed /bank/belfius, and both of those resolved correctly only because the other row happened to be found first.

    Affected
    OSDDDE81 (DE) · /bank/ostsachsische-sparkasse-dresden, /bank/op-financial-group
    We showed
    /bank/east-saxon-savings-bank-dresden redirected to Landesbank Baden-Württemberg's page. Someone following an old link to the Dresden savings bank arrived at a different institution, with no sign anything had gone wrong.
    Correct
    It redirects to Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, the bank whose name the address carries.
    Settled by
    the directory itself, by listing every retired address claimed by more than one row. Five are, and the two that remain are the deliberate arrangement where a French bank is listed twice for Monaco and both rows point at the same page.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  63. Corrected

    Rakuten Europe Bank had stopped taking business and was still shown as operating

    a bank that stops quietly leaves nothing for our checks to catch. The BIC resolves, the name is right, the LEI is active and the CSSF still lists it, so no sweep fires. It was found by re-reading every stored website and looking for a page that says the institution has stopped.

    Affected
    RAPSLUL1 (LU) · /bank/rakuten-europe-bank-sa, /swift/rapslul1
    We showed
    Rakuten Europe Bank S.A. as an operating bank, with a SEPA badge and an illustrative IBAN.
    Correct
    The bank has ceased its e-money activities and terminated its customer relations, and is applying for the voluntary withdrawal of its banking licence. Anyone who believes they still hold a redeemable balance is asked to contact the bank; no bank took the business on.
    Settled by
    the bank's own notice, which is now the whole of its website, dated 16 January 2026, and the CSSF entity register, which still carries it as an authorised bank with no end date. Those do not conflict: the bank says it remains subject to its regulatory obligations until the licence withdrawal completes, and both are cited on the page.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026
  64. Corrected

    Three banks' official website links led somewhere that was not theirs

    a stored website is checked when it is first written and then not again. These three were all correct when they were stored; a domain was retired, a company's web presence was taken down, and a certificate stopped covering a bare hostname. Only re-reading all of them finds that.

    Affected
    three directory rows in three countries: ASRNIE21, UAAALT22 and CHKHMNUB (IE) · /bank/education-credit-union-limited, /swift/asrnie21, /bank/hokodo, /swift/uaaalt22, /bank/chinggis-khaan-bank, /swift/chkhmnub
    We showed
    An “Official website” link on each bank's page. Education Credit Union's went to another credit union's home page, Hokodo's to a retired archive of its old site, and Chinggis Khaan Bank's to a host whose certificate does not cover it, which a browser refuses.
    Correct
    Chinggis Khaan Bank's link now points at the host the bank actually serves. The other two have no site of their own left to point at, so the link is gone rather than replaced.
    Settled by
    each domain itself: edcu.ie, educationcu.ie and educationcreditunion.ie all redirect to comharlinnintocu.ie, whose footer prints registration 393CU while GLEIF holds 409CU for Education Credit Union; hokodo.co answers 503 from a deployment named hokodo-website-archive and hokodo.com redirects to a GoDaddy for-sale page; and ckbank.mn presents a certificate for *.ckbank.mn, which does not cover the bare name, while www.ckbank.mn serves the bank.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026

    Education Credit Union's status is unchanged. Its members voted on 26 August 2026 in favour of a transfer of engagements to Comhar Linn INTO Credit Union, but the acquirer's own announcement says that for now it is business as usual with no changes to member accounts, and the Central Bank still registers the union. Approved is not the same as effected.

  65. Corrected

    Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich's German branch was shown under a name it no longer uses

    the row came from the EPC scheme registers, which still publish that wording and file this German branch under Austria. Nothing of ours could see it: the BIC resolves, the routing is right, and our own German register tail already held the current name under the Bundesbank code 74020100, but the drift gate pairs a directory row to a table entry by country and bank code, and this row is filed AT|RZOO against a DE|74020100 entry. It surfaced only because the branch's own site was read before its address was stored.

    Affected
    RZOODE77 (AT) · /bank/raiffeisenlandesbank-oberoesterreich-ag-zweigniederlassung-sueddeutschland, /swift/rzoode77
    We showed
    Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberoesterreich AG Zweigniederlassung Sueddeutschland.
    Correct
    Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG, Niederlassung Deutschland. The old name is kept on the row and the old address still redirects.
    Settled by
    the Deutsche Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen file, which carries code 74020100 as “Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich Ndl Deutschland” with BIC RZOODE77XXX, and the branch's own Impressum, which names “Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich Aktiengesellschaft, Niederlassung Deutschland”, entered at Amtsgericht München under HRB 221623 as a branch of the Linz bank. The EPC registers still publish the older form, and that is recorded rather than resolved.
    Detected
    21 September 2026
    Corrected
    21 September 2026

    The stored city, Passau, is left alone. The Bundesbank and the bank's own Impressum both put the branch's seat in München, and Passau is one of the nine southern-German locations the bank still runs, but rewriting a registered office is an address job with its own method.

  66. Corrected

    Four Irish credit unions had transferred their engagements and all four still showed as operating

    a transfer of engagements leaves nothing for our checks to catch. The BIC still resolves, the name is still the name, and the Central Bank's register still lists the transferor, so no sweep fires. Irish credit unions merge steadily and this directory had never been read against that.

    Affected
    four directory rows: GORUIE21, SLCNIE21, FECNIE21 and MPCUIE21 (IE) · /bank/gort-credit-union-limited, /bank/slane-credit-union-limited, /bank/synergy-credit-union-limited, /bank/unity-credit-union-ltd, /swift/goruie21, /swift/slcnie21, /swift/fecnie21, /swift/mpcuie21
    We showed
    Gort, Slane, Synergy and Unity Credit Union as operating institutions, each with a SEPA badge and an illustrative IBAN.
    Correct
    Each had transferred its engagements to another credit union: Gort to Gateway, Slane to Drogheda, Synergy to Elevate, and Unity to Cois Sionna Desmond. Every one of those four is already a page here, so each row now names where its members went.
    Settled by
    each acquiring credit union's own page: Gateway welcoming Gort members on 24 February 2026, Drogheda's notice that Slane “reopens its doors as part of Drogheda Credit Union, following the successful completion of our recent Transfer of Engagements” on 26 February 2026, Elevate's “Welcome to the Elevate Family, Synergy Members”, and Cois Sionna Desmond's own account of merging with “Unity Credit Union in 2026”. The Central Bank of Ireland's register still lists all four transferors, and that is stated on each row rather than resolved.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    Found by comparing the registration number each site prints against the one GLEIF holds for the row. slanecreditunion.ie prints 23CU, which belongs to Drogheda, while Slane is 148CU; synergycu.ie prints 46CU, which belongs to Elevate, while Synergy is 126CU. None of the four codes is claimed to have stopped routing, because that has not been checked.

  67. Corrected

    A branch that stopped banking in the Netherlands was still shown as an active SEPA bank

    a branch that winds down leaves no trace in the checks that watch this directory. The BIC still resolves, the name is still right, and the licence register still lists it, so nothing fires. It was found by reading the page that was about to be stored as this row's website, which carries the notice.

    Affected
    ICBCNL2A (NL) · /bank/mega-international-commercial-bank-co-ltd-amsterdam-branch, /swift/icbcnl2a
    We showed
    Mega International Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. (Amsterdam Branch) as an operating bank, with a SEPA badge and an illustrative IBAN.
    Correct
    It stopped. The branch announced on 13 January 2026 that it would discontinue its banking activities in the Netherlands and return its banking licence, says it is no longer permitted to provide banking services or offer bank accounts there, and closed all remaining accounts on 30 July 2026. Money not claimed by 20 May 2026 was transferred to the Consignment Fund held by the Dutch Ministry of Finance, which is where a former customer has to claim it.
    Settled by
    the branch's own notice to former account holders, dated 7 August 2026, on its page on the parent's site. De Nederlandsche Bank's public register does not yet agree: read on 20 September 2026, the day it was last updated, it still carried the branch under article 2:20(1) with no end date against any activity. Both are linked on the page. The branch's own account of its operations is what we follow, because the accounts being closed is the part a reader with a payment to make needs.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    The page now carries the wind-down notice with both sources and no longer offers a SEPA badge or an illustrative IBAN. The bank code is not claimed to have stopped routing, because that is not something we have checked.

  68. Corrected

    Two Norwegian savings banks are one bank now, and both pages kept the old names

    the company behind Sparebanken DIN was dissolved on 1 June 2026 and the surviving company, the former Drangedal one, was renamed. A merger leaves no trace in the checks that watch this directory: both codes still resolve, both still clear payments, and the names they resolved to were the names we held. GLEIF is behind on both, still carrying the old name against one code and an active registration for the dissolved company against the other, so no GLEIF sweep could have seen it either. Our own Norwegian routing table had the new name all along, which is why a validated Norwegian IBAN returned Telemark Sparebank while these two pages did not.

    Affected
    two directory rows, DRANNO21 and BSPANO21 (NO) · /bank/drangedal-og-tordal-sparebank, /bank/sparebanken-din, /swift/dranno21, /swift/bspano21
    We showed
    Drangedal og Tordal Sparebank on one page and Sparebanken DIN on the other, as two separate banks.
    Correct
    Telemark Sparebank, one institution carrying both codes. The bank prints the pair itself, “SWIFT DRANNO21 / BSPANO21”, in the footer of each of its two sites.
    Settled by
    the Brønnøysund Register Centre, which holds organisation number 937891601 as TELEMARK SPAREBANK and records 937891512, SPAREBANKEN DIN TELEMARK, as deleted on 1 June 2026; and the bank's own two sites, each titled Telemark Sparebank and each printing organisation number 937891601 with both SWIFT codes.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    Both rows now carry the same name and the same page, the way two merged Austrian Sparkassen already share one. Each keeps its own old address as a redirect, and neither code is marked closed: what merged is the company behind one of them, not the code, and both still clear.

  69. Corrected

    Türk Eximbank's legal name was one word wrong

    the divergence was seen on 13 September and held on two premises, both of which turned out to be wrong: that the bank's own site was unreachable to us, and that the register to ask was the TCMB. The site answers fine at its home page, and the register that licenses banks in Türkiye is the BDDK. The wrong word almost certainly came from the brand sitting next to it.

    Affected
    TIKBTR2AXXX (TR) · /bank/turk-eximbank, /swift/tikbtr2a
    We showed
    Türk İhracat Kredi Bankası A.Ş.
    Correct
    Türkiye İhracat Kredi Bankası A.Ş. The brand, Türk Eximbank, was always right and is what the pages are titled with; only the legal name underneath it was wrong.
    Settled by
    the BDDK list of banks in operation, which records the institution under EFT code 16, the domestic code this row is filed on, as TÜRKİYE İHRACAT KREDİ BANKASI A.Ş. GLEIF gives the same legal name, and the bank's own home page prints it beside the brand.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    This is not a rename. The regulator records no former name for the institution, so nothing about the bank changed; the name we published was simply wrong. The address of the page is built from the brand and did not move.

  70. Corrected

    A British bank was linked to its Japanese parent's website

    the same shape as the nine Türkiye rows corrected on 19 September: a subsidiary filed under the group's most prominent address. It surfaced while reading a separate question about the bank's name, which was already right.

    Affected
    SMBCGB2LXXX (GB) · /bank/smbc-london, /swift/smbcgb2l
    We showed
    smbc.co.jp was offered as the official website. That site belongs to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, the Japanese parent, which is a separate legal person with its own BIC.
    Correct
    the group's EMEA site, which is the one that names this company. SMBC Bank International plc publishes no site of its own.
    Settled by
    the EMEA site's terms of use, which names SMBC Bank International plc; Companies House 04684034 for the company itself.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    The replacement is a regional site shared with SMBC Bank EU AG rather than this company's own, which is why it is offered as the site that names the bank and not as the bank's own.

  71. Corrected

    Tonio Limited was renamed three months before we noticed

    the divergence was seen on 15 September and held on the grounds that nothing corroborated either name. Companies House did, and was not asked. The website went unquestioned because the page carried the name we were already showing, so the two propped each other up: once the name was wrong, nothing tied the page to the company.

    Affected
    TONIGB22 (GB) · /bank/global-remit-xchange-limited, /swift/tonigb22
    We showed
    The bank was named Tonio Limited, and tonio.world was offered as its official website.
    Correct
    Global Remit Xchange Limited. No website is offered in place of the old one, because none could be tied to the company.
    Settled by
    Companies House, company 05103590, which records TONIO LIMITED as a previous name for the period 16 April 2004 to 18 June 2026 and the company as Global Remit Xchange Limited today. GLEIF carries the same name against this BIC and updated its record on 13 August 2026. tonio.world was read directly: its entire visible content is the word Tonio, with no company, regulator or contact details.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    The old address, /bank/tonio-limited, redirects. A site at globalremit.com exists but names neither this company nor its number, and more than one business trades under that name, so it was not offered.

  72. Corrected

    A Luxembourg bank that the supervisor no longer lists

    held on 15 September because whether the Luxembourg entity had been absorbed needed a source GLEIF does not provide. The CSSF, which supervises Luxembourg banks, is that source and had not been asked.

    Affected
    BMECLULL (LU) · /bank/banque-populaire-alsace-lorraine-champagne-luxembourg-branch, /swift/bmeclull
    We showed
    BANQUE BCP S.A. LUXEMBOURG.
    Correct
    Banque Populaire Alsace Lorraine Champagne, Succursale du Luxembourg, shown as its Luxembourg branch. The BIC and the address are unchanged.
    Settled by
    the CSSF register of supervised entities, which lists one bank at 5 rue des Mérovingiens in Bertrange, entity B00000424, as Banque Populaire Alsace Lorraine Champagne, Succursale du Luxembourg, and returns nothing at all for Banque BCP. That is the address this row already carried and the address GLEIF gives for the LEI it attributes to this BIC.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    The old address, /bank/banque-bcp-sa-luxembourg, redirects.

  73. Corrected

    GoCardless's payments company was listed under its parent's name

    held on 15 September because the register was thought not to say whether this entity had been renamed. It says the opposite, which settles it just as well: the company was never renamed, so naming it after its parent was simply wrong.

    Affected
    SELNGB21 (GB) · /bank/gocardless, /swift/selngb21
    We showed
    GoCardless Ltd, which is a separate company from the one this BIC belongs to.
    Correct
    Sentenial Limited, shown under the brand it trades as, GoCardless. The website, gocardless.com, was already right.
    Settled by
    Companies House, company 06566456, the number GLEIF registers against this BIC: Sentenial Limited, active, with no previous company names. The brand is corroborated by the company's own former brand domains, nuapay.com and sentenial.com, which both redirect to gocardless.com.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    What the reader saw was close to right, since this is GoCardless's bank-payments company, but the name on the page was that of a different legal person. The old address, /bank/gocardless-ltd, redirects.

  74. Corrected

    Santander's Belgian bank was two renames out of date, and at the wrong address

    the divergence was seen on 15 September and deliberately left. GLEIF gave the current name and recorded Santander Consumer Finance as the former one, but ours was a third name no source carried, which was read as an unproven chain and held. That was the wrong question. Whether our name can be joined to theirs does not matter; what matters is which name the entity carries now, and no authority carried ours. The address was never asked about at all: it came in with the EPC row and was never compared to anything.

    Affected
    BSCHBEBB (BE) · /bank/santander-belgium, /swift/bschbebb
    We showed
    The bank was named SANTANDER BENELUX S.A./N.V. on its pages and in the API, and its address was given as Avenue des Nerviens 85 in Brussels.
    Correct
    Open Bank, S.A., Bijkantoor in België/succursale en Belgique, shown under the brand it trades as, Santander Belgium, at Guldensporenpark 81 in Merelbeke-Melle. The BIC is unchanged: one institution, renamed twice, not a different bank.
    Settled by
    the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, the Belgian statutory register, under the enterprise number GLEIF holds against this BIC, 0763.791.559: it records the branch as Open Bank, S.A., Bijkantoor in België/succursale en Belgique since 13 May 2026, and at Guldensporenpark 81 since 1 January 2025. The bank says the same in its own words on santander.be, which explains that Santander Consumer Finance, S.A. and Openbank, S.A. merged into one legal entity and the name changed with it, and whose legal page prints that same enterprise number.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    The old address, /bank/santander-benelux-sanv, redirects. The NBB protocol list, which is a routing file rather than a company register, still printed the previous name when this was written, so Belgium's register-name check starts with that row accepted in its baseline.

  75. Corrected

    Banque CPH was named with its words the wrong way round

    the row came from the EPC participant list in that form and nothing compared it to a register. Our own Belgian register tail already read Banque CPH, so the directory row was the only surface carrying the words reversed, and the two disagreed with each other without anything noticing.

    Affected
    CPHBBE75 (BE) · /bank/banque-cph, /swift/cphbbe75
    We showed
    CPH BANQUE.
    Correct
    Banque CPH.
    Settled by
    the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises has carried BANQUE CPH as the French name since 2002 under enterprise number 0402.487.939, and the NBB protocol list prints Banque CPH.
    Detected
    20 September 2026
    Corrected
    20 September 2026

    The old address, /bank/cph-banque, redirects.

  76. Corrected

    Turkish Bank A.Ş. is now Freedom Bank A.Ş.

    the rename was seen in September and deliberately not made. The only evidence then was turkishbank.com redirecting to freedom-bank.com.tr, and a redirect alone cannot tell a rename apart from a sale of the business to another bank, so the register was followed instead and the register had not moved. Nothing re-asked afterwards.

    Affected
    TUBATRISXXX (TR) · /bank/freedom-bank, /swift/tubatris
    We showed
    The bank was named Turkish Bank A.Ş. throughout, and no official website was offered, because the one we knew of redirected to a site trading under a different name.
    Correct
    Freedom Bank A.Ş., at freedom-bank.com.tr. The BIC, TUBATRIS, and the bank code, 0096, are unchanged: this is the same institution under a new name, not a new one.
    Settled by
    the BDDK, which licenses banks in Türkiye, lists FREEDOM BANK A.Ş. as in operation and carries no Turkish Bank; the Banks Association of Türkiye member list agrees. That the renamed bank is this record is settled by the bank's own Banka Bilgileri page, which prints MERSIS 0871003631728905, the registration number GLEIF holds against TUBATRIS, beside "Swift BIC Kodu: TUBATRIS".
    Detected
    19 September 2026
    Corrected
    19 September 2026

    The old address, /bank/turkish-bank, redirects. GLEIF still carries the former name, which is why a check that asks GLEIF alone would not have found this: a rename is only visible there once the entity updates its own record.

  77. Corrected

    Nine Turkish banks were linked to their parent's website rather than their own

    when a subsidiary has no site of its own the group's is the honest answer, and that rule was applied here without checking whether these banks had one. They all did.

    Affected
    nine banks, on their pages and in the API (TR) · /bank/bank-mellat, /swift/bkmttris, /bank/bank-of-china-turkey, /swift/bkchtris, /bank/burgan-bank, /swift/tekftris, /bank/citibank, /swift/cititrix, /bank/deutsche-bank, /swift/deuttris, /bank/hsbc-bank, /swift/hsbctrix, /bank/mufg-bank-turkey, /swift/botktris, /bank/societe-generale, /swift/sogetris, /bank/jpmorgan-chase, /swift/chastris
    We showed
    Each row is a bank licensed in Türkiye, but the official website offered was the global group's. Bank Mellat's Istanbul branch was linked to bankmellat.ir, the Iranian parent's site; Bank of China Türkiye to boc.cn; and Deutsche Bank A.Ş., HSBC Bank A.Ş., Citibank A.Ş., Burgan Bank A.Ş., MUFG Bank Turkey A.Ş., Société Générale and JPMorgan Chase each to their group's international address.
    Correct
    the site of the Türkiye entity itself, which each of these banks publishes separately.
    Settled by
    both Turkish registers publish a web address per bank: the BDDK register of licensed banks and the Banks Association of Türkiye member list. Each replacement was then read, and seven of the nine name the Turkish entity on the page itself, Burgan Bank A.Ş. and MUFG Bank Turkey A.Ş. among them.
    Detected
    19 September 2026
    Corrected
    19 September 2026

    The registers were not taken on trust for this column. Both give the superseded rabobank.com.tr for Hepsi Bank, and the BDDK column is behind for Ziraat, ING, Turkland, Albaraka, Emlak Katılım and Standard Chartered, where the address already published is the one the bank actually uses. Those six were left alone.

  78. Corrected

    The Development Bank of Mongolia was linked to a hostname that is not served

    the two names point at different machines and only one of them is served. A link is checked once when it is written, and a host that is retired afterwards leaves the old address on the page indefinitely.

    Affected
    one link, on the bank's page and in the API (MN) · /bank/development-bank-of-mongolia, /swift/dbommnub
    We showed
    The bank's official website was given as dbm.mn. That name resolves, but nothing listens on it: a connection to it times out.
    Correct
    www.dbm.mn, which resolves to a different address, answers, and titles itself Home page || Development Bank of Mongolia.
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the legal name Монгол Улсын Хөгжлийн банк against this BIC, and that is the copyright line the site at www.dbm.mn carries.
    Detected
    19 September 2026
    Corrected
    19 September 2026

    Found by asking the authorities rather than the site. Five other links this machine cannot reach turned out to be correct: GLEIF has all six institutions active, and Wikidata, keyed on the LEI GLEIF gives rather than on a name, returns the domain we already publish for four of them. Only Mongolia disagreed.

  79. Corrected

    ALTA banka's official website link warned the visitor

    a link is checked once for whether it loads. Nothing asked whether the certificate matches the name we point at, and a mismatch is invisible to a script that is not looking for it.

    Affected
    one link, on the bank's page and in the API (MK) · /bank/alta-banka-ad-bitola, /swift/stbbmk22
    We showed
    ALTA banka AD Bitola was linked to altabanka.mk. The host answers, but serves a certificate issued for *.altabanka.com.mk, so following the link from the bank's page raises a browser security warning.
    Correct
    www.altabanka.com.mk, the name on the bank's own certificate, which serves the site with a valid one.
    Settled by
    the certificate presented by the host we published names altabanka.com.mk, and the pages there name АЛТА банка АД Битола throughout.
    Detected
    19 September 2026
    Corrected
    19 September 2026

    Worth recording against the row rather than the link: GLEIF still calls this entity Стопанска банка А.Д. Битола, last updated September 2025, and the bank's own site still labels its home link that way. The bank renamed and the register has not caught up, so here our name is ahead of GLEIF rather than behind it. Nothing about the name changed.

  80. Corrected

    Two banks linked to a website that resolves nowhere

    a stored link is checked when it is written and then trusted. These two were verified once, and nothing since asked whether they still answer, so a bank moving to a new domain leaves the old address on our page indefinitely.

    Affected
    two of the 2,136 official website links we publish (TR, PK) · /bank/arap-turk-bankasi, /bank/united-bank-limited, /swift/atubtris, /swift/unilpkka
    We showed
    Arap Türk Bankası was linked to arabturkbank.com and United Bank Limited to ubldirect.com. Both are printed as the bank's official website on its page, and neither answers over http or https.
    Correct
    atbank.com.tr and ubldigital.com, the sites the two banks actually run.
    Settled by
    the old host for Arap Türk Bankası is a DNS alias for www.atbank.com.tr, which serves the bank under its A and T Bank brand and carries its copyright line, so the operator is demonstrably the same. United Bank Limited names itself in the body text of ubldigital.com.
    Detected
    19 September 2026
    Corrected
    19 September 2026

    Found while upgrading the last 91 links we still published over plain http. The other 89 hosts all answer over https, so those changed scheme only.

  81. Corrected

    Thirteen more banks were published under a SWIFT code no authority issues them

    a code nobody issued has no bank to contradict it, so it round-trips through our own tables perfectly and every internal check stays green. Four of these had also become the four letters we filed the bank under, and in Britain, Ireland and Qatar those four letters are exactly what an IBAN carries, so the same error ran in both directions: no IBAN could ever reach MUFG, NTHK, ANPM or QCBA, while real accounts carrying BOTK, CNOR, PSTS and QMAG resolved to nothing at all.

    Affected
    thirteen BICs across thirteen institutions (ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, QA) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    Cajamar Caja Rural as CCRIESMM, Banca Mediolanum as BFIVITMM and Banco BPM as BPMIITMM; Abanca as ABCAESMM, Banco de España as ESPBESBB and ING Bank's Spanish branch as INGDESM1; Banque Palatine as BPNDFRPP; MUFG Bank's London branch as MUFGGB2L and the Northern Trust Company as NTHKGB2L; An Post as ANPMIE21; Banca Generali as BLNMITR1 and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti as CDITITMM; Qatar Central Bank as QCBAQAQA. The first three reached the IBAN result card, so a real Spanish account on bank code 3058 and real Italian accounts on ABI 03062 and 05034 were each answered with a code their own bank does not hold.
    Correct
    the code each bank is registered under: CCRIES2A, MEDBITMM, BAPPIT22, CAGLESMM, ESPBESMM, INGDESMM, BSPFFRPP, BOTKGB2L, CNORGB22, PSTSIE21, BGENIT2T, CADPITRR and QMAGQAQA. The bank named on every page is the same bank as before. Only the code changes, and the thirteen old spellings now redirect to it.
    Settled by
    two independent authorities on each, agreeing on the surviving code and knowing nothing of the old one: GLEIF, which registers a BIC against the legal entity, and the EPC participant register, which names the institution and its address against the code it publishes. Wise's directory returns nothing for any of the thirteen. ING's Spanish branch and Qatar Central Bank have no EPC row to check against, so those two rest on GLEIF and Wise instead: GLEIF lists INGDESMM among ING Bank N.V.'s twenty-eight codes and QMAGQAQA against Qatar Central Bank, and Wise returns both by name.
    Detected
    19 September 2026
    Corrected
    19 September 2026

    These came out of the standing queue our BIC check keeps: a published code no authority places, sitting on a bank that already holds one they do. Reading it to the end emptied it. Correcting them left five directory rows describing a bank we already describe correctly elsewhere. Those, and four older duplicates of the same shape, were folded into the row an IBAN can actually reach on the same day; every retired address still answers.

  82. Corrected

    CCRIES2A named the wrong bank

    The page named a member of a cooperative network rather than the institution the BIC belongs to, and the question of which code the network settles under could not be answered while Cajamar also sat on a second code, CCRIESMM.

    Affected
    CCRIES2A (ES) · /swift/ccries2a
    We showed
    CAIXA RURAL ALTEA COOPERATIVA DE CREDIT VALENCIANA
    Correct
    CCRIES2A is Cajamar Caja Rural's own code. GLEIF registers it to Cajamar Caja Rural, Sociedad Cooperativa de Crédito in Almería, and the EPC participant register publishes CCRIES2AXXX against the same institution at the same address. CCRIES2A045 is the branch spelling Caixa Rural Altea uses inside the network.
    Settled by
    GLEIF and the EPC participant register both put CCRIES2A on Cajamar Caja Rural. Neither of them, nor Wise's directory, has any record of CCRIESMM, so there was never a second code to choose between.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    19 September 2026

    Left open for nine days on purpose, because one institution appearing to hold two codes is not a mislabel and writing a guess would have been the worse error. What settled it was asking the opposite question of every code we publish: CCRIESMM is issued by nobody, so Cajamar never held two.

  83. Corrected

    Nine banks were published under a SWIFT code no authority issues them

    every check we run asks whether the bank behind a code is described correctly. None asked whether the code exists, and a code nobody issued has no bank to contradict it. In each case the same institution already sat on a second row holding the BIC its register publishes, so the two halves of the site were handing out two different codes for one bank, and the invented one was ours.

    Affected
    nine BICs across seven institutions, and the ten directory rows carrying them (IS, DK, MD, CH, NO) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    Arion banki as ARIBISRE and Kvika banki as KVIAISRE, Sparekassen Kronjylland as KRONDKKK and Lunar Bank as LBDKDKKK, maib as AGRNMD22 and Moldindconbank as MOLDMD22, Valiant Bank as VABECHZZ, SpareBank 1 Østlandet as SPDSNO22 and Cultura Bank as CURANO22. Six of them reached the IBAN result card, so a real Icelandic, Danish or Moldovan account number was answered with a code its own bank does not hold.
    Correct
    the code each bank is registered under: ESJAISRE, MPBAISRE, KRONDK22, LUNADK22, AGRNMD2X, MOLDMD2X, VABECH22, SHEDNO22 and CULTNOK1. The bank named on every page is the same bank as before. Only the code changes, and the nine old spellings now redirect to it.
    Settled by
    two independent authorities on every one, agreeing on the surviving code and knowing nothing of the old: GLEIF, which registers a BIC against the legal entity, and the EPC participant register, which published the surviving row. Three were settled a third time by the bank itself, since Arion prints ESJAISRE, Kvika prints MPBAISRE and Sparekassen Kronjylland prints KRONDK22 on their own sites. Switzerland and Norway were settled a third time by their domestic routing registers, SIX publishing VABECH22 against the clearing numbers Valiant is listed under, and Bits publishing SHEDNO22 against all fifty-two identifiers SpareBank 1 Østlandet holds.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    SPDSNO22 is the third invented Norwegian code of its shape we have had to withdraw, after SPMSNO22 and SPNNNO22. Correcting these also revealed that three of the rows sit on routing numbers no register issues either, which the invented code had been hiding; those rows are duplicates of banks we already describe correctly, and consolidating them retires a published address, so that is recorded and left for a separate decision.

  84. Corrected

    Twenty-two banks were named without the letters their own registers spell them with

    the damage is in the EPC participant list itself, not in how we read it. The raw file publishes NORWAY,“orland Sparebank” and DENMARK,“Laegernes Bank”, and renders Norwegian og as the English and. We imported it faithfully and nothing re-read a name afterwards, because the check that compares our names to GLEIF scores them by how many words they share, and a name that differs only in which letters its words are spelled with shares all of them.

    Affected
    twenty-two bank names and three towns, across five countries (NO, DK, IE, CH, GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    Ørland Sparebank as “orland Sparebank” and Ørskog Sparebank as “orskog Sparebank”, both beginning in lower case because the letter that opened the name had been dropped outright. Sparebanken Møre read “SPAREBANKEN MORE”, Møns Bank read “A/S Mons Bank”, Lægernes Bank read “Laegernes Bank”, and Banque Pictet & Cie read “BANQUE PICTET AND CIE SA”. Seventeen more rows carried the same damage, and three towns with it: Ærøskøbing appeared as “roskobing”.
    Correct
    the spelling each bank's own regulator publishes: Ørland, Ørskog, Sparebanken Møre, SPAREBANK 1 NORDMØRE, Strømmen, Trøgstad, Trøndelag, JÆREN, Næringsbanken, Møns Bank, Frørup, Frøslev-Mollerup, Lægernes Bank, and the ampersand in Banque Pictet & Cie, Arbuthnot Latham & Co. and three Irish credit unions. Nothing but the spelling changes. The BIC, the bank code and the institution are the same in every case, and only one address moves with its name.
    Settled by
    two authorities that agree exactly on all twenty-two. Finanstilsynet's licensed register for the Norwegian names, Finansinspektionen and the Danish, Irish, Swiss and British entries' own GLEIF records for the rest, and GLEIF's registered legal address for the three towns.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    Found while building a check that asks each regulator whether an institution is still licensed. Fourteen Norwegian banks failed to match their own register, and the reason they failed was that our spelling of them was wrong.

  85. Corrected

    A Norwegian bank had a second page under a SWIFT code that does not exist

    the row was marked as coming from our own tables while no table contained it, so both the drift check and the register check looked straight past it. Nothing we run asks whether a BIC exists at all, only whether the bank behind one is described correctly, and a BIC nobody issued has no bank behind it to disagree with.

    Affected
    MORENOBB (NO) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    “Sparebanken Møre SWIFT Code: MORENOBB BIC” at /swift/morenobb, and a second bank page at /bank/sparebanken-more-more, both alongside the bank's real page. A visitor could have copied MORENOBB into a payment.
    Correct
    Sparebanken Møre's BIC is SPARNO22, and it has one page. MORENOBB is not a SWIFT code: GLEIF has no record of it, the SWIFT code directory answers 404 for it, no table in this repository contains it, and the bank code the row carried, 6310, is not in the Norwegian register either, where the bank holds 3900 to 3960.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which returns Sparebanken Møre for SPARNO22 and holds that as the sole BIC on the bank's LEI while returning nothing for MORENOBB; the SWIFT code directory, which serves SPARNO22 and answers 404 for MORENOBB; and the Norwegian routing register, which gives SPARNO22 for every one of the bank's codes.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    The old bank address now redirects to the bank's real page, and that page names the code it was once published under, with the record that settled it.

  86. Corrected

    A Swedish payment institution was shown as open a year after it went bankrupt

    a company that stops without merging leaves no trace in anything we run. Its name stays correct, its BIC stays correct and its code is not reassigned, so the GLEIF sweep, the register name pass and the routing audit are all silent. The EPC participant list we imported it from still carried it, because those files are months old. It surfaced only because filling in the country's websites meant opening its own site, which is now nothing but the notice.

    Affected
    FTCSSESS (SE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    Intergiro Intl AB (publ) as an active SEPA participant carrying a credit-transfer badge and an illustrative IBAN, on its own page and in the developer API.
    Correct
    The company stopped being a payment institution in 2025. Finansinspektionen revoked its licence on 18 June 2025 and it filed for bankruptcy at the Stockholm district court on 31 July 2025. No bank took the business on, so there is nowhere else to send a payment; anyone who believes the administrator holds their funds is directed by the company's own page to the administration.
    Settled by
    the company's own site, which states the bankruptcy filing of 31 July 2025 and the licence revocation of 18 June 2025; and Finansinspektionen's company register, which returns no result for the name while returning every other Swedish institution in this directory, so the silence is an answer rather than a broken search.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    The page now carries the wind-down notice and its sources, and no longer offers a SEPA badge or an illustrative IBAN. The bank code is not claimed to have stopped routing, because that is not something we have checked.

  87. Corrected

    A Swedish bank's address was an internal mail code in the wrong city

    the row came from the EPC participant list, whose entry is dated 2012 and carries what looks like the group's internal mail routing code rather than a postal address. Nothing re-reads an address once it is imported.

    Affected
    IBCASES1 (SE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the developer API
    We showed
    ICA Banken AB at “H00MBT/1285 Box 4021” in Västerås.
    Correct
    Box 4075, 169 04 Solna. Only the address changes; the BIC, the name and the institution are unaffected.
    Settled by
    the bank's own footer, which gives ICA Banken AB, Box 4075, 169 04 Solna, and GLEIF's legal address for the same LEI, which gives Box 4075, 169 04 Solna. The two agree exactly.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026
  88. Corrected

    A Hungarian bank was shown under the name its register entry carried in 2008

    the row came from the EPC participant list, whose entry for this bank is dated 28 January 2008 and still carries the name it had then. Nothing we run compares a Hungarian name against a register: the routing audit reads the Hungarian register for bank codes and BICs but is not wired to read its names, and the name sweep that does run scores a row against the register by how many words it shares, so KDB and Bank alone carried it past the threshold while the one word that differed was outvoted.

    Affected
    KODBHUHB (HU) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    KDB BANK (HUNGARY) LTD., as the name of the bank holding KODBHUHB, on its own page and in the developer API.
    Correct
    KDB Bank Europe Ltd., registered as KDB Bank Európa Zrt. The BIC, the address and the institution are unchanged; only the name is. Európa is not Hungary, so this was a stale name rather than another rendering of the same one.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, whose legal name for this LEI is KDB BANK EURÓPA ZRT.; the MNB SHT register, which carries code 135 as KDB Bank Európa Zrt.; and the bank's own legal notice, which names KDB Bank Európa Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság and signs its English customer notices KDB Bank Europe Ltd.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    The former address /bank/kdb-bank-hungary-ltd still resolves here, and the page records the old name.

  89. Corrected

    A Vienna branch's SWIFT code was published as a bank in Budapest

    the row came from the EPC participant list, which files the code under the Hungarian parent because that is the participant reachable through it. That is a statement about who can be paid at the code, which is a different question from whose code it is, and these pages answer the second one.

    Affected
    BKCHATWW (AT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    BANK OF CHINA (CEE) Limited in Budapest, Hungary, at József Nádor tér 7, as the holder of BKCHATWW.
    Correct
    Bank of China (Central and Eastern Europe) Limited Vienna Branch, in Vienna, at Schottenring 18. The Budapest company is real and is this branch's parent, but it holds a different BIC, BKCHHUHB, which this directory does not carry.
    Settled by
    the OeNB SEPA-Zahlungsverkehrsverzeichnis, which gives Austrian bank code 19540 to Bank of China (Central and Eastern Europe) Limited Vienna Branch in Wien on BKCHATWWXXX; the MNB SHT register, which gives the Budapest company BKCHHUHB at code 175; and the bank's own Austria section, which introduces the Vienna branch at Schottenring 18, 1010 Vienna and carries Hungary separately.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    The former address /bank/bank-of-china-cee-limited still resolves here. The SEPA scheme badges are unchanged, because those describe the code and remain true of it.

  90. Corrected

    A Macedonian bank was shown under the name it dropped in May

    the rename reached nothing we run. A bank that is renamed rather than merged keeps its BIC, so the BIC sweep resolves it and reads as agreement, and GLEIF still carries the old name on a registration that has lapsed, so the name sweep had nothing to compare against either. It surfaced only because the old domain, capitalbank.com.mk, was followed while filling in websites and landed on a site called mBank.

    Affected
    KAPBMK22 (MK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card, the developer API
    We showed
    Capital Bank AD Skopje, as the name of the bank holding KAPBMK22, on its own page and in the developer API.
    Correct
    M Banka AD Skopje, trading as mBank. The BIC, the bank code and the institution are unchanged; only the name is.
    Settled by
    the bank's own statute amendment, hosted on mbank.mk, recording its shareholders' meeting of 29 May 2026 and opening “the Statute of Kapital Banka AD Skopje (new name M Banka AD Skopje)”; its own cookie notice, which names the operator of the site as М банка АД Скопје; and the rebrand announced on the bank's own channels on 23 May 2026.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    The former address /bank/capital-bank-ad-skopje still resolves here, and the page records the old name. The English name carries the jurisdiction because mBank alone is ambiguous: Poland's mBank is a different bank, with Czech and Slovak branches of its own.

  91. Corrected

    Four Austrian bank codes named a cooperative that had just been absorbed

    the Austrian table is built from the routing register, and the merger completed in the same week it was read. The register had already moved all four codes and withdrawn the BIC.

    Affected
    RLBBAT2E010 (AT) · the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Raiffeisenbank Region Deutschkreutz-Horitschon eGen in Deutschkreutz, on BIC RLBBAT2E010, for bank codes 33010, 33031, 33048 and 33058.
    Correct
    Raiffeisenbank Burgenland Mitte eGen in Oberpullendorf, on BIC RLBBAT2E065. The two cooperatives merged in mid-September 2026, and the register no longer lists the absorbed bank or its BIC at all.
    Settled by
    the OeNB SEPA-Zahlungsverkehrsverzeichnis, which now gives all four codes to Raiffeisenbank Burgenland Mitte eGen under one company number, 124617k, and one LEI, 529900ZLDHV67QISV317, and no longer contains RLBBAT2E010 anywhere; and the bank's own merger page, which names both cooperatives, dates the merger to mid-September 2026 and tells the absorbed bank's customers that their Bankleitzahl and account number change.
    Detected
    18 September 2026
    Corrected
    18 September 2026

    Neither BIC has a directory page, so the wrong name was reached only by validating an IBAN. GLEIF still holds the absorbed cooperative as an active entity on its old BIC, which is the usual lag between a merger taking effect and an LEI being retired; the routing register is what settles which institution holds a bank code, and it is unambiguous here. Payments to the old account numbers are redirected during a transition period, so an IBAN carrying one of these codes still arrives, at the bank the card now names.

  92. Corrected

    An Estonian bank in liquidation was shown as an active bank

    the row came from the SEPA participant register, which lists a participant and does not say whether it is still trading, and nothing else we run could see it. GLEIF holds no record for this BIC at all, so every name and BIC sweep passed over it in silence, and no Estonian IBAN resolves to this bank, so the engine never had occasion to name it either. The only thing that says what happened is the bank's own page, and a page is read one bank at a time.

    Affected
    TABUEE22 (EE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the developer API
    We showed
    AS TBB pank as an active Estonian credit institution, with its SEPA scheme badges and no indication that anything had changed.
    Correct
    closed. Its credit institution licence ended on 14 April 2025, the company is in voluntary liquidation, and the money that was in customer accounts has been deposited with a Tallinn notary rather than held at the bank.
    Settled by
    the bank's own site, tbb.ee, which is now a single notice giving the date of the supervisory decision and the notary now holding the deposits, and whose copyright line reads “AS TBB pank (likvideerimisel)”; and the Estonian Business Register, which carries registry code 10237984 under this name with status L, in liquidation.
    Detected
    17 September 2026
    Corrected
    17 September 2026

    The bank code is left in place and the page is kept rather than removed, so that anyone arriving with an old record still finds out what happened. The page now states the closure and drops the SEPA badge, and the bank's own notice is linked from it, because that notice is where a former customer is told whom to contact about their money.

  93. Corrected

    A Romanian bank was published under a BIC that does not exist

    the row came from the SEPA participant register and its BIC had never been checked against the register that decides whether a BIC exists. Our GLEIF sweeps could not settle it either: they ask what a code resolves to, and a code that resolves to nothing reads as an unanswered question rather than an answer, which is the same blind spot that hides a bank whose entity has been retired.

    Affected
    BRMAROBU (RO) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the developer API
    We showed
    EXIM Banca Românească with BIC EXIMROBU, and a page of its own at that code.
    Correct
    BRMAROBU. The bank, its address and its website are unchanged; only the code was never real, and with it the four letters a Romanian IBAN carries for this bank.
    Settled by
    SWIFT's own BIC directory, the registration authority for ISO 9362, which returns no result for EXIMROBU and returns BRMAROBUXXX for EXIM BANCA ROMANEASCA S.A. in Bucharest; GLEIF, which records that entity under LEI 635400F6HLXKXNJJX605 with BRMAROBUXXX and no EXIMROBU; and the bank's own general-information page, which prints “SWIFT/BIC: BRMAROBU”.
    Detected
    16 September 2026
    Corrected
    17 September 2026

    The old address /swift/eximrobu now redirects to the real code, and the bank's page names the code it was published under before, so anyone holding the old one still lands here. The control search is what makes this conclusive: BRMAROBU returning the bank is why EXIMROBU returning nothing is a fact about the code rather than about the search.

  94. Corrected

    Three banks were published with a bank code no IBAN can contain

    the codes were invented before the curated tables were cleaned up, and the clean-up did not reach the directory. The rule was being enforced, but only for Great Britain and Ireland and only on the tables, so Qatar and Kuwait were never asked and the British row survived in the copy nothing checked.

    Affected
    three directory rows, in Great Britain, Qatar and Kuwait (GB, QA, KW) · the developer API
    We showed
    VIRG for Virgin Money, MARY for Al Rayan Bank and BBKU for Burgan Bank, handed out by the developer API as each bank's bank_code.
    Correct
    CLYD, MAFR and BRGN. In all three countries the IBAN's bank field is the first four characters of the institution's BIC, and each of these rows already held the right BIC, so none of the codes we published could appear in a real IBAN. BBKU is Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait's.
    Settled by
    the IBAN structure each country registers with SWIFT, which fixes the bank field at four letters; and GLEIF for each BIC the code is derived from: CLYDGB21 is Clydesdale Bank plc, MAFRQAQA is AlRayan Bank Q.P.S.C, BRGNKWKW is Burgan Bank K.P.S.C.
    Detected
    17 September 2026
    Corrected
    17 September 2026

    No page changed: the BIC, name and address on each bank's page were right, and the bank code is not shown there. The rule now applies to every country whose bank field is four letters, on the tables and on the directory both. Four more rows fail it and cannot be fixed the same way, because each shares its BIC with a correctly coded row; those are duplicates to fold and the gate reports them every run.

  95. Corrected

    Two Austrian savings banks became one, and both pages still described the pair

    the rows came from the SEPA participant register, which still carried the two companies. The Austrian routing register had already moved both codes under one institution, one company number and one LEI, but nothing compared the two: the register check reads the bank code against the BIC and both codes kept the BIC they always had, and the name check scores similarity, so “Sparkasse Scheibbs AG” against “Sparkasse Amstetten Scheibbs AG” scored a full match on every word it holds.

    Affected
    SPSBAT21 (AT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Sparkasse Scheibbs AG, an independent savings bank in Scheibbs, and separately Sparkasse der Stadt Amstetten AG. Both were shown as active SEPA participants with their own addresses.
    Correct
    One institution, Sparkasse Amstetten Scheibbs AG, at Hauptplatz 31, 3300 Amstetten, holding both bank codes. Neither code is withdrawn and neither BIC is: a payment to either still arrives, which is why the rows were relabelled rather than closed.
    Settled by
    the OeNB SEPA-Zahlungsverkehrsverzeichnis, which gives codes 20202 and 20257 the same institution, the same company number 317211m and the same LEI 529900XA7RHLU8ECBK28; GLEIF, which holds that entity active under the merged name with our old name recorded as a previous one, and the Sparkasse Scheibbs AG entity inactive and retired; and the bank's own site, which titles itself Sparkasse Amstetten Scheibbs AG and serves both of its paths from one page.
    Detected
    17 September 2026
    Corrected
    17 September 2026

    Both codes now lead to one page, as they describe one bank. The former addresses /bank/sparkasse-scheibbs-ag and /bank/sparkasse-der-stadt-amstetten-ag still resolve to it, and each BIC keeps its own page. The Scheibbs address the page used to show was the absorbed company's own head office.

  96. Corrected

    Seven Austrian bank codes named cooperatives that had been absorbed

    the Austrian table is built from the routing register and had not been rebuilt since these mergers landed. Three of the seven were invisible to the register check as well, because it compared only the first eight characters of a BIC and a cooperative keeps its network prefix: RZOOAT2L129 and RZOOAT2L680 are two different banks that agree on all eight.

    Affected
    seven bank codes across five cooperative banks (AT) · the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Raiffeisenkasse Dobersberg-Waldkirchen, Raiffeisenkasse Ernstbrunn, Raiffeisenbank Hollabrunn, Raiffeisenbank Kreuzenstein, Raiffeisenbank Gunskirchen and Raiffeisenbank Ehrwald-Lermoos-Biberwier, each with a BIC of its own.
    Correct
    Raiffeisenbank im Thayatal, Raiffeisenbank Laa-Ernstbrunn, Raiffeisenbank Stockerau-Hollabrunn, Raiffeisenbank Korneuburg-Kreuzenstein, Raiffeisenbank Wels and Raiffeisenbank Tirol Mitte West, on the absorbing bank's BIC. Every one of the six BICs we were showing has been withdrawn from the register.
    Settled by
    the OeNB SEPA-Zahlungsverkehrsverzeichnis, which assigns each of these codes to the absorbing bank and no longer lists the six withdrawn BICs at all; and GLEIF, which holds every absorbing entity active on the BIC the register gives it.
    Detected
    17 September 2026
    Corrected
    17 September 2026

    None of these banks had a directory page, so the wrong names were reached only by validating an IBAN. The register check now compares the branch code too, but only when both sides state one.

  97. Corrected

    A Munich bank code resolved to the wrong bank entirely

    our curated German entry had Münchner Bank on the wrong bank code, and the table built from the Bundesbank file, which had it right, is overridden wherever a curated entry exists. An earlier pass looked at this pair, found that GLEIF gives GENODEF1M04 to Hausbank München, and changed the BIC to match the name instead of the code to match the register. The register check could not see it either: GENODEF1M01 and GENODEF1M04 share all eight characters it was comparing.

    Affected
    GENODEF1M04 (DE) · the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Münchner Bank eG, with BIC GENODEF1M01, an address on Richard-Strauss-Straße and a link to muenchner-bank.de, for any German IBAN on bank code 70090100.
    Correct
    Hausbank München, BIC GENODEF1M04. Münchner Bank eG holds 70190000, which is where its row now sits; its own page, BIC and address were correct all along and are unchanged.
    Settled by
    the Deutsche Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen file, which gives 70090100 to Hausbank München with BIC GENODEF1M04 and 70190000 to Münchner Bank with GENODEF1M01; and GLEIF, which holds GENODEF1M01 for Münchner Bank eG and GENODEF1M04 for Hausbank München eG.
    Detected
    17 September 2026
    Corrected
    17 September 2026

    Hausbank München has no directory page of its own; it is one of the banks the Bundesbank file supplies, and those resolve a name without claiming a page. No published address changed, so nothing needs redirecting.

  98. Corrected

    A French subsidiary carried a retired name and the address of a building it had left

    the row came from the SEPA participant register and had never been checked against a company register. The stored postal code was a Paris one that does not belong to the stored street, which is in La Défense, so the two halves of the address had already contradicted each other.

    Affected
    PROCFRPP (FR) · /bank/procapital, /swift/procfrpp
    We showed
    PROCAPITAL at Tour Ariane, Place de la Pyramide, Paris 75012
    Correct
    Arkéa Procapital Services, at Tour Trinity, 1B Place de la Défense, 92400 Courbevoie. ProCapital remains the company's trading name and is still what the page displays, so only the legal name and the address changed.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which records PROCAPITAL as a previous legal name of Arkéa Procapital Services, and the French company register at recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr under SIREN 428677900, which gives the same legal name and the same registered office, opened on 3 June 2024.
    Detected
    16 September 2026
    Corrected
    16 September 2026

    No automated check could have raised this. GLEIF holds no BIC for the company, so the sweep that compares our names against the register never saw it; it surfaced only because the row was opened by hand while looking for the company's website.

  99. Corrected

    A branch that had stopped taking payments was shown as open for them

    the same blind spot as the other wind-downs on this page. A branch that stops trading without merging keeps its name, its BIC and a code that still resolves, so nothing that watches for renames or wrong codes has a question it can fail, and the register that does know files this BIC against the Swedish parent, which is open. It surfaced from a routing register rather than a name: Finanssiala’s list of Finnish institution codes no longer carries code 31.

    Affected
    HANDFIHH (FI) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Handelsbanken's Finnish branch as an active SEPA participant, taking credit transfers
    Correct
    closed. The group decided in October 2021 to leave the Finnish market and the branch has wound down: personal account and payment services ended on 31 March 2025 and company ones on 30 June 2025. Only existing contracts such as loans continue.
    Settled by
    The branch’s own page on leaving the Finnish market, which gives both end dates and states that parts of the business were sold to S-Pankki and Henki-Fennia in December 2024 and to Oma Säästöpankki in September 2024. Finanssiala’s list of Finnish institution codes and BICs, dated 16 March 2026, which no longer carries the code.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    Absence from a register is a weak signal on its own, so it was the bank’s own page that settled this. Swedbank’s Finnish branch, whose code is missing from the same list, was checked the same way and is open: its site offers transaction services to corporate clients and says nothing about winding down, so it was left alone. The code stays in place so an older Finnish IBAN still resolves to a name.

  100. Corrected

    A Greek bank was still under the cooperative name it left behind

    a gap in the sweep that exists to catch exactly this. It asks GLEIF what a BIC is called now, and GLEIF files this bank under STIOGR21XXX, with the digit 1 where the bank and the SEPA register both print the letter I. The two codes are hard to tell apart on a screen and impossible to tell apart for a lookup, so the sweep asked about a code nobody holds, got nothing back, and reported no question to answer. The name sat unchallenged until the bank was reached for a different reason, to find its website.

    Affected
    STIOGR2I (GR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Cooperative Bank of Epirus L.T.D., the name it traded under as a cooperative
    Correct
    Bank of Epirus, or Τράπεζα Ηπείρου Ανώνυμη Τραπεζική Εταιρεία in Greek. The cooperative converted to a société anonyme and renamed itself.
    Settled by
    GLEIF holds our stored name as this entity’s previous legal name against LEI 213800AXQUILVAQS3374, at the same Ioannina address the SEPA register gives, which is the register itself recording the rename. The bank’s own site calls itself Τράπεζα Ηπείρου in Greek and Bank of Epirus in English.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The SWIFT code we publish is the right one and did not change. The bank prints it itself: its IBAN page reads SWIFT BIC STIOGR2I with addressee STIOGR2IXXX, which agrees with the SEPA register against GLEIF. The old address redirects to the new one.

  101. Corrected

    A firm in compulsory liquidation was shown as an open bank

    the same blind spot as the Lithuanian wind-down below. A company that stops trading without merging keeps its name, its BIC and a bank code that still resolves, so nothing that watches for renames or wrong codes has a question it can fail, and GLEIF holds no record against this BIC at all. Anyone about to pay into one of its IBANs was being told the firm was operating normally. It surfaced sideways: a search for the firm’s website returned its regulator’s liquidation notice instead.

    Affected
    GUAVGB22 (GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Guavapay Limited as an active SEPA participant, taking credit transfers
    Correct
    closed. It entered compulsory liquidation on 21 January 2026 and liquidators are handling customer claims.
    Settled by
    The Financial Conduct Authority, which states that Guavapay Limited entered compulsory liquidation on 21 January 2026, that liquidators were appointed on 2 February 2026, and that the firm had agreed a voluntary requirement restricting its activities in September 2025. UK Companies House gives company 10601900 the status Liquidation, and the liquidator address in the FCA notice is the registered office Companies House now holds, which is what ties the two records to the same company.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The other thirteen British rows with no website were checked the same way at Companies House and are all active, so this was one firm rather than a class.

  102. Corrected

    Five pages answered for a SWIFT code their bank does not hold

    the SEPA register publishes these participants with a branch code, and the import kept only the first eight characters of it. Those eight are the head office of the group the participant belongs to, so each page ended up answering for a code held by someone else: eighteen Spanish cooperatives share CCRIES2A, twelve Crédit Mutuel and CIC banks share CMCIFRP1, and thirty-nine South Tyrolean Raiffeisen banks share RZSBIT21. Nothing we run could see it, because both the code and the bank were real and the page looked ordinary; it surfaced only when a name that GLEIF answered with the wrong bank was traced back to the register line it came from.

    Affected
    five rows across Spain, France and Italy (ES) · /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    CCRIES2A as Caixa Rural Altea, CMBRFR2B as Arkéa Banque Entreprises, CMCIFRP1 as Banque CIC Est, RZSBIT21 as Cassa Raiffeisen Bassa Atesina, and AGRIFRP1 as CA Consumer Finance
    Correct
    each of those banks under the eleven-character code the register publishes for it: CCRIES2A045, CMBRFR2BCME, CMCIFRP1SNV, RZSBIT21317 and AGRIFRP1ACF. CCRIES2A is Cajamar Caja Rural and CMBRFR2B is Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, which now hold those pages; the other three name a network rather than a bank and no longer resolve.
    Settled by
    The EPC register of SEPA scheme participants, which publishes the full code for each participant and, for two of the five prefixes, names the bank that holds the head office: CAJAMAR CAJA RURAL S.C.C. and CREDIT MUTUEL ARKEA. For the French pair, ACPR REGAFI licenses Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and Arkéa Banque Entreprises et Institutionnels separately, at cib 15589 and 18829, and GLEIF gives the branch code to the second of them.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    No redirect was left behind for the three that stop resolving. Sending CMCIFRP1 to Banque CIC Est would restate the claim being removed, so returning nothing is the honest answer for a code that names a network. The bank pages themselves were not affected: their addresses are built from the name, which did not change.

  103. Corrected

    Germany's ING was under the name of a retired company, and its real name was labelled the old one

    a rename had been recorded in the wrong direction. ING Deutschland GmbH is an entity GLEIF holds as inactive and retired, and ING-DiBa AG, the name the bank actually trades and files under, was written into the former-name field. So the page not only named the wrong company, it told the reader the right name was out of date.

    Affected
    INGDDEFF (DE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the result card for any German IBAN on BLZ 50010517
    We showed
    ING Deutschland GmbH, with a “Formerly known as” line reading ING-DiBa AG
    Correct
    ING-DiBa AG, with no former name
    Settled by
    The bank's own Impressum, which German law requires it to publish, names ING-DiBa AG and prints BIC INGDDEFFXXX and BLZ 500 105 17 beside it, both of which are the ones on this row. The Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen file carries ING-DiBa at the same code, and GLEIF holds ING DEUTSCHLAND GMBH as inactive and retired while giving this BIC to ING-DiBa AG.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026
  104. Corrected

    Two banks were under names they had changed, one of them while our own engine had the new one

    both names came from the EPC participant list, which records who takes part in a scheme rather than what each participant is called today, and neither rename is recorded in GLEIF as a former name, so the check that reads GLEIF had nothing to compare. The Norwegian one is the sharper case: our own copy of the Bits register already carried Bien Sparebank ASA, so a Norwegian IBAN resolved to the new name while the bank's own page still showed the old one.

    Affected
    two rows, one in France and one in Norway (FR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    La Banque Postale Credit Entreprises, and Sparebanken Bien
    Correct
    La Banque Postale Leasing & Factoring, and Bien Sparebank ASA
    Settled by
    For La Banque Postale: ACPR REGAFI, the French register of authorised institutions, which carries cib 16478 and LEI 96950089H0H5QFIK0D89 under La Banque Postale Leasing & Factoring, and GLEIF, which returns that same LEI for this BIC. For Bien Sparebank: the Bits IBAN-BIC table, which is the Norwegian authority on which BIC stands behind a Norwegian IBAN, and GLEIF, which holds the same legal name.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026
  105. Corrected

    Two British companies were under names Companies House does not hold

    the same source and the same mistake about what it is for. Both names came from the EPC participant list, which is not a register of company names, and neither name is one the statutory register holds. The second is a single letter: the company is Payments, plural.

    Affected
    two rows in the United Kingdom (GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Arab Banking Corporation International Bank plc, and myPOS Payment Limited
    Correct
    ABC International Bank plc, and myPOS Payments Ltd
    Settled by
    UK Companies House, which holds company 02564490 as active under ABC International Bank plc at 1-5 Moorgate, the address the EPC list itself gives for that BIC, and company 10630670 as myPOS Payments Ltd with myPOS Europe Ltd as its previous name. GLEIF agrees on both, and holds no entity under either of the names we were showing. The previous myPOS name is now recorded on its page, because the register states it.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026
  106. Corrected

    Two Dutch rows named a sister company instead of the one that holds the code

    in a group whose companies share a brand, naming the wrong one is easy to do and hard to see. Citi's Dutch business is a branch of its Irish bank rather than of the American one, and Wise serves the European Economic Area through a Belgian company, whose BIC this row already carried while the name read the British company. Every other EU Citi branch in our directory was already named correctly, which is what made this one visible.

    Affected
    two rows in the Netherlands (NL) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the result card for Dutch IBANs on CITI and TRWI
    We showed
    Citibank N.A. Amsterdam Branch, and Wise Payments Ltd
    Correct
    Citibank Europe plc, Netherlands Branch, and Wise Europe SA/NV
    Settled by
    For Citi: Citigroup's own country page, which gives Citibank Europe plc, Netherlands Branch at Schiphol Boulevard, the city already on the row, and GLEIF, which ties this BIC to Citibank Europe plc. For Wise: the EPC register, which lists this BIC under WISE EUROPE SA/NV in Brussels and gives Wise Payments Ltd a separate BIC of its own, and GLEIF, which places the holder in Ixelles.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026
  107. Corrected

    Two institutions were under names they had changed, one of them last year

    both sat in the same hole as the two Italian corrections below. Every check we run that could have caught a rename asks GLEIF by BIC, and GLEIF carries no BIC on either record, so neither company was ever compared with anything. Asking GLEIF by name instead is what found them.

    Affected
    two rows, one in the United Kingdom and one in Luxembourg (GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    AltPay Ltd, and FundBank (Europe) S.A.
    Correct
    Finsei Ltd, and IRACE Digital Bank (Europe) S.A.
    Settled by
    For Finsei: Companies House, which holds company 11347482 as active under that name and lists ALTPAY LTD as a previous name used until 11 March 2025; GLEIF, which records the same previous legal name; and the company’s own site, which prints that company number and the office address we already held. For IRACE: GLEIF, which carries FundBank (Europe) S.A. among the entity’s other names, and the bank’s own site, which states that IRACE is the successor to FundBank and is regulated by the CSSF in Luxembourg.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    Both old addresses still resolve. The link we published for AltPay pointed at a site that names the brand and no company at all; it now points at the one that identifies the entity.

  108. Corrected

    A bank bought by another in 2025 was still shown as open

    the same blind spot again, and the third bank it hid. Nothing that asks GLEIF by BIC could see this row.

    Affected
    PSBSDK21 (DK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    PenSam Bank A/S, an active bank, linked to pensam.dk
    Correct
    PenSam Bank A/S (merged into AL Sydbank)
    Settled by
    Arbejdernes Landsbank’s own press release announcing in May 2025 that it was buying PenSam Bank; and GLEIF, which has the bank renamed AL-PS Bank A/S and then inactive with its registration retired, naming Arbejdernes Landsbank as successor. That entity is in turn now AL Sydbank A/S, which this directory already carries as active, so the name points at where the business ended up.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The website was cleared: pensam.dk belongs to the pension company that sold the bank, not to the bank. The bank code is left in place, because whether it still carries payments is a question only a Danish routing register could answer.

  109. Corrected

    A bank absorbed into another was still shown as open, with a website of its own

    the same blind spot that hid the rename above, in its more serious form. Both the sweep that watches names and the one that watches status ask GLEIF by BIC, and GLEIF carries no BIC on this entity’s record, so it was never looked at by either. Asking GLEIF by name instead is what found it.

    Affected
    POSOIT22 (IT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], /
    We showed
    Banca Popolare di Sondrio, an active private bank, linked to its own site
    Correct
    Banca Popolare di Sondrio (merged into BPER Banca)
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which has the entity inactive with its registration retired on 23 April 2026 and names BPER Banca S.p.A. as its successor; and the bank’s own site, popso.it, which is now a page reading “Banca Popolare di Sondrio diventa BPER” and forwards to bper.it.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The official-website link was cleared rather than kept: the page it pointed at forwards to the acquirer, so a link labelled as this bank’s own would land the reader on a different bank. The bank code is left in place, because whether it still carries payments is a question only an Italian routing register could answer and no free one publishes it.

  110. Corrected

    A bank that had been renamed was still under its old name

    nothing we run could see it. The sweep that watches for renames asks GLEIF by BIC, and GLEIF carries no BIC on this entity’s record, so the company holding this one was never compared with anything. The row itself came from the EPC register and had not been asked since.

    Affected
    PDSCIT31 (IT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    IGEA DIGITAL BANCA S.P.A.
    Correct
    Banca Italiana per l’Ambiente e per l’Energia S.p.A.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which holds the entity as BANCA ITALIANA PER L’AMBIENTE E PER L’ENERGIA S.P.A. of Rome, active, and carries IGEA DIGITAL BANK S.P.A. among its other names, which is the register itself recording the rename; and the bank’s own site, which titles itself BIAE and prints this BIC in its footer.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The old address, /bank/igea-digital-banca-spa, still resolves. No other field was affected: the BIC, the address and the payment-scheme flags were right.

  111. Corrected

    Societe Generale's Cypriot bank was under the name it used to trade as

    the row came from the EPC register and nothing had asked the Cypriot register since. The sweep that watches names had not reached Cyprus, which is a country we had two websites for out of twenty-eight rows.

    Affected
    SOGECY2N (CY) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Societe Generale Cyprus Limited
    Correct
    Societe Generale Bank - Cyprus Limited
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which holds the legal name as SOCIETE GENERALE BANK - CYPRUS LIMITED against registration ΗΕ 31003 with the Cypriot Registrar of Companies and carries the old name among its other names; and the bank's own legal notice, which opens “Societe Generale Bank - Cyprus Limited website is subject to the terms and conditions set out below”.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The old name is kept as a former name, so anyone who meets it still lands here. The address is unchanged.

  112. Corrected

    LuxPay was shown as an active SEPA participant while it was winding down

    the row came from the EPC register and nothing since had asked whether the institution was still operating. A company that stops trading without merging leaves no trace in the checks that watch for renames and wrong codes, because its name and its BIC are both still correct.

    Affected
    LIPYLT22 (LT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    UAB Lux International Payment System, active, taking SEPA credit transfers and registered for Verification of Payee
    Correct
    not trading: the company provides no payment services and is carrying out a wind-down plan
    Settled by
    the company's own site, which is now the whole of the notice: the Bank of Lithuania decided on 31 July 2026 that it must not serve new or existing clients until its inspection concludes and in any case no later than 31 January 2027, it had already stopped ordinary payment services before that decision, and it is returning customer balances under its wind-down plan.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The restriction is temporary and the notice on the page says so. Leaving the row active would have told someone about to pay into one of these IBANs that the bank was operating normally.

  113. Corrected

    Paynetics was given a legal form it does not have

    the row came from the EPC register, which is where the wording we published came from. Nothing compared it against the authority that licenses the company.

    Affected
    PATCBGSF (BG) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Paynetics Ltd, in the page title, the heading and the meta description
    Correct
    Paynetics AD, a Bulgarian joint-stock company
    Settled by
    the Bulgarian National Bank's register of electronic money institutions, which lists the company with the official transliteration “Paynetics” AD and UIC 131574695; and the company's own site, which says the provider is Paynetics AD, licensed and supervised by the Bulgarian National Bank, and prints the same UIC. “Paynetics Ltd” appears nowhere on it.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The address is unchanged; the institution behind it has not changed.

  114. Corrected

    BBVA's Portuguese page named a company that no longer exists

    the row came from the EPC register and kept the name of the Portuguese company that was absorbed into its parent. Our own table built from Banco de Portugal's Lista IBAN had the branch wording all along, but nothing compares the two: the drift gate joins a directory row to a table entry on the bank code or the BIC, and an EPC row carries the BIC's first four characters where the code goes while a register entry carries no BIC at all.

    Affected
    BBVAPTPL (PT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Portugal), S.A., an independent Portuguese bank
    Correct
    Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., Sucursal em Portugal, a branch of the Spanish bank, on Portuguese bank code 0019
    Settled by
    the bank's own footer, which reads “Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. - Sucursal em Portugal, registado junto do Banco de Portugal com o n.º 19”; GLEIF, which maps this BIC to the Spanish parent in Bilbao and holds the Portuguese company separately as LEI 549300QD1160SR6LNZ76, inactive and retired; and Banco de Portugal's Lista IBAN, which gives code 0019 to the branch.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The address is unchanged. The company's own name is kept on the page as a former name, so anyone who meets it in an older record still lands here.

  115. Corrected

    EuroBic's page carried its successor inside its own name

    the successor was written into the displayed name, so it reached the page title and the meta description of every page that named this bank. That is what the former-names column exists to stop, and the gate that keeps it out looks for the words formerly and ex-, neither of which this one used.

    Affected
    BPNPPTPL (PT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Banco BIC Português SA (EuroBic, merged into Abanca)
    Correct
    Banco BIC Português, S.A., trading as EuroBic, with the successor carried by the merger notice
    Settled by
    Abanca's own announcements that it completed the purchase and finished the integration, which the merger notice on the page already cited.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The status is unchanged. GLEIF holds the legal person as renamed and active, but whether payments still reach Portuguese bank code 0079 is a question only the Lista IBAN answers, and it could not be read.

  116. Corrected

    Berliner Sparkasse was recorded under a legal name it no longer carries

    the curated row carried one name in both fields, so a change to the legal entity had nothing to change. The gate that compares our names against the Bundesbank register did not fire either: the register prints BSK 1818 - Berliner Sparkasse, which contains our name, and containment reads as benign.

    Affected
    BELADEBE (DE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Berliner Sparkasse as both the legal and the trading name
    Correct
    the legal entity is BSK 1818 AG; Berliner Sparkasse is the brand it trades under, and that brand is unchanged
    Settled by
    the bank's own imprint under section 5 DDG, which names BSK 1818 AG at Alexanderplatz 2 and publishes this BIC; GLEIF's record, which holds BSK 1818 AG as the legal name with Landesbank Berlin AG as the former one; and the Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen file for BLZ 10050000.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The address did not change, because the displayed name did not change.

  117. Corrected

    Nine Dutch banks were shown under a BIC whose last two characters had been guessed

    a BIC ends in two characters that identify the location, and ours had been filled in as NL2A rather than read from anywhere. Four of the nine also sat under a four-character identifier the Dutch payments association assigns to nobody, so they could not have appeared in a real Dutch IBAN at all. Our own consistency check could not see it, because the identifier is taken from the first four characters of the BIC and both halves had been invented to match.

    Affected
    nine banks (NL) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    ABCKNL2A, BNGANL2A, BOCNNL2A, CHASNL2A, DEUTNL2N, DHBNNL2A, BOTKNL2A, GSCONL2A and NICANL2H
    Correct
    ABNCNL2A, BNGHNL2G, BKCHNL2R, CHASNL2X, DEUTNL2A, DHBNNL2R, BOTKNL2X, GOLDNL2A and DNIBNL2G
    Settled by
    Betaalvereniging Nederland's BIC-lijst-NL, which assigns the identifier in positions 5 to 8 of every Dutch IBAN and publishes the BIC each one belongs to, with each replacement then confirmed in a directory independent of it: GLEIF, Wise or bank.codes.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The same pass found the larger fault behind them: of the 95 identifiers the association publishes, we held 25. Seventy real Dutch bank codes resolved to nothing, so an IBAN at NIBC, BNG Bank, Aegon, Qonto or Revolut was told its bank was unknown while a fictional one resolved. All 95 now resolve. Every former address still redirects.

  118. Corrected

    Two Dutch pages published a BIC that only this site asserted

    the codes were never read from a register. They are in no Dutch register, in GLEIF, in Wise or in any independent directory, and a search for either returns this site and nothing else, which means the only thing asserting them was us.

    Affected
    two banks (NL) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    SMBCNL2A for SMBC Amsterdam and NTHKNL2H for Northern Trust Amsterdam
    Correct
    no BIC we can source, so both records are withdrawn and the addresses return 404
    Settled by
    Betaalvereniging Nederland's BIC-lijst-NL, GLEIF, Wise and a search for each code, which returned only our own pages.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    A third, UBSWNL2A, was about to be withdrawn with them and was not: seven independent directories carry it, so GLEIF and Wise not holding it is their gap rather than our invention. The difference between the two outcomes was checking who else says it, which matters because a search that finds our own page proves nothing.

  119. Corrected

    Four Dutch banks were shown under the wrong legal person

    the first two are Dutch companies rather than branches of their Japanese parents, and calling them branches attributes their business to a different legal person. The third is a branch, but of J.P. Morgan SE, the group's European company, not of the American bank. The fourth had kept a former name.

    Affected
    four banks (NL) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “Mizuho Bank Amsterdam Branch”, “MUFG Bank Amsterdam Branch”, “JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Amsterdam Branch” and “Demir-Halk Bank NV”
    Correct
    Mizuho Bank Europe N.V., MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V., J.P. Morgan SE Amsterdam Branch and DHB Bank N.V.
    Settled by
    GLEIF and De Nederlandsche Bank's register, which give Mizuho Bank Europe N.V. under the same chamber of commerce number; GLEIF for MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. and for DHB Bank N.V., which it lists in Rotterdam under this exact BIC; and Wise and bank.codes, which both give J.P. Morgan SE Amsterdam Branch.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    DHB Bank was also shown in Amsterdam; GLEIF and bank.codes both place it in Rotterdam. All former addresses still redirect.

  120. Corrected

    A credit union was shown under the name it held before a 2025 merger

    Tallaght and District Credit Union and Firhouse Credit Union completed a transfer of engagements in May 2025 and the combined credit union took a new registered name. Nothing we run could see it: the sweep that watches names reads GLEIF, and GLEIF still holds the old name with no rename recorded against it.

    Affected
    TDCOIE21 (IE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “TALLAGHT AND DISTRICT CREDIT UNION LIMITED”
    Correct
    Tallaght and Firhouse Credit Union Limited
    Settled by
    the Central Bank of Ireland, which gives 161CU as Tallaght and Firhouse Credit Union Limited in both its downloadable register and its live firm profile, and records no trading name; and the credit union itself, whose domain is tfcu.ie, whose login page is titled Tallaght & Firhouse Credit Union, and whose About Us page describes the transfer.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    This row was not in any backlog. It already had a website and a plausible name, so the only thing that could surface it was comparing every Irish name against the register rather than only the rows missing something. The credit union’s own homepage is still branded Tallaght & District, so both names are in use by the credit union itself; the registered one is what we publish. The former address still redirects.

  121. Corrected

    An Irish credit union was shown under the name it dropped in 2025

    the credit union was renamed and nothing we run asked the question that would have caught it. The sweep that watches names reads GLEIF, and GLEIF does hold the old name as a former one, but it had never been pointed at this row: an Irish credit union is registered with the Central Bank of Ireland rather than a company register, and until this pass we had never read that register at all.

    Affected
    JACIIE21 (IE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “ST JARLATHS CREDIT UNION LIMITED”
    Correct
    West Midlands Credit Union Limited
    Settled by
    the Central Bank of Ireland’s Register of Credit Unions, which holds 61CU under the new name; GLEIF, which records our name as this entity’s previous legal name with a change completed on 8 September 2025 and validates it against the same Irish register as 61CU; and the credit union’s own site, which publishes “Reg No. 61CU”.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    The new name reads like a mistake, because West Midlands is a county in England and this credit union is in Tuam, Co. Galway. The register settles it: it also holds North Midlands Credit Union and North West Credit Union. These are Irish regions, and the name is the credit union’s own. The former address still redirects.

  122. Corrected

    A credit union that had transferred its business was still shown as operating

    nothing had read the Irish register. A credit union that transfers its business stays on that register until de-registration completes, so the signal we could have acted on is the moment it drops off, and we were not watching.

    Affected
    ROCIIE21 (IE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Rowlagh Credit Union Limited, as an active credit union with its own SEPA participation
    Correct
    Rowlagh transferred its assets and liabilities to Community Credit Union on 9 April 2025 and is marked as merged
    Settled by
    Community Credit Union’s own announcement to Rowlagh’s members, dated 9 April 2025; the Central Bank of Ireland’s Register of Credit Unions, which no longer lists it; and Rowlagh’s own domain, which now serves that announcement.
    Detected
    15 September 2026
    Corrected
    15 September 2026

    Absence from a register is weak evidence on its own, and it is not what settled this. The register’s own preamble is: a credit union that has transferred stays listed until the de-registration process completes. That makes dropping off the end of the process rather than a gap in the data, and the successor states the transfer in its own words.

  123. Corrected

    Quilvest Banque Privée was shown as an active SEPA participant

    the row was built from the EPC register's 2012 entry and nothing since had asked whether the entity still existed. The sweep that watches names asks GLEIF by BIC, and GLEIF holds no BIC against this entity at all.

    Affected
    SIFBFRP1 (FR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    an active bank at 243 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, with SEPA credit transfer participation
    Correct
    closed; the entity was last named La Banque Privée Saint Germain and is retired
    Settled by
    GLEIF's record for LEI 969500RJVJN89YW26S52, which holds the entity at our stored address under its later name with Quilvest Banque Privée as the former name, INACTIVE and RETIRED with no successor; and the ACPR's REGAFI register, which lists no licence for it.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The old address still redirects.

  124. Corrected

    HSBC Continental Europe was shown with another bank's name attached

    the annotation was added when HSBC sold its French retail network under the CCF name, and read the buyer's brand as a trading name of the seller. The ACPR's register keeps them apart: 30056 belongs to HSBC Continental Europe, SIREN 775670284, and 18079 to CCF, SIREN 315769257.

    Affected
    CCFRFRPP (FR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    HSBC Continental Europe (CCF), on French bank code 30056
    Correct
    HSBC Continental Europe; CCF is a separate company on code 18079
    Settled by
    the ACPR's REGAFI register, which publishes the Code Interbancaire against each licensed entity with its SIREN.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The same BIC also sat on a second directory page keyed on the BIC itself; the two carried identical details, so the duplicate was folded and its address still redirects.

  125. Corrected

    CCF was shown at its predecessor's seat in Guadeloupe

    the row was Banque des Caraïbes and kept that bank's seat when it took the CCF name. Two rows also shared the address /bank/ccf, one on each BIC an authority gives CCF, so which one a reader saw was not defined.

    Affected
    BDCAFRPP (FR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    30 rue Frébault, 97110 Pointe-à-Pitre
    Correct
    103 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris
    Settled by
    GLEIF's record for LEI 969500VFRBX1W3Y3XS80, which holds Banque des Caraïbes as the previous legal name and the Paris seat, the ACPR's REGAFI register, and the bank's own legal notice, which publishes the same seat and RCS number.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Which BIC CCF's retail customers carry is not settled here: GLEIF lists BDCAFRPP against the entity and the EPC register holds its SEPA participation under CCDFFRPP, and the bank publishes neither. Both rows stay, and the disagreement is recorded rather than decided.

  126. Corrected

    Two German banks were shown under a name they no longer have

    nothing we run could raise either one. The sweep that watches names asks GLEIF, keyed on the BIC, and GLEIF stops carrying a BIC once the legal person behind it is retired, so it goes silent at exactly the moment a name goes stale. The routing register keeps the code, because payments still use it, and says what it is called now. Neither bank appeared in any backlog.

    Affected
    two banks (DE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Bank Schilling & Co Aktiengesellschaft (BSHADE71) and Hauck Aufhaeuser Lampe Privatbank AG (HAUKDEFF)
    Correct
    MERKUR PRIVATBANK KGaA and ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Frankfurt Branch, which trades as Bethmann HAL
    Settled by
    the Deutsche Bundesbank's Bankleitzahlen file, which holds BLZ 79032038 as MERKUR PRIVATBANK and both of Hauck Aufhaeuser Lampe's codes as ABN AMRO Bank, Frankfurt Branch; GLEIF, which has no entity of the Bank Schilling name and records Hauck Aufhaeuser Lampe Privatbank AG as retired with ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as its successor; and each bank's own imprint.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The Frankfurt address moved with the second one: Kaiserstrasse 24 was the retired firm's, and the branch's own imprint gives Mainzer Landstrasse 1. Both former addresses still redirect.

  127. Corrected

    LBBW and BW-Bank were shown under each other's names

    the two hand-written entries had the names crossed, and the generated table built from the register had them right, so an IBAN resolved to one name while the register said the other. Both banks belong to the same group and share a website, which is why it read as plausible for so long.

    Affected
    two banks (DE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    bank code 60020030 (SOLADEST601) as Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and 60050101 (SOLADEST600) as Baden-Württembergische Bank
    Correct
    the two the other way round
    Settled by
    the Deutsche Bundesbank's Bankleitzahlen file, which gives 60020030 to Baden-Württembergische Bank and 60050101 to Landesbank Baden-Württemberg/Baden-Württembergische Bank, and repeats the same pairing in Karlsruhe with 66020020 and 66050000; the third and fourth digits of a Bankleitzahl, which are the banking group, 02 for the regional banks and 05 for the Landesbanken; and lbbw.de's own imprint, which publishes 60050101.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Both names, both addresses and both older addresses swapped together, so every link that worked before still works and now lands on the bank the register says it is.

  128. Corrected

    Three banks were shown under a misspelling of their own name

    each is a transcription slip rather than an old name: two letters of Darmstadt swapped, a capital I standing in for a lowercase l in the Estonian word hoiu-laenuühistu, and the letters of the Finnish and Swedish legal forms Oy and Ab swapped across the two words. They survived because the sweep that watches names asks whether a name is a register’s FORMER one, and a misspelling is not a former name, so it sat in the unread pile with three hundred others instead of being flagged.

    Affected
    three banks (DE, EE, FI) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “Volksbank Darmsatd Mainz eG”, “Maaelu Edendamise Hoiu-Iaenuuhistu” and “Narvi Payments Ob Ay”
    Correct
    Volksbank Darmstadt Mainz eG, Maaelu Edendamise Hoiu-laenuühistu and Narvi Payments Oy Ab
    Settled by
    GLEIF for all three, and each bank’s own site: the Volksbank prints its name throughout, the Estonian society carries it in its copyright line, and Narvi prints its name with the registration number GLEIF records.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    A misspelling costs more than it looks. Two of the three had no website on record, and the reason was the typo itself: the website check looks for our name on the page, and these names are on no page anywhere. Correcting them let both banks’ own sites be confirmed on the next attempt. They were found by measuring the difference between our name and the register’s rather than reading it, which is what separates a slip from a rename. All former addresses still redirect.

  129. Corrected

    Two banks were shown under former names that a spelling difference had hidden

    the sweep that catches renames compares our name against the register's former names word by word, and it stripped the umlaut where we store the digraph the banks write in ASCII. “Oberoesterreich” became OBEROESTERREICH and “Oberösterreich” became OBEROSTERREICH, so two spellings of one word never met and the rename fell out of every queue. The same happened to “Zuerich” against “Zürich”. The website checker had been folding both ways for months, for exactly this reason; this one had not.

    Affected
    two banks (AT, CH) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “Allgemeine Sparkasse Oberoesterreich Bankaktiengesellschaft” and “BANK SPARHAFEN ZUERICH AG”
    Correct
    Sparkasse Oberösterreich Bank AG and Sparhafen Bank AG
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which holds each old name as that entity's previous legal name. The Austrian one is corroborated by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank's own register, which lists the BIC under the new name, and the Swiss one by the bank's own site, which titles itself Sparhafen Bank.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The fold now tries both spellings, so a name can only gain a match, never lose one. Fixing it also removed 82 rows from the reading queue that were only there because of the same difference. Both former addresses still redirect.

  130. Corrected

    Twenty-four Austrian banks had no website on record

    the same country-by-country backlog. Austria would have been as slow as France, because its registered names carry words the banks' own sites never print, but it did not have to be: the Oesterreichische Nationalbank publishes an official website against every bank's BIC and updates it daily. That is the register itself, which outranks a search result.

    Affected
    24 of 29 banks (AT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    no “Official website” row at all on those banks’ pages
    Correct
    each now links the site the bank itself publishes
    Settled by
    the Austrian national bank's register for the address, and the page itself in every case but one, to confirm the register is not out of date. It sometimes is: the register gives sbausparkasse.co.at for the s Bausparkasse, which does not answer at all, while sbausparkasse.at does and names the bank. VOLKSKREDITBANK does not answer from our network, so it rests on an archived copy of the same domain alongside the register.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Nine of them are Sparkassen with no domain of their own, which live at their own path on the shared portal, so the path is stored rather than the bare host: sparkasse.at alone names every Austrian Sparkasse at once. Each path was checked for where it actually lands, and that caught the reason Sparkasse Scheibbs is one of the five left empty: its section now serves Sparkasse Amstetten's page, under the joint name Sparkasse Amstetten Scheibbs. The merger is not recorded here, because both the Austrian register and GLEIF still list Scheibbs as its own institution, and a bank is not closed until a register says so.

  131. Corrected

    Two MUFG branches were still shown under the name the bank dropped in 2018

    the directory already carried the current name on four sibling rows, in London, Amsterdam and Istanbul, so the same institution was published under two different names depending on which page a reader landed on. These two rows came in with an old register import and nothing compared them against their own siblings.

    Affected
    two branches (FR, IT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ LTD. PARIS BRANCH” and “BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ Ltd Milano Branch”
    Correct
    MUFG Bank, Ltd. Paris Branch and MUFG Bank, Ltd. Milano Branch. The bank, the licence and the BIC are unchanged; only the name is.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which holds 株式会社三菱東京UFJ銀行 (The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.) as a previous legal name for this entity and “MUFG Bank, Ltd.” as its Latin legal name, and the bank’s own site, which calls itself MUFG Bank throughout.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The wording follows the London row, which had already been corrected. Both former addresses still resolve. A related inconsistency is left open on purpose: four MUFG rows link to the group’s site and three, including these two, have no website at all, and that link does not name any individual branch.

  132. Corrected

    Five French banks had no website on record

    France did not behave like the countries before it. French registered names carry words the bank’s own site never prints, so a page can name the bank perfectly and still fail a check that asks for every word of “CAISSE DE CREDIT MUNICIPAL DE LYON”. Rather than loosen that check, which is what keeps the wrong site out, each candidate was tied to the institution by its registration number: GLEIF publishes the SIREN, and a French site must publish its own.

    Affected
    5 of 31 banks (FR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    no “Official website” row at all on those banks’ pages
    Correct
    each now links the site the bank itself publishes
    Settled by
    the bank’s own legal notice in every case, each carrying the SIREN GLEIF holds for that BIC. Societe de Banque et d’Expansion publishes its LEI as well, and it matches.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The other twenty-six are still empty, and the registration numbers are why. Three candidates named the bank and were still rejected: sfil.fr is registered to Sfil, not to Caisse Française de Financement Local, and swile.co to Swile, not to Swile Payment, so both are a parent’s site rather than the entity we list. The third matters more. federalfinancegroup.com titles itself “Fédéral Finance Group” and its legal notice even quotes the right SIREN, but it declares the wrong legal form, gives “France” as its registered address, and offers non-repayable financing to companies in difficulty. The French state register shows that SIREN belongs to a société anonyme in Le Relecq-Kerhuon. It was not published.

  133. Corrected

    A Maltese bank was shown under the name it changed two months ago

    the rename is not in GLEIF. The register sweep asks GLEIF whether a name we hold appears among an entity’s previous names, and GLEIF still lists NOVUM BANK LIMITED as current with no previous name at all, so there was nothing for the sweep to see. It surfaced while filling in Maltese websites, because the domain the bank now publishes carries the new name.

    Affected
    VOCBMTMT (MT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Novum Bank Limited
    Correct
    Bank DiMare Limited. The bank changed its legal entity name, not its licence: same registration number C46997, same Msida address, same MFSA credit institution licence, and an existing account number is unaffected.
    Settled by
    the bank’s own site, which announces the change in its own words: “Following regulatory approval, Novum Bank Limited has officially changed its legal entity name to Bank DiMare Limited”, dated 15 July 2026, on a page whose footer carries registration number C46997 and the Msida address GLEIF holds for the Novum Bank row.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    GLEIF is behind the bank here rather than contradicting it, so the change was taken from the bank’s own announcement. The old address /bank/novum-bank-limited still resolves to the renamed page.

  134. Corrected

    Thirty Maltese banks had no website on record

    the same country-by-country backlog as Spain, Belgium and Denmark; Malta is now down to three. A thirty-first row was filled too, the Central Bank of Malta’s second row, but that bank was already showing a website from its other row and so was never missing one.

    Affected
    30 of 34 banks (MT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    no “Official website” row at all on those banks’ pages
    Correct
    each now links the site the bank itself publishes
    Settled by
    the bank’s own page in every case but two. The Central Bank of Malta and Izola Bank both sit behind a block that does not lift in a browser either, so those two rest on an archived copy of the same domain together with what the search index returns for them today.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Three were left empty on purpose. Papaya Ltd of Gzira shares its name with an American billing company whose site is the one that comes back, and the Maltese firm publishes none. Shift4 Ltd is the Maltese bank formerly called Credorax, and shift4.com never names it: the only page that does is a statutory annual reports listing, which is not the bank’s site. System Pay Services (Malta) Ltd was the sharpest: bvnk.com never names it, and syspay.com turned out to be a different company that says so itself, in as many words, on its own front page. One more was moved by hand: the ladder had settled on a savings microsite for IIG Bank because the bank’s real home page serves a bodyless redirect stub, and the microsite links back to the domain that actually runs the bank’s e-banking.

  135. Corrected

    Three closed banks linked to a domain that was no longer theirs

    the link was right when it was written and each bank has since stopped trading. Nothing re-checked it, because the website audit reads what a page calls itself and none of these rows had been put through it after the bank closed. A closed bank is exactly where the link rots first.

    Affected
    three banks (BG, FR, IE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    an “Official website” link to kbcbank.bg for Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria, to orangebank.fr for Orange Bank, and to ulsterbank.ie for Ulster Bank Ireland
    Correct
    the Bulgarian domain no longer resolves at all and the field is now empty, with the successor named in the notice instead. The other two redirect, and the destination is stored: orangeobk.fr, which is Orange’s own standing page for former customers, and ulydien.ie, the renamed entity’s own site.
    Settled by
    each domain was loaded. kbcbank.bg does not resolve; Raiffeisenbank Bulgaria was merged into United Bulgarian Bank in 2023. orangeobk.fr states in Orange’s own words that the bank ceased trading, is no longer a credit institution, and that accounts were closed and loans settled or transferred. ulydien.ie is the site of the entity Ulster Bank Ireland became when it returned its banking licence.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    On a closed bank’s page this is the link a reader is most likely to follow, which is why an empty field was preferred to a dead one for the Bulgarian row. The Orange redirect was worth following rather than merely recording: its destination tells someone holding an old account number what happened to it, which the press release does not.

  136. Corrected

    A Danish bank that had merged was shown as trading, and a second carried the register’s typo

    the merger turned up while filling in Danish websites rather than from the monitoring: nordfynsbank.dk redirects to Middelfart Sparekasse and lands on a page it keeps for former Nordfyns customers. The bank is in no GLEIF record at all, so the register sweep had nothing to compare. The spelling came in with the EPC register import and had been carried ever since.

    Affected
    two banks (DK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    A/S Nordfyns Bank as an independent bank with a SEPA badge and an illustrative IBAN; and Borbjerg Sparekasse under the spelling “Borbjerg Sparekassse”, which was also in its address
    Correct
    Nordfyns Bank merged into Middelfart Sparekasse, approved in both institutions on 1 December 2025. Borbjerg Sparekasse spells its name with two s.
    Settled by
    the bank’s own page about the merger agreement, Middelfart Sparekasse’s own announcement that it was approved, and the Danish competition authority’s decision. For the spelling, the bank’s own site.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Middelfart Sparekasse expects to bring all customers onto one system during 2026, so the notice says an existing Nordfyns account number may still work until then. The register’s own spelling is kept in the record; what changed is the name shown and the address built from it, and the old address still resolves.

  137. Corrected

    Thirty-five Danish banks had no website on record

    the same country-by-country backlog as Spain and Belgium; Denmark is now empty.

    Affected
    35 of 36 banks (DK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    no “Official website” row at all on those banks’ pages
    Correct
    each now links the site the bank itself publishes
    Settled by
    the bank’s own page in every case. Seven were confirmed by reading: three answer a script with a bot wall and open normally in a browser, one trades as Andelskassen while the directory holds Danske Andelskassers Bank A/S, and one is Rise Sparekasse, which the directory holds as Rise Flemlose Sparekasse.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The thirty-sixth was Nordfyns Bank, whose domain answered with the successor’s site rather than its own. That is recorded as a merger above, not as a website.

  138. Corrected

    Twenty-five Belgian banks had no website on record

    the same country-by-country backlog as Spain; Belgium had not been done.

    Affected
    25 of 33 banks (BE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    no “Official website” row at all on those banks’ pages
    Correct
    each now links the site the bank itself publishes
    Settled by
    the bank’s own page in every case, read for what it calls itself: bankdekremer.be titles itself Bank de Kremer, vandeput.be titles itself VAN DE PUT & CO Banquiers Privés, ing.be titles itself ING Belgium.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Three that the automatic check had approved were rejected on reading. pps.eu.com is an express and logistics company that shares the initials of PPS EU SA. mastercard.com is the group site, and the page it answered with was a Turkish locale that never names the Belgian company. equalsmoney.com is the UK group. Five more were left empty because the group site never names the Belgian entity, and CPH Banque because its site does not answer us at all.

  139. Corrected

    Four more banks that had been absorbed were shown as trading in their own right

    these were the second half of the same blind spot: the monitoring could not tell a merger from a gap in the register, so for each of them the silence was recorded as normal. Asking the register a second question, by name, surfaced all four on the first full sweep after the fix.

    Affected
    four banks, plus two names (CY, NL, NO, DK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Eurobank Cyprus, RegioBank, Sbanken and Spar Nord as independent banks; Hellenic Bank under a name it has stopped using; and the UK BIC SMBCGB2L described as a branch of the Japanese parent rather than the UK subsidiary that holds it
    Correct
    Eurobank Cyprus has merged with Hellenic Bank, and the combined bank is Eurobank Limited. RegioBank became ASN Bank on 1 December 2025. Sbanken merged into DNB and survives only as a DNB brand. Spar Nord was taken over by Nykredit and the register has retired it. SMBCGB2L belongs to SMBC Bank International plc.
    Settled by
    each bank’s own site said so plainly once it was asked. RegioBank’s page opens “RegioBank is nu ASN Bank”, Sbanken’s titles itself “Sbanken fra DNB”, and Eurobank Cyprus opens on the merger. For Sbanken the Norwegian register settled it: every routing range it used is now listed under DNB. GLEIF and the Wise directory agree on SMBC.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Three of the four still have an open website and a brand in use, and two of them say in their own words that customers keep their account number. Each notice says so, because “no longer operates independently” on its own would read as “this account is gone”, which is not what these banks are telling their customers.

  140. Corrected

    Forty-three Spanish banks had no website on record

    the field has been filled country by country and Spain had not been done. Its particular difficulty is that the directory holds the full registered title, “CAJA DE CREDITO DE LOS INGENIEROS S. COOP. DE CREDITO”, while the bank trades as Caja de Ingenieros, so the automatic check could not match the two.

    Affected
    43 of 49 banks (ES) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    no “Official website” row at all on those banks’ pages
    Correct
    each now links the site the bank itself publishes
    Settled by
    the bank’s own page in every case. Ten were confirmed by reading the legal notice, which gives the registered name and usually the tax number: laboralkutxa.com prints “CAJA LABORAL POPULAR, COOP. DE CRÉDITO”, cajalmendralejo.es gives CIF F06004816.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Six were left empty rather than guessed: A&G, Banco Cetelem, Banco Inversis, Bnext, Monex Europa and Getnet EMoney. For four the site renders only through scripts we could not read, and for Getnet the page names a different Santander company, Getnet Europe Entidad de Pago, not the e-money institution this BIC belongs to.

  141. Corrected

    Five banks that had stopped trading were shown as open

    the monitoring that watches for a bank disappearing could not tell a merger from a gap in the register. When a bank merges its BIC stops resolving, but so does the BIC of any branch or payment institution the register simply does not index, and the two are the same silence. The check recorded the silence and moved on.

    Affected
    five banks (IE, MC, GB, NO, LT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Baltinglass Credit Union, BNP Paribas Wealth Management Monaco, J.P. Morgan International Bank, Oslofjord Sparebank and UAB Lock Trust as active banks, each with a SEPA badge and an illustrative IBAN
    Correct
    Baltinglass transferred its engagements to Altura Credit Union in March 2025; the Monaco company was dissolved into BNP Paribas in January 2024; the London J.P. Morgan entity merged into what is now J.P. Morgan SE in 2019; and the Bank of Lithuania revoked UAB Lock Trust’s licence, after which it went bankrupt and was dissolved. Oslofjord Sparebank merged into Sparebanken Norge in November 2025, but its routing code did not stop: the Norwegian register carries it as a live Sparebanken Norge code, so that row now names the successor instead of warning the reader off.
    Settled by
    each bank’s own or its successor’s, alongside the register: Altura’s site now lists Baltinglass as one of its branches, the Journal de Monaco published the Monaco dissolution, Oslofjord announced its own merger, and the Austrian regulator published the Lithuanian licence revocation.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The check now asks a second question when a BIC resolves to nothing: it looks the bank up by name, and treats it as gone only when every record under that name is dead. That rule matters. Taking the first dead match instead would have called Societe Generale, UBS, Goldman Sachs and TSB closed, because each has an old vehicle retired under a name very like the bank’s. A sixth candidate, Bank Norwegian, was rejected on the same principle: its branch LEI is retired but the branch is open and says so on its own site. Oslofjord shows the other half of the rule: a bank can be gone while its code is not, and the check that a notice may never sit on a bank the tables call active is what caught that.

  142. Corrected

    J.P. Morgan’s German bank was shown under the name it dropped in 2022

    the sweep that catches renames works by matching our label against the previous names the register keeps. GLEIF holds no previous name for this entity, so there was nothing to match and the sweep had no way to see it. It surfaced only while tracing where another bank had gone.

    Affected
    CHASDEFX (DE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “JPMorgan AG”
    Correct
    J.P. Morgan SE, which is what the entity became when it converted to a Societas Europaea
    Settled by
    GLEIF gives the current legal name as J.P. Morgan SE, and the bank’s own German page publishes its regulatory reports under that name.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026
  143. Corrected

    comdirect, whose accounts are open, was marked as having stopped trading

    the 2020 merger was of the legal entity into Commerzbank, which is ownership. The status column is what drives the closure warning, and it was set from the corporate event rather than from whether the code still takes payments. comdirect has nine sort codes and the other eight already resolved as active, through the register, so the site disagreed with itself.

    Affected
    COBADEHD (DE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “Comdirect (merged into Commerzbank AG, November 2020)” and marked merged, so a comdirect IBAN was answered with a warning that the bank no longer operates independently, and the page dropped its SEPA badge and its illustrative IBAN
    Correct
    comdirect, active, a brand of Commerzbank AG
    Settled by
    the Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen file lists all nine comdirect sort codes as active; comdirect’s own site is open for banking and titles every page “comdirect - eine Marke der Commerzbank AG”.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The relationship to Commerzbank is now carried in the name, where it describes ownership, instead of in a status that reads as closure.

  144. Corrected

    A live German savings bank was shown as having been absorbed in 2001

    Berliner Bank was a brand Landesbank Berlin sold to Deutsche Bank in 2007, on its own sort code 10020000. A curated row put that brand on the savings bank’s code, and a curated row overrides the Bundesbank register, which had the institution right all along. A second row, on the retired 10020000, asserted the same BIC and was the one answering /swift/beladebe.

    Affected
    BELADEBE (DE) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Berliner Sparkasse under the name “Berliner Bank (merged into Berliner Sparkasse 2001)” and marked merged, so its pages carried a warning that the bank no longer operates independently and dropped its SEPA badge and its illustrative IBAN. Any German IBAN on sort code 10050000 resolved to that label.
    Correct
    Berliner Sparkasse, active. The institution behind BELADEBEXXX is BSK 1818 AG, formerly Landesbank Berlin AG, which renamed itself in July 2025.
    Settled by
    three that agree: the Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen file lists 10050000 as “BSK 1818 - Berliner Sparkasse” with BIC BELADEBEXXX, GLEIF records BSK 1818 AG as active and formerly Landesbank Berlin AG, and the bank’s own imprint prints “Bankleitzahl 10050000, BIC BELADEBEXXX”.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The duplicate row on 10020000 has been removed, and both addresses it and the savings bank had published still resolve.

  145. Corrected

    HSBC’s two UK banks carried each other’s name, and one was marked merged

    the two entities were separated by ring-fencing in 2018 and their codes were entered the wrong way round. Nothing compared them against the register afterwards, and the status field, which is what put the warning on the page, was compared by nothing at all.

    Affected
    two banks (GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    HBUKGB4B as “HSBC Bank UK” and MIDLGB21 as “HSBC UK (Midland legacy)”, the second marked merged, so a UK IBAN on the MIDL code was met with a warning that the bank no longer operates independently
    Correct
    HBUKGB4B is HSBC UK Bank plc, the ring-fenced retail bank. MIDLGB21 is HSBC Bank plc, which operates.
    Settled by
    GLEIF resolves HBUKGB4BXXX to HSBC UK BANK PLC and MIDLGB22XXX to HSBC BANK PLC, both active; the Wise BIC directory returns HSBC BANK PLC for MIDLGB2145P.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026
  146. Corrected

    A merged Slovenian bank was said to have gone to the wrong bank

    the successor was written from memory rather than read from a source. NLB is Slovenia’s other large bank and did absorb N Banka, three years later.

    Affected
    ABANSI2X (SI) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    “Abanka (merged into NLB)”
    Correct
    Abanka merged into Nova KBM on 1 September 2020. Nova KBM is today OTP banka d.d., so that is where a reader holding an old Abanka account number should look.
    Settled by
    the GLEIF record for Abanka d.d., which retires the entity, names its successor and dates the merger to 1 September 2020.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026
  147. Corrected

    Two banks were given one status by the checker and another by their own page

    whether a bank still operates was the one identity field that neither the sync between the checker’s tables and the directory nor the check that guards them ever compared. A row could match on name and BIC and still contradict itself about the thing that decides whether the page warns the reader at all.

    Affected
    two banks (IE, RO) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Ulster Bank Ireland as merged, which reads as “now part of another bank”, when no bank succeeded it; and Alpha Bank Romania as active in the checker while its own page said merged
    Correct
    Ulster Bank Ireland is closed: it returned its banking licence to the Central Bank of Ireland on 27 June 2025 and now trades as Ulydien DAC, a retail credit firm. Alpha Bank Romania is merged, into UniCredit Bank S.A., completed on 18 August 2025.
    Settled by
    NatWest Group’s own brands page states the date the licence was returned and the new name; UniCredit’s own press release announces the Romanian merger as completed.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Both halves now compare status, and the check fails the build on a disagreement. It found the Romanian one within a minute of being written.

  148. Corrected

    Two Danish banks that had merged were shown as still trading

    nothing watches for a bank ceasing to exist. The rename sweep asks the register whether a name is current, and both of these were caught only because that sweep flagged the names beside them: Rønde had also dropped “og Omegns” from its name, and Sydbank's rename led to the bank it had absorbed. A merger that leaves the name alone would still be invisible.

    Affected
    two banks (DK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Vestjysk Bank A/S and Rønde Sparekasse as active, independent banks, each with a SEPA badge, an illustrative IBAN and an answer of “Yes” to whether you can send it a credit transfer
    Correct
    both are marked merged. Vestjysk Bank is part of AL Sydbank; Rønde Sparekasse has merged into Middelfart Sparekasse
    Settled by
    each bank's own site. vestjyskbank.dk carries the banner “Vi er blevet til AL Sydbank”, and roendespar.dk carries a standing page titled “Fusion med Middelfart Sparekasse”, which Middelfart announced in March 2026.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Rønde's own page says the two are technically separate until spring 2027 and that its customers keep their existing netbank until then, so the code may well still route. That is why the status is merged rather than closed, and why the notice says the institution no longer stands alone rather than claiming the code has stopped working, which we have not checked.

  149. Corrected

    Seven banks were shown under names they no longer use

    for four of them the national register we generate our tables from still carries the old name. SIX has not updated Baloise Bank or PKB, and the Norwegian register has not updated JBF Sparebank, so a refresh of those files would have reinstated the old value. The other three sat in the directory, which no register keeps current once a row is written.

    Affected
    seven banks (FR, NO, CH, DK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Banque Edel SNC, SpareBank 1 Hallingdal, Jernbanepersonalets Sparebank, Baloise Bank SoBa, PKB Privatbank AG, Rønde og Omegns Sparekasse and Sydbank A/S
    Correct
    Banque Edel SA, SpareBank 1 Hallingdal Valdres, JBF Sparebank, Baloise Bank AG, PKB Private Bank SA, Rønde Sparekasse and AL Sydbank A/S
    Settled by
    the register of legal entities and the bank, for every one. GLEIF holds each old value as a previous legal name; alongside it, banque-edel.fr's legal notice gives Banque Edel SA, baloise.ch prints “Baloise Bank AG” beside BIC KBSOCH22, pkb.ch signs every page “PKB Private Bank SA, Lugano”, sydbank.dk says “Sydbank er blevet til AL Sydbank”, and the two Nordic banks carry their new names on their own pages. JBF Sparebank announced its rename through Euronext in December 2023.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Every old address still resolves: each renamed page keeps its previous URL as a redirect. Where the register lags, the correction is written as a curated override so the next refresh of the generated file cannot undo it. PKB's Zurich and Geneva clearing numbers keep the register's wording, because a curated entry asks for a page of its own and two more pages differing only by city is a problem this directory has already been through.

  150. Corrected

    A German savings bank's “official website” was a parked domain

    the address is the bank's name with the hyphen dropped, sitting behind a “ww19.” subdomain, which is how ad-funded domain parking is served. Our parked-domain guard looks for for-sale wording, and a page that merely runs ads carries none, so it read as an ordinary site that happened not to mention the bank.

    Affected
    BBKRDE6B (DE) · /bank/kreissparkasse-boeblingen, /swift/bbkrde6b
    We showed
    ww19.kreissparkasseboeblingen.de as the official website of Kreissparkasse Boeblingen. That host serves a 61-byte page whose entire content is a privacy link, with no bank on it at all
    Correct
    kskbb.de, the bank's own site, which titles itself Internet-Filiale - Kreissparkasse Böblingen
    Settled by
    the bank's own site at kskbb.de, whose page names Kreissparkasse Böblingen. Found by re-checking all 1,545 stored websites against the identity check, which is the only reason anyone looked at this row.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    It was the only wrong value among all 1,545. Of the 168 that did not name their bank, the rest are a branch row pointing at its group's site, a page whose own name is in another script, or our stored name being the full registered style where the page prints only the brand.

  151. Corrected

    Three Gibraltar banks were listed as being in the United Kingdom

    characters five and six of a BIC are the ISO country code, and all three read GI. The rows were imported with GB anyway and nothing compared the two. The directory already held one correctly filed Gibraltar row, so these were three rows out of step rather than a convention.

    Affected
    three banks (GI) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the bank directory's country grouping
    We showed
    Gibraltar International Bank, Moneycorp Bank and SG Kleinwort Hambros (Gibraltar) were shown with the United Kingdom as their country, and pointed at the UK IBAN format
    Correct
    all three are in Gibraltar, which has its own IBAN country code and format
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which gives all three a legal address in Gibraltar, agreeing with their own BICs.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    The wrong country also hid their own websites: a .gi domain looked foreign to the check that confirms a bank's site, so Gibraltar International Bank could not be given gibintbank.gi until the country was right.

  152. Corrected

    Four banks were shown under names they no longer use

    our rename sweep reads GLEIF, which records an entity's previous names, and two separate gaps hid these. Two of them changed in a way that left the old name looking like the new one, because the sweep tests whether every distinctive word of the shorter name appears in the longer: “SG Hambros” sits inside “SG Kleinwort Hambros”, and “Helgeland Sparebank” has the same words as “SpareBank 1 Helgeland”. Both were read as already current and the register's own record of the former name was never consulted. The other two went the opposite way and landed in the sweep's weak queue, where a name that looks unrelated waits to be read by a person: Orkdal against Orkla differs in the one word that matters, and MUFG's registered name is in Japanese.

    Affected
    four banks (NO, GI, GB) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Orkdal Sparebank, Helgeland Sparebank, SG Hambros Bank (Gibraltar) Limited and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. London Branch
    Correct
    Orkla Sparebank, SpareBank 1 Helgeland, SG Kleinwort Hambros (Gibraltar) Limited and MUFG Bank, Ltd. London Branch
    Settled by
    GLEIF for all four. For Orkla Sparebank the bank's own site agrees, declaring itself Orkla Sparebank at the Orkanger address; SpareBank 1 Helgeland is corroborated by its own section of the alliance site. For the other two GLEIF lists our name as a FORMER name of the entity, which is the register saying the bank was renamed rather than two names merely looking different.
    Detected
    14 September 2026
    Corrected
    14 September 2026

    Every old address still resolves: each renamed page keeps its previous URL as a redirect. The sweep now consults the register even when the two names look alike, which is what found the Gibraltar case when the old name was replayed through it.

  153. Corrected

    A Breton bank was named for the wrong banking group, two words apart

    the two words are transposed, and their order is what says which group the bank belongs to: “Credit Agricole Mutuel” is the legal form Credit Agricole's regional banks use, so the spelling reads as a Credit Agricole entity. The EPC SEPA participant register publishes it this way and we imported it as given, without checking the name against a second source.

    Affected
    CBCRFR21 (FR) · /bank/caisse-de-bretagne-de-credit-agricole-mutuel, /swift/cbcrfr21
    We showed
    Caisse de Bretagne de Credit AGRICOLE MUTUEL
    Correct
    Caisse de Bretagne de Credit MUTUEL AGRICOLE, the registered name of Credit Mutuel de Bretagne, the bank of the Arkea federation at Le Relecq-Kerhuon
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which registers CBCRFR21XXX to CAISSE DE BRETAGNE DE CREDIT MUTUEL AGRICOLE at Le Relecq-Kerhuon, and the bank's own site, which names Credit Mutuel de Bretagne, Arkea and Le Relecq-Kerhuon on the page
    Detected
    13 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 September 2026

    Found while filling in French banks' websites, and the spelling nearly cost this one its correct link: cmb.fr belongs to Credit Mutuel de Bretagne and looked like the wrong institution until GLEIF settled which bank the row is. The retired address still redirects.

  154. Corrected

    SpareBank 1 BV's Official website link pointed at the alliance, not the bank

    a shared network portal was stored as one member's own site. This is the error the directory guards exist to stop, and the value predates them.

    Affected
    FNLANO22XXX (NO) · /bank/sparebank-1-bv, /swift/fnlano22
    We showed
    the SpareBank 1 alliance's portal, which names every member bank
    Correct
    no website. SpareBank 1 BV is recorded as merged, and no successor page could be confirmed for it
    Settled by
    a check of all 954 published website links against those guards, which is answerable from our own data rather than from memory
    Detected
    13 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 September 2026

    An empty field says nothing; a group portal says something untrue, so the link was removed rather than replaced with a guess. The same check flagged fifteen other links and all fifteen are correct: Wise's own site really is wise.com, the Dutch central bank's really is dnb.nl, and a group holding company legitimately owns the group domain.

  155. Corrected

    RLNWATW1 sent visitors to one bank, though thirteen share it

    When the fabricated code was corrected, both spellings we might have published were retired together. That is right for every other correction here, because both forms name one institution. It is wrong for this one: the bare eight characters name the network, so retiring them handed a prefix shared by thirteen banks to the single bank we had published under the XXX form.

    Affected
    RLNWATW1 (AT) · /swift/rlnwatw1, /swift/rlnwatww, /bank/rlb-no-wien
    We showed
    Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederoesterreich-Wien, reached by a redirect, and named on that bank's own page as a code it used to hold
    Correct
    RLNWATW1 is the opening of thirteen Raiffeisen banks' BICs and belongs to none of them on its own. The code we once published for Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederoesterreich-Wien was RLNWATW1XXX, and its code today is RLNWATWW
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which registers RLNWATWWXXX to Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederoesterreich-Wien and holds no record of RLNWATW1 in any spelling, and the OeNB directory, which lists the thirteen member banks under the prefix.
    Detected
    13 September 2026
    Corrected
    13 September 2026

    /swift/rlnwatw1 is now the shared-prefix page listing the thirteen banks, /swift/rlnwatw1xxx still redirects, and the note on the surviving page names RLNWATW1XXX, the spelling that was actually ours. A redirect standing in front of a shared-prefix page now fails the build; this was the only one.

  156. Corrected

    Banca Popolare di Bari shown under a name it had already left

    the sweep that catches renames compares our name against the former names the register keeps, and it treats a name as matched only when every distinctive word of the shorter one appears in the longer. It did not know the Italian legal forms, so our “Soc. coop. p.a.” and the register’s “SOCIETA’ PER AZIONI” counted as distinctive words rather than as legal form, and a genuine former-name match scored as unrelated.

    Affected
    BPBAIT3B (IT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    BANCA POPOLARE DI BARI Soc. coop. p.a.
    Correct
    BdM Banca S.p.A.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which lists Banca Popolare di Bari as a former name of this entity, and the bank’s own site at bdmbanca.it, which titles itself BdM Banca
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    The previous address still resolves: /bank/banca-popolare-di-bari-soc-coop-pa redirects to /bank/bdm-banca. Teaching the sweep those legal forms also settled five Italian cooperative banks whose names had only ever differed in the suffix.

  157. Corrected

    Thirteen banks shown under names their own registers had replaced

    our GLEIF sweep was built to answer a different question, whether a BIC belongs to an unrelated entity, and it reports name overlap below 0.34. A rebrand keeps the distinctive part of the name and scores above that: Medicinos against Urbo bankas scores 0.50, Sparebanken against SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge 0.67. So a renamed bank passed silently while a wrong BIC would not have.

    Affected
    thirteen banks (PL, LT, RS, NO, IE, ES, IT, CY, DK) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Santander Bank Polska, Medicinos bankas, NLB Komercijalna banka, Sparebanken Nord-Norge, Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane, Sparebank 1 SR-Bank, Ambr Payments, Ballinasloe Credit Union, PagoNxt EMoney, Banca Popolare Vesuviana, TFI Markets and Sparekassen Balling
    Correct
    Erste Bank Polska, Urbo bankas, NLB Banka Beograd, SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge, SpareBank 1 Sogn og Fjordane, SpareBank 1 Sor-Norge, Newrails, Gateway Credit Union, Getnet EMoney, Banca Popolare Commerciale, TFI Ecommpay and Balling Sparekasse
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which keeps an entity's previous names on its record. Each of these names is listed there as a FORMER name of the entity, which is the register itself saying the bank was renamed rather than two names merely looking different.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Every old address still resolves: each renamed page keeps its previous URL as a redirect. A further 33 cases were examined and deliberately left alone, where GLEIF had moved its own record to a local script (Bank of China Limited becoming its Chinese legal name, for instance) and our convention is to keep the Latin name.

  158. Corrected

    Two banks' Official website link pointed at another institution

    the stored website had never been checked against what the page calls itself. 178 of the 556 links we publish were in that state, which is also where wrong logos come from, because a logo is fetched from whatever site the row names.

    Affected
    two banks (NO, LV) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    Sparebanken Norge linked to sr-bank.no, which belongs to SpareBank 1 Sor-Norge, a different Norwegian bank; PNB Banka, whose licence was revoked in 2019, linked to bank.lv, which is Latvijas Banka, the central bank
    Correct
    Sparebanken Norge links to its own site at sbnorge.no. No site could be sourced for a bank in liquidation, so PNB Banka's link is removed rather than guessed
    Settled by
    the pages' own titles, and Wikidata's official-website property for Sparebanken Norge, confirmed by loading the site in a browser
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    The other 176 unverified links were read one by one and are sound: almost all of them failed an automated check because our name is an English translation, because the page is in a local script, or because a foreign branch points at its parent entity's own site.

  159. Corrected

    Ulster Bank's Belfast entity carried the Irish entity's BIC, and the Irish one was described as merged into AIB

    two rows shared one BIC with conflicting descriptions, and the wrong one was the active retail bank. The Irish row's wording came from the loan-book sale rather than from what happened to the entity.

    Affected
    ULSBGB2BXXX (GB, IE) · /bank/ulster-bank, /bank/ulster-bank-ireland, /swift/ulsbgb2b, /swift/ulsbie2d
    We showed
    Ulster Bank Limited of Belfast listed under ULSBIE2D, the BIC of Ulster Bank Ireland DAC in Dublin, and linked to the Irish site; the Irish row described the bank as merged into AIB
    Correct
    the Belfast entity is ULSBGB2B and links to ulsterbank.co.uk. Ulster Bank Ireland returned its banking licence to the Central Bank of Ireland on 27 June 2025 and now operates as Ulydien DAC; it did not merge into AIB, which bought part of its loan book
    Settled by
    GLEIF, which places ULSBGB2B on Ulster Bank, Limited of Belfast, and the bank's own site, which states the licence return and the new name in its own words
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Found while sweeping every stored website for a bank's own announcement that it had stopped being a bank. The same sweep found that Virgin Money's business transferred to Nationwide on 23 February 2026; its page now records Nationwide as its owner, and its status is unchanged because GLEIF still carries the entity as active.

  160. Corrected

    Piraeus, Migros Bank and Boursorama shown with marks they have replaced

    these three were flagged as doubtful in the September currency sweep and left unresolved because the automated pass could not reach their marks. Reaching them took reading each bank's own site rather than stopping where the tool stopped.

    Affected
    three banks (GR, CH, FR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    the older PIRAEUS BANK wordmark above a blue and gold square, Migros Bank's stacked BANCA BANQUE MIGROS BANK lockup, and Boursorama on a bank that now trades as BoursoBank
    Correct
    the Piraeus mark with its four slanted bars, the MIGROS BANK wordmark in the bank's orange-to-magenta gradient, and the BoursoBank lockup
    Settled by
    piraeusbank.gr, migrosbank.ch and boursobank.com, whose own page title reads BoursoBank (ex-Boursorama Banque)
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Mashreq was checked in the same pass and left alone: its mark is current. Boursorama's stored website was also corrected, from the group's news portal to the bank's own site.

  161. Corrected

    Four banks shown wearing another institution's mark through a shared file

    one logo file was being served to several banks, which is only correct when those banks really do share a brand. Nothing recorded whether they did, so unrelated institutions ended up on one mark wherever their names looked similar.

    Affected
    four banks (HR, SI, TR) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    K&H Bank, a Hungarian KBC Group bank, on OTP banka Hrvatska; Erste Bank on Addiko Bank Slovenija; Raiffeisen Schweiz on Raiffeisenbank Austria in Croatia; and QNB's mark on Enpara, which is a consumer brand with a mark of its own
    Correct
    each institution's own mark: otpbanka from otpbanka.hr, the coral Addiko wordmark from addiko.si, the Raiffeisen Bank lockup rba.hr serves from RBI's shared asset path, and the enpara mark from enpara.com
    Settled by
    each bank's own website, plus GLEIF for the Croatian Raiffeisen entity's identity
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Shared marks are now recorded deliberately, and a file served to banks not recorded as one brand fails the build.

  162. Corrected

    Eight more banks shown wearing a brand they have since dropped

    the same gap as the September sweep: a logo was checked once for whose mark it is, and never again for whether the bank still uses it. These eight were found by comparing every published mark against what the bank serves today.

    Affected
    eight banks (AT, NL, IE, ES, DK, GB, CH) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    BAWAG P.S.K. on BAWAG, RegioBank on the bank its own site now calls asn bank voorheen RegioBank, permanent tsb on PTSB, the Santander flame on Openbank, SAXO BANK on SAXO, the RBS initials on Royal Bank of Scotland, Raiffeisen Schweiz's file on an Austrian bank, and a boxed VALIANT wordmark
    Correct
    each bank's current mark, taken from its own website
    Settled by
    each bank's own website, read in September 2026: bawag.at, regiobank.nl, permanenttsbgroup.ie, openbank.es, home.saxo, rbs.co.uk, raiffeisen.at/rlb-steiermark, valiant.ch
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark is the one that was not merely out of date: it carried Raiffeisen Schweiz's file, a different institution in a different country.

  163. Corrected

    Skipton Building Society's mark was cut off

    the file framed the wrong part of its own artwork: its viewBox began at y=86.36 rather than at the top. Nothing measures framing, so it passed every check; it was caught by looking at the mark beside the society's own.

    Affected
    SKIPGB21 (GB) · /bank/skipton-building-society, /swift/skipgb21, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    the lettering clipped at the top and bottom, so the name was not fully readable
    Correct
    the full lockup from the society's own header
    Settled by
    skipton.co.uk's own header
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026
  164. Corrected

    Nine banks shown wearing a brand they no longer use

    a logo was checked for whose mark it depicts, and that question was answered once and never asked again. Whether the bank still uses the mark was never asked at all, so a rebrand could sit on the page indefinitely without any check going red.

    Affected
    nine banks (GR, DE, GB, SA, MK, IT, RO, HU, CH) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Attica Bank on CrediaBank, BHF BANK on ODDO BHF, Clydesdale Bank on Virgin Money, SABB with the HSBC hexagon on Saudi Awwal Bank, the 1984 TSB mark, Banco Popolare on Banco BPM, the Raiffeisen Bank International group lockup on the Romanian and Hungarian banks, and AKB Privatbank Zuerich on Aargauische Kantonalbank
    Correct
    each bank's current mark, taken from its own website
    Settled by
    each bank's own website, read in September 2026: crediabank.com, oddo-bhf.com, uk.virginmoney.com, sab.com, tsb.co.uk, bancobpm.it, raiffeisen.ro, raiffeisen.hu, akb.ch
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Every logo on the site is now checked against the bank's own site, not only when it is added.

  165. Corrected

    NLB Banka Skopje carried a Hong Kong bus company's crest

    the file came from an automatic match that reads a source title and a bank name and scores the overlap. It was recorded internally as an old NLB crest dated 1973, which is what the file's date looked like; it took rendering the image and reading it to see that the crest names a bus company.

    Affected
    TUTNMK22 (MK) · /bank/nlb-banka-ad-skopje, /swift/tutnmk22, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    a crest reading NEW LANTAO BUS CO (1973) LTD, the emblem of a Hong Kong bus operator, with no connection to the bank or to banking
    Correct
    the NLB Banka mark, the purple roundel and wordmark nlb.mk publishes
    Settled by
    nlb.mk's own header
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026
  166. Corrected

    Citibank UAE shown with the mark Citi retired in 2000

    the correct mark was already published and this entry simply did not point at it. A logo was stored per bank rather than per brand, so one drawing existed in eleven copies and a rebrand had to be caught eleven separate times.

    Affected
    CITIAEAD (AE) · /bank/citibank-na-uae, /swift/citiaead, the IBAN result card
    We showed
    the CITIBANK wordmark with the star device
    Correct
    the citi wordmark with the red arc, which ten of its sibling Citi entries already showed
    Settled by
    citi.com's own header
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Shared marks are now recorded as one brand with many members, so the question is asked once.

  167. Corrected

    Aargauische Kantonalbank published under a SWIFT code that does not exist

    an unregistered code entered the directory and was never checked against a registry. It carried the richer record, so the fabricated row looked like the real one and the real one looked incomplete.

    Affected
    AACICH22 (CH) · /swift/aacich22, /bank/akb
    We showed
    a page for AACICH22 presenting it as Aargauische Kantonalbank, carrying the bank's website and the mark of AKB Privatbank Zuerich, a subsidiary that was absorbed into the parent
    Correct
    KBAGCH22, the code SWIFT, GLEIF and the SIX bank master all return for this bank. It was already in the directory as a second, sparser row; the two are now one.
    Settled by
    SWIFT's own BIC directory (0 results for AACICH22XXX, one for KBAGCH22XXX), GLEIF, and the SIX bank master, which also has no routing number 01930
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Swiss IBAN lookups were not affected: this code was in no bank table, so it never resolved an account.

  168. Corrected

    Two banks' real SWIFT codes redirected to a different bank

    Both had once been published here as the other bank's code. When that was corrected, a redirect was added so the old page's visitors would land somewhere, and nobody asked whether the retired spelling belonged to a real institution of its own. It did.

    Affected
    two codes (KW, LV) · /swift/bbkukwkw, /swift/llbblv2x
    We showed
    Typing BBKUKWKW took the visitor to Burgan Bank's page, and LLBBLV2X took them to Magnetiq Bank's. Both are real codes belonging to other institutions: GLEIF registers BBKUKWKW to Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait, alongside its Bahraini and Indian codes, and LLBBLV2X to Signet Bank of Latvia.
    Correct
    Neither code redirects any more. They return a 404 until we hold a record for the institution that actually owns them, because sending someone to the wrong bank is worse than telling them nothing.
    Settled by
    GLEIF, queried for the retired code rather than the current one, which is the question nobody had put to it.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Every one of the eighty-eight corrections we publish was re-checked the same way. The rest are sound, and each now names the authority that settled it on the bank's own page.

  169. Corrected

    Twenty-two banks wore another organisation's logo

    The logo gate accepted two routes: a person's recorded verdict, or the file's bytes resolving to a source whose title shared a word with the bank's name. The second route passed 153 marks. Every one of the twenty-two shares a word with the bank it sat under, which is exactly why a name match cannot be the judge: sponsorships, trade bodies, group parents and same-name-different-country institutions all satisfy it. The gate now accepts only a recorded human verdict, and the whole served set was drawn and read.

    Affected
    22 banks (AE, BG, CY, DE, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, KW, LT, LU, LV, MT, NO, PK, PL, QA, RO, UA) · /swift/qcbaqaqa, /swift/cbkukwkw, /bank/central-bank-of-malta, /swift/bclxlull, /swift/cbauaeaa, /swift/bngrgraa, /swift/cbvilt2x, /swift/unlalv2x, /swift/pbanua2x, /swift/mucbpkka, /swift/bofsgb21
    We showed
    Qatar Central Bank showed Qatar Airways. The Central Bank of Kuwait showed a Wiki Loves Earth photography-contest logo and the Central Bank of Malta showed Wiki Loves Monuments. The Central Bank of Luxembourg showed the University of Luxembourg, the Central Bank of the UAE showed the UAE Cabinet, and the Bank of Greece showed a commercial bank called Optima. Both SEB banks in the Baltics showed Groupe SEB, the French cookware maker. Ukraine's PrivatBank showed Germany's Merkur Privatbank, MCB Bank of Pakistan showed Myanmar Citizens Bank, Bank of Scotland showed RBS, Banca d'Italia showed an asset manager called Ersel, and Credito Emiliano showed Banca Mediolanum. Two Barclays entries showed Pingit, a payment app. The rest named a parent, a sibling or a neighbouring entity: Millennium bcp on Bank Millennium of Poland, UniCredit Bulbank on UniCredit Romania, a Swiss Clientis bank on Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France, CaixaBank on a Bank of Spain record, BLI on Banque de Luxembourg, and two wrong Norwegian savings banks.
    Correct
    All twenty-two entries were removed. Four of the banks turned out to have their real mark already in the registry underneath the wrong one, so the Central Bank of Luxembourg, the Central Bank of Malta, Caisse d'Epargne Île-de-France and PrivatBank now show it. The other eighteen show no logo, which is the honest state until one is found.
    Settled by
    Each mark was rendered on both surfaces and read, and the source file's own title corroborates every one. Two were settled by GLEIF, which gives BACRIT22 to Credito Emiliano and BITAITRR to Banca d'Italia rather than to the banks whose logos they carried.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Thirteen further marks are the bank's own but retired, or the parent group's lockup. They are recorded and held rather than removed, because replacing one needs the bank's current mark checked first.

  170. Corrected

    Twenty-nine banks that no longer operate were presented as live

    The result card had carried a Closed or Merged badge since June; the directory pages were built separately and never read the status column. Nothing compared the two surfaces, so a field that existed in the record went unrendered on the pages that get the search traffic.

    Affected
    29 directory rows, 58 pages (AT, BG, CH, CY, DE, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, KW, LV, NO, PT, RO, SI, TR) · /bank/skb-banka, /swift/skbasi2x, /bank/orange-bank, /bank/astrobank-cyprus, /bank/credit-suisse
    We showed
    A bank that had merged or closed kept a page identical to a live bank's. SKB banka, which merged into OTP banka Slovenija, read "SEPA member: Yes", offered an illustrative SKB banka IBAN, and answered "Is SKB banka a SEPA member?" with "Yes, so you can send and receive SEPA credit transfers". Orange Bank and AstroBank Cyprus did the same. The status was in our data the whole time and the detail pages simply never rendered it, so seven of the twenty-nine did not even say it in the bank name.
    Correct
    Both page types now open with a notice naming the status, the illustrative bank-specific IBAN is replaced by the generic country example, the SEPA badge is withdrawn, and the payment questions answer that the details should not be used for a new payment without confirming them with the beneficiary.
    Settled by
    The status values themselves, each set from the merger or closure record when the row was written: OTP banka Slovenija for SKB, Alpha Bank Cyprus for AstroBank, Banca Transilvania for OTP Bank Romania, UBS for Credit Suisse, and so on.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Surviving banks now also list the codes they replaced, so someone holding a code we retired can see where it went instead of being redirected in silence.

  171. Corrected

    Commerzbank AG Cologne linked to Deutsche Bank

    A single row written with the wrong domain. It survived because the drift gate compares the English name, which matched, and because nothing checked whether a stored website belongs to the bank on the row.

    Affected
    COBADEFF (DE) · /bank/commerzbank-ag-cologne, /swift/cobadeff
    We showed
    The Official website row for the Commerzbank AG Cologne record pointed at db.com, which is Deutsche Bank. Six sibling Commerzbank rows carried commerzbank.com, so which of the two a visitor saw depended on which row the lookup returned first.
    Correct
    commerzbank.com. The record's local name also regained the umlaut it had lost, Commerzbank Köln.
    Settled by
    The bank's own site, and the six sibling Commerzbank rows already holding it. Found by reading the page title behind every stored website: the title said Deutsche Bank.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026
  172. Corrected

    Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich carried a branch's address

    When the code was corrected in the engine tables the directory row was left on the old code. The drift gate looks a row up by its bank code, so a row whose code no longer exists in the tables is skipped entirely and every other field on it goes unchecked. One hundred and thirty-four rows were in that state.

    Affected
    RZOOAT2L (AT) · /bank/raiffeisenlandesbank-oo, /swift/rzooat2l
    We showed
    Austria's largest Raiffeisen regional bank was listed at Stadtplatz 17, 4230 Pregarten, which is a local branch address rather than the bank's own. The row also still carried bank code 31200, retired in favour of 34000 more than two months earlier.
    Correct
    Europaplatz 1a, 4020 Linz, and bank code 34000.
    Settled by
    GLEIF LEI I6SS27Q1Q3385V753S50 gives both the legal and the headquarters address as Europaplatz 1a, 4020 Linz. The OeNB SEPA directory and our own table both give 34000.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    The gate now reports rows whose bank code has left the tables, so the class cannot hide again.

  173. Corrected

    Three Official website links did not work

    Stored links were never re-checked after they were written. A bank moves its site, or drops http, and the link on our page quietly stops working.

    Affected
    three banks (AT, QA, TR) · /bank/tiroler-sparkasse, /bank/qatar-islamic-bank-qib, /bank/turkish-bank
    We showed
    Tiroler Sparkasse linked to a path on sparkasse.at that returns "Seite nicht gefunden". Qatar Islamic Bank linked to the http host, which returns a 404 while the https host serves the bank. Turkish Bank linked to turkishbank.com, which now redirects to a site titled Freedom Bank.
    Correct
    tirolersparkasse.at and https://www.qib.com.qa. Turkish Bank's website was cleared rather than replaced: turkishbank.co.uk is TurkishBank UK, a separate legal entity, and no current site for the Turkish entity could be verified.
    Settled by
    Each address was requested and its page title read.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    Whether the institution behind TUBATRIS is still named Turkish Bank A.Ş. is a separate open question: TCMB's 2026 participant list still carries that name.

  174. Corrected

    Three banks linked to another company's website

    The addresses came from an automated pass that matched a bank to a domain without confirming the page belonged to that bank. Two of the three also explain wrong logos removed the day before: the handball club's site is where Hypo NÖ's sponsorship mark came from, and the group's site is where Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich's RBI mark came from. A wrong domain is usually where a wrong logo came from.

    Affected
    three banks (NL, AT) · /bank/[slug], /swift/[bic]
    We showed
    The Official website row sent readers somewhere else. De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank, linked to devolksbank.nl, a commercial bank. Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich linked to rbinternational.com, which is the group rather than the member bank. Hypo NÖ linked to hypo-noe.at, which belongs to the handball club the bank sponsors, not to the bank.
    Correct
    dnb.nl, rlbooe.at and hyponoe.at, each confirmed by opening it and reading the page for the institution's own name. RLB NÖ-Wien, which had no website at all, gained rlbnoew.at.
    Settled by
    Each replacement was loaded and read: dnb.nl titles itself the central bank of the Netherlands, rlbooe.at resolves to the bank's own section, hyponoe.at titles itself HYPO NOE.
    Detected
    12 September 2026
    Corrected
    12 September 2026

    The corrected addresses took one more deploy to appear, because bank records are cached and the cache key had not been moved. Nothing else on those pages was affected.

  175. Corrected

    Rakbank was showing Apple's App Store badge, and sixteen more banks another company's mark

    A gate had been added for exactly this class, but it asked the wrong question. It inspected only files a Wikipedia matcher had picked, on the theory that a name matcher is what misfires. Rakbank's badge came from the bank's own homepage, where the only logo-shaped asset in the HTML is Apple's badge, so by the fetcher's logic it was a perfect hit and the gate never looked at it. Two hundred and thirty-three logos were being served that no person had ever confirmed.

    Affected
    eighteen banks across thirteen countries (several) · /swift/[bic], /bank/[slug], the IBAN result card
    We showed
    Rakbank's page carried Apple's "Download on the App Store" badge where the bank's logo belongs. Reading the same sweep out to every logo the earlier pass had not covered found sixteen more: BNP Paribas Fortis and Banque du Liban both carried Belfius, Banco Sabadell carried Santander, Crelan carried ING, Metro Bank carried Morgan Stanley, BankPozitif carried PTT, Eesti Pank carried Coop Pank, BluOr Bank carried Citadele, Magnetiq Bank carried Liechtensteinische Landesbank, SKB banka carried the Russian SKB-Bank, CEC Bank carried a Swiss savings bank, Bank of Georgia carried PASHA Bank, Dubai Islamic Bank carried a wordmark reading rabbit, Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich carried the group's own Raiffeisen Bank International, and two pages carried photographs rather than logos at all: Central Cooperative Bank a picture of people, Stadtsparkasse München a picture of a building. Two more came down because we could not confirm them: the National Bank of Georgia's emblem, which carries no wording to read, and Länsförsäkringar Bank, whose file names a regional company in the same federation rather than the bank.
    Correct
    No logo on those pages, until each bank's own mark can be sourced. Rakbank now carries the logo the bank publishes itself, in both the light and dark versions it serves. Everything else on these pages, the BIC, the name, the address and the scheme membership, was unaffected.
    Settled by
    Every one of those logos was rendered on both surfaces and read. Where a mark carries no wording, it was compared against the file the bank publishes on its own site, which is also what cleared two marks that looked wrong and were not: Deželna banka Slovenije genuinely brands itself DBS, and Bpifrance is what our directory holds that BIC to be.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    The gate now asks about every logo a visitor is actually shown, whatever picked it, and a file with no recorded human verdict fails the build. The review backlog is zero. One correction did not reach everyone on the day it was made: BNP Paribas Fortis and BankPozitif had their real marks written to the same addresses that had been serving Belfius and PTT, and those files are cached for thirty days, so anyone who had already opened those pages kept seeing the wrong bank until 12 September, when the addresses were versioned.

  176. Corrected

    Twenty-six banks were showing another organisation's logo

    The logos came from a matcher that searches Wikipedia by NAME, and a name is not an identity. It cannot tell a bank from the stadium it sponsors, from its trade association, or from a company that happens to share three letters. Nothing downstream caught it either: a logo is the one field on these pages that no audit reads, so every check stayed green while the wrong picture sat on the page.

    Affected
    twenty-six banks across seventeen countries (several) · /bank/bank-centercredit, /bank/landsbankinn, /bank/post-luxembourg, /bank/sydbank, /bank/tkyb, /bank/metro-bank, /bank/komercijalna-banka-ad-skopje
    We showed
    Someone else's mark. Bank CenterCredit carried the logo of PeoplesBank Arena, a sports venue. Landsbankinn carried the Iceland University of the Arts. POST Luxembourg carried the French embassy in Luxembourg. An Post Money carried a clipart money bag. Sydbank carried Sydbank Park, the football stadium it sponsors, and Hypo NÖ a handball team's sponsorship mark. TKYB carried TKBB, which is a trade association and not a bank. Banco BiG carried BiG TV, an Indonesian broadcaster. Metro Bank carried HabibMetro, BlueOrange carried Amalgamated Bank, Tokuda Bank carried Crédit Agricole, CIB carried Cominbank, Stadtsparkasse München carried DKB, Turkish Bank carried Burgan Bank, Bank of Georgia carried SunTrust, and Komercijalna Banka AD Skopje carried Komercijalna Banka AD Beograd, a different bank in a different country.
    Correct
    No logo on those pages, until each bank's own mark can be sourced. Everything else on them, the BIC, the name, the address and the scheme membership, was unaffected.
    Settled by
    Each file's own source title, which named the organisation outright and had been sitting unread in our fetch cache. Where a mark carries no wording, the bank's own published logo file was compared directly.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    Found by rendering every logo in the registry and reading it, not by comparing filenames. Four of these share a word with the bank they were filed under, so a name check passes them. All 800 logo files have now been reviewed one by one and each verdict recorded, and a new check refuses any logo that has not been vouched for.

  177. Corrected

    Six central banks carried a commercial bank's or an agency's mark

    Central banks are the worst case for a name matcher. Their names are generic, they share words with every commercial bank in the country, and their emblems are often close in style to a state coat of arms, so a search by name lands on a neighbour rather than the institution.

    Affected
    six central banks (EE, LV, LT, NL, GE, CY) · /bank/bank-of-estonia, /bank/latvijas-banka, /bank/bank-of-lithuania, /bank/de-nederlandsche-bank, /bank/central-bank-of-cyprus, /bank/national-bank-of-georgia
    We showed
    Eesti Pank carried Hansabank, a commercial bank that no longer exists. Latvijas Banka carried PNB Banka, whose licence was revoked in 2019. Lietuvos bankas carried Šiaulių bankas. De Nederlandsche Bank carried de Volksbank. The Central Bank of Cyprus carried Invest Cyprus, an investment promotion agency. The National Bank of Georgia carried the National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia.
    Correct
    No logo, until each institution's own mark can be sourced.
    Settled by
    Each file's own source title. Latvijas Banka is the clearest of them: the file was PNB Banka's, and PNB Banka's own entry was correct all along, so the mark was right and only the page it sat on was wrong.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    The Georgian case is worth naming plainly: the mark shown belonged to the central bank of a territory whose independence Georgia does not recognise. That is not a nuance a filename comparison can be expected to catch, which is the argument for looking.

  178. Corrected

    Bank Pekao's pages carried PKO Bank Polski's logo

    These are two separate Polish banks whose names and BICs are confused constantly: Bank Pekao is Bank Polska Kasa Opieki, PKOPPLPW; PKO Bank Polski is Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski, BPKOPLPW. Our routing tables keep them apart correctly. The logo did not, because it was matched by name, and the name is exactly where the two collide.

    Affected
    PKOPPLPW (PL) · /swift/pkopplpw, /bank/bank-pekao
    We showed
    The PKO Bank Polski mark, on both the SWIFT page and the bank page
    Correct
    No logo, until Bank Pekao's own mark can be sourced
    Settled by
    Our own Polish routing table, which carries each institution under its separate code, and PKO Bank Polski's mark as it appears on its own entry.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    Listed on its own rather than inside the sweep above, because of the two banks involved. A reader who checks a Pekao IBAN and sees PKO's mark has been handed the single most common confusion in Polish banking by the site that was supposed to resolve it.

  179. Corrected

    Six banks' logos had been cropped into unreadable slivers

    A pass we ran ourselves to strip empty margins from these files cut into the artwork instead. Nothing flagged it afterwards: the files were valid, the CDN served them, and their names matched the banks. Only the picture was wrong, and no check was reading the picture.

    Affected
    six marks, on eight pages (NL, GB, TR, HR, DK) · /bank/mufg-bank-amsterdam, /bank/mufg-bank-london, /bank/jpmorgan-chase, /bank/addiko-bank-croatia, /bank/revolut-uk
    We showed
    A fragment. MUFG in Amsterdam and London, JPMorgan Chase in Turkey, Addiko in Croatia, Nordea in Denmark and Revolut UK each showed a thin horizontal strip cut through the middle of the mark, or in MUFG's case a band roughly forty-six times wider than it was tall.
    Correct
    Each bank's full mark, restored from the untrimmed original
    Settled by
    The untrimmed originals, still held in our own fetch cache alongside the damaged copies.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    Each restored mark also gained a variant that stays readable on the dark theme, which four of the six had never had.

  180. Corrected

    Five cooperative network pages showed one member bank's logo

    An eight-character code such as GENODEF1 is the opening of 623 different banks' BICs and belongs to none of them. The logo was attached to the code as though it were an institution, so whichever member happened to be matched first lent its mark to the whole network.

    Affected
    five prefixes, covering over nine hundred banks between them (DE) · /swift/byladem1, /swift/heladef1, /swift/genodef1, /swift/genoded1, /swift/genodem1
    We showed
    BYLADEM1 showed DKB's mark, HELADEF1 showed Frankfurter Sparkasse's, GENODED1 and GENODEF1 showed a generic Volksbank mark over banks that are not Volksbanks, and GENODEM1 pointed at files that do not render at all.
    Correct
    No logo. These codes name a network, not a bank, and the pages say so.
    Settled by
    Our own shared-prefix rule, which already identifies these codes as networks in order to build the pages.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    The check that builds these pages now also refuses to let any logo be attached to a shared prefix.

  181. Corrected

    DNB's pages carried another organisation's logo

    The logo came from a Wikipedia match that returned a similarly named organisation. The names overlap enough that the file looked right, and until now nothing checked a logo against the institution it is filed under: a logo is the one field on these pages that no audit reads.

    Affected
    DNBANOKK (NO) · /swift/dnbanokk, /bank/dnb, /bank/dnb-bank-finland-branch
    We showed
    The Sparebankstiftelsen DNB mark, a foundation that holds a stake in the bank
    Correct
    DNB Bank ASA's own DNB wordmark
    Settled by
    The mark DNB serves in its own site header at dnb.no.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    Found because a reader recognised the wrong mark, not by a check of ours. Logos are now taken from the bank's own site wherever possible.

  182. Corrected

    CMCIBEB1 was shown as one bank, not the shared prefix it is

    The same shape as the German networks: an EPC-sourced row carried the eight-character group prefix as if it were one institution's BIC. Adding the Belgian register tail listed both banks under it and exposed the shared prefix.

    Affected
    CMCIBEB1 (BE) · /swift/cmcibeb1, /bank/banque-transatlantique-belgium
    We showed
    Banque Transatlantique Belgium, as though CMCIBEB1 were its own SWIFT code
    Correct
    CMCIBEB1 is shared: the NBB register assigns code 588 to Banque Transatlantique (CMCIBEB1BTB) and 667 to Crédit Industriel et Commercial Brussels (CMCIBEB1CIC), and the eight-character form belongs to neither on its own
    Settled by
    The NBB protocol list, which assigns 588 to Banque Transatlantique and 667 to CIC Brussels.
    Detected
    11 September 2026
    Corrected
    11 September 2026

    Banque Transatlantique now carries its own code CMCIBEB1BTB, and /swift/cmcibeb1 is the shared-prefix page listing both banks.

  183. Corrected

    Four Norwegian pages claimed a routing code that had moved to another bank

    Each bank was absorbed or merged, and its old code was reissued, but the rows kept claiming it. Sbanken and Nordnet still trade and simply hold no routing code any more; SpareBank 1 BV is gone into SpareBank 1 Sør-Norge; Sparebanken Sør merged into Sparebanken Norge and had two pages between them.

    Affected
    four rows (NO) · /bank/sbanken, /bank/sparebanken-sor, /bank/nordnet, /bank/sparebank-1-bv
    We showed
    Sbanken on 7874, Sparebanken Sør on 8380, Nordnet on 9860, SpareBank 1 BV on 0530
    Correct
    The register assigns 7874, 8380 and 0530 to DNB and 9860 to SpareBank 1 Østlandet
    Settled by
    The Bits AS Norwegian IBAN-BIC Table, sheet dated 8 September 2026, and each bank's own site, where sparebank1.no/nb/bv now redirects to Sør-Norge.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026

    Norway went from 11 codes to all 2,315 the register publishes in the same pass, so a Norwegian IBAN from a local savings bank now resolves at all.

  184. Corrected

    Most Finnish IBANs came back with no bank at all

    Finland's bank code is one to four digits, by a rule its register states outright, and we were taking a fixed three. The table held three-digit stand-ins such as 123 for Nordea, so only the handful of prefixes someone had written down ever resolved. Nordea's code is 1, OP's is 5, Ålandsbanken's is 6.

    Affected
    NDEAFIHH (FI) · /iban-format/fi, the checker
    We showed
    Nothing. A Nordea, OP, Ålandsbanken or Danske IBAN came back with no bank at all.
    Correct
    The bank, for every code the Finnish register publishes.
    Settled by
    Finanssiala, Suomalaiset rahalaitostunnukset ja BIC-koodit, 12 January 2026, which publishes both the codes and the length rule.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026

    15 stand-ins became 105 real codes. The register also lists SEB, DNB, Citibank, Bigbank, Saldo Bank and TrueLayer in Finland, none of which we carried.

  185. Corrected

    A Finnish routing code was recorded against the wrong bank

    A directory row had one of OP's stand-in codes recorded against a code the register assigns to Säästöpankit.

    Affected
    OKOYFIHH (FI) · /bank/op-financial-group
    We showed
    Code 402 as OP
    Correct
    Code 402 belongs to the savings banks group
    Settled by
    Finanssiala lists 402 under Säästöpankkien Keskuspankki, Säästöpankit ja Oma Säästöpankki, BIC ITELFIHH.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  186. Corrected

    BankPozitif was marked closed while it was trading

    We had the bank recorded as closed. It is a current participant in Turkey's payment system, so a real BankPozitif IBAN was answered with a closed badge on a live bank.

    Affected
    BKPTTRIS (TR) · /swift/bkpttris, /bank/bankpozitif
    We showed
    BankPozitif, marked closed
    Correct
    BankPozitif, trading
    Settled by
    The TCMB payment system participant list carries code 00142 as current.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  187. Corrected

    One BIC was carrying two different institutions

    A Turkish row claimed a bank code the central bank does not recognise, under RABONL2U, which is the Dutch parent's BIC and already belonged to a Rabobank row in the Netherlands. One BIC, two institutions.

    Affected
    RABONL2U (TR) · /swift/rabonl2u
    We showed
    Rabobank A.Ş. under Turkish bank code 00411
    Correct
    Removed. Rabobank A.Ş. is code 00137 and is now Hepsi Bank A.Ş.
    Settled by
    TCMB places Rabobank A.Ş. at code 00137 and records its rename to Hepsi Bank on 12 August 2026; GLEIF gives the Turkish entity its own BIC, RABOTRIS.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026

    The Dutch Rabobank page was the one being served, so no visitor saw the Turkish row. It was removed anyway: two institutions on one BIC is a page waiting to name the wrong bank.

  188. Corrected

    REYLCHGG named the wrong bank

    A rebrand we had not applied. REYL & Cie was absorbed into Intesa Sanpaolo's wealth arm and renamed.

    Affected
    REYLCHGG (CH) · /swift/reylchgg, /bank/reyl-et-cie-sa
    We showed
    REYL ET CIE S.A.
    Correct
    Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management SA
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the BIC to the new name; reyl.com redirects to intesasanpaolowm.ch.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  189. Corrected

    SOBKDEBB named the wrong bank

    A rebrand we had not applied. The company is Solaris SE and trades as Solaris.

    Affected
    SOBKDEBB (DE) · /swift/sobkdebb, /bank/solarisbank-ag
    We showed
    SOLARISBANK AG
    Correct
    Solaris
    Settled by
    GLEIF gives the legal name as Solaris SE; solarisbank.com redirects to solarisgroup.com.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026

    Our German routing table, built from the Bundesbank register, already said Solaris. The directory did not, and the directory is what the page shows.

  190. Corrected

    ATMNBE32 named the wrong bank

    An acquisition we had not applied. Deel acquired Atlantic Money and the European entity was renamed.

    Affected
    ATMNBE32 (BE) · /swift/atmnbe32, /bank/atlantic-money-nv
    We showed
    Atlantic Money NV
    Correct
    Deel Payments Europe
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the BIC to Deel Payments Europe; atlanticmoney.com is now a domain for sale; the acquisition is on Deel's own site.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  191. Corrected

    MAFRQAQA named the wrong bank

    A rebrand we had not applied.

    Affected
    MAFRQAQA (QA) · /swift/mafrqaqa, /bank/masraf-al-rayan
    We showed
    Masraf Al Rayan
    Correct
    Al Rayan Bank
    Settled by
    GLEIF gives the legal name as AlRayan Bank Q.P.S.C; the bank's own site at alrayan.com is titled Al Rayan Bank.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  192. Corrected

    SHEDNO22 named the wrong bank

    A rebrand we had not applied. Sparebanken Hedmark took the SpareBank 1 Østlandet name.

    Affected
    SHEDNO22 (NO) · /swift/shedno22, /bank/sparebanken-hedmark
    We showed
    SPAREBANKEN HEDMARK
    Correct
    SpareBank 1 Østlandet
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the BIC to SpareBank 1 Østlandet; sparebanken-hedmark.no redirects to sparebank1.no.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026

    The address keeps its old wording on purpose. A rename does not make it a different bank, and a stable URL is worth more than a tidy one.

  193. Corrected

    ICRAITRR named the wrong bank

    A central institution's BIC was carrying the name of one of the banks that settle under it. Hundreds of Italian cooperative banks use this BIC, and the participant register lists the participant rather than the code's owner.

    Affected
    ICRAITRR (IT) · /swift/icraitrr, /bank/bcc-di-altofonte-e-caccamo
    We showed
    B.C.C. DI ALTOFONTE E CACCAMO
    Correct
    Iccrea Banca
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the BIC to Iccrea Banca; iccreabanca.it confirms the institution.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  194. Corrected

    CCRTIT2T named the wrong bank

    The same shape as ICRAITRR: a central institution's BIC labelled with one of its member banks.

    Affected
    CCRTIT2T (IT) · /swift/ccrtit2t, /bank/banca-360-credito-cooperativo-fvg-societa-cooperativa
    We showed
    Banca 360 Credito Cooperativo FVG
    Correct
    Cassa Centrale Banca
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the BIC to Cassa Centrale Banca; cassacentrale.it confirms the institution.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  195. Corrected

    RBABCH22 named the wrong bank

    The same shape again. Entris provides settlement for smaller Swiss banks, and one of them had taken the name on the BIC's page.

    Affected
    RBABCH22 (CH) · /swift/rbabch22, /bank/bank-bsu-genossenschaft
    We showed
    Bank BSU Genossenschaft
    Correct
    Entris Banking AG
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the BIC to Entris Banking AG; entris-banking.ch confirms the institution.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  196. Corrected

    CECAESMM named the wrong bank

    The same shape again, in Spain.

    Affected
    CECAESMM (ES) · /swift/cecaesmm, /bank/caja-de-ahorros-y-mp-de-ontinyent
    We showed
    CAJA DE AHORROS Y M.P. DE ONTINYENT
    Correct
    Cecabank
    Settled by
    GLEIF registers the BIC to Cecabank SA; cecabank.es confirms the institution.
    Detected
    10 September 2026
    Corrected
    10 September 2026
  197. Corrected

    Seven German network prefixes were each named after one of their members

    A directory row held the bare prefix as if it were its own BIC. Because BIC lookup falls back from an exact match to the first eight characters, all 114 banks under WELADED1 resolved to that one page and were answered with one savings bank's address and scheme badges.

    Affected
    seven prefixes, one of them shared by 114 banks (DE) · /swift/weladed1, /swift/genodes1, and five more
    We showed
    WELADED1 as Erzgebirgssparkasse, and the same shape for GENODES1, NOLADE21, SOLADES1, MALADE51, BRLADE21 and SALADE51
    Correct
    None of them is a bank's BIC. Each is a network prefix, and every member has its own eleven-character code.
    Settled by
    The Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen register, which never lists any of those prefixes as an actual BIC.
    Detected
    9 September 2026
    Corrected
    9 September 2026

    A prefix page now says whose network it is and lists the members, rather than picking one of them.

  198. Corrected

    Five Austrian Raiffeisen prefixes named a local member instead of the network

    The same shape as the German networks: a participant register lists the participant, and the participant's name landed on the network's BIC.

    Affected
    five prefixes (AT) · /swift/rvsaat2s, /swift/rztiat22, and three more
    We showed
    RVSAAT2S as Raiffeisenbank Kuchl-St. Koloman, RZTIAT22 as Raiffeisen Bank Going, and three more of the same kind
    Correct
    The four Landesbanks that own those prefixes, with each member moved to its own eleven-character code
    Settled by
    The OeNB SEPA-Verzeichnis, which gives each member its own eleven-character code.
    Detected
    9 September 2026
    Corrected
    9 September 2026
  199. Corrected

    Three French institutions were tangled across each other's pages

    Bank code 10278 pointed at CIC's BIC for every Crédit Mutuel IBAN, and the three entities shared names and addresses across rows.

    Affected
    three institutions, five rows (FR) · /swift/cmcifrpp, /bank/banque-federative-du-credit-mutuel
    We showed
    /swift/cmcifrpp as Crédit Mutuel, and a page titled CIC living at the address of Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel
    Correct
    CMCIFRPP is Crédit Industriel et Commercial, CMCIFRPA is BFCM, and Crédit Mutuel's own code resolves to CMCIFR2A
    Settled by
    GLEIF for each BIC's registered owner, cross-checked with Wise.
    Detected
    9 September 2026
    Corrected
    9 September 2026
  200. Corrected

    Five directory rows carried a routing code belonging to another bank

    The rows kept the code they had before the tables were corrected against the national registers, and nothing compared the directory against a register until this pass existed.

    Affected
    five rows (AT, HU, BE, CH) · /bank/oberbank, /bank/belfius, and three more
    We showed
    Oberbank on 18400, Hypo NÖ on 43000, CIB on 108, Belfius on 196, Credit Suisse on 00765
    Correct
    Every one of those codes belongs to a different institution
    Settled by
    The OeNB, MNB, NBB and SIX registers.
    Detected
    9 September 2026
    Corrected
    9 September 2026
  201. Corrected

    Eight retired addresses were sending people to a competitor

    A row can only remember one retired address, so when a row was renamed twice the second address overwrote the first or parked itself on an unrelated row.

    Affected
    eight addresses (BE, AT, FI, MT, HU, NO) · /bank/keytrade-bank, /bank/crelan, and six more
    We showed
    /bank/keytrade-bank answered with ING Belgium, /bank/crelan with KBC, /bank/zkb with Valiant, /bank/s-pankki with OP, and four more
    Correct
    Each address now points at the bank whose name it carries, or returns nothing
    Settled by
    Crawling the sitemap as it stood before each change, and matching every retired address against the institution it names.
    Detected
    9 September 2026
    Corrected
    9 September 2026

    Sending someone to the wrong bank is worse than a missing page, so an address with nowhere correct to go now returns nothing at all.

  202. Corrected

    Eight banks had two directory pages each

    Leftovers from earlier imports: the BIC used as if it were a routing code, and two invented aliases that had already been removed from the tables but not from the directory.

    Affected
    eight banks (IT, FR, GB, NL) · /bank/banca-mediolanum, and seven more
    We showed
    Two pages for the same institution, one of them keyed on something that is not a routing code
    Correct
    One page per bank, on its real domestic code
    Settled by
    Our own tables, cross-checked against the national registers.
    Detected
    9 September 2026
    Corrected
    9 September 2026
  203. Corrected

    Ten Turkish BICs did not exist

    The suffix had been guessed rather than sourced. An invented BIC round-trips perfectly against our own tables, so no internal check could ever see it.

    Affected
    ten BICs (TR) · /swift/aktbtr2a, /swift/altbtris, and eight more
    We showed
    AKTBTR2A, ALTBTRIS, BOTKTR2A, INGBTR2A, CITITRIS, HSBCTR2A and four more
    Correct
    The real codes, each confirmed in at least two independent directories
    Settled by
    GLEIF, then Wise for the ones GLEIF could not place, then theswiftcodes, bank.codes, XTransfer and Remitly for each survivor.
    Detected
    7 September 2026
    Corrected
    7 September 2026

    Our own pages were appearing in search results carrying the invented codes, which is the sharpest version of the problem: we were the ones publishing them. Eleven more of the same kind were corrected on 4 September.

  204. Corrected

    Fourteen banks were listed under names they had stopped using

    Bank names decay quietly. Nothing re-checked a name after it was written down.

    Affected
    fourteen banks (several) · /bank/leaseplan, /bank/seba-bank, and twelve more
    We showed
    LeasePlan, SEBA, Varengold, BMCE International, Banque des Caraïbes and nine more
    Correct
    Ayvens Bank, AMINA, Ascory, Bank of Africa UK, CCF and the rest
    Settled by
    GLEIF, using the test that separates a rename from a brand choice: after an entity is renamed GLEIF keeps the previous legal name in its other-names list.
    Detected
    7 September 2026
    Corrected
    7 September 2026

    Halifax and Virgin Money are deliberately not in that list. GLEIF has never carried those as former names, so those are our brand choices rather than stale data.

  205. Corrected

    Three BICs were registered to a different entity than we said

    A brand had taken the parent institution's BIC page, and a London label sat on a Belfast entity whose own address we were already showing.

    Affected
    three banks (GB, BE, DE) · /swift/dabagb2b, /bank/fintro, /swift/scfbde33
    We showed
    DABAGB2B as Danske Bank London, GEBABEBB as the Fintro brand, SCFBDE33 as Santander Consumer Bank
    Correct
    Northern Bank Limited of Belfast, BNP Paribas Fortis, and Openbank Deutschland AG trading as Santander
    Settled by
    GLEIF for each registered owner, plus each bank's own site.
    Detected
    7 September 2026
    Corrected
    7 September 2026
  206. Corrected

    German branch pages showed their head office's address

    An address-enrichment pass wrote group head-office addresses onto sibling rows. The name was right and the address was a real address, so only a reader comparing the two lines would see it.

    Affected
    33 rows (DE) · /bank/deutsche-bank-ag-hamburg, and 32 more
    We showed
    A page named Deutsche Bank AG Hamburg giving an address in Frankfurt
    Correct
    The city the register gives for that routing code
    Settled by
    The Bundesbank Bankleitzahlen register, which publishes a city per code.
    Detected
    4 September 2026
    Corrected
    4 September 2026

    Where the stored street belonged to a different city, street and postal code were cleared rather than replaced. The register publishes no street to put there, and an invented address is worse than none.

  207. Corrected

    The directory was serving names the tables had already corrected

    Earlier passes rewrote the curated tables from official registries but pushed only the BIC changes to the directory. The checker resolved an IBAN to the right bank and then linked to a page naming a different one.

    Affected
    89 rows across a dozen countries (several) · /bank/crelan, /bank/seb-pank, and 87 more
    We showed
    Sixteen Belgian prefixes on the wrong bank, SEB and Swedbank swapped in Estonia, and pre-correction names elsewhere
    Correct
    The names and codes the national registers give
    Settled by
    The national registers each table had been rebuilt from, with GLEIF as the arbiter where the two sides disagreed.
    Detected
    4 September 2026
    Corrected
    4 September 2026

    The gate whose absence allowed this now runs after every change, and compares the whole BIC rather than its first eight characters.

  208. Corrected

    Five British and Irish bank codes could never appear in a real IBAN

    The codes had been written as friendly abbreviations rather than taken from the BIC, so no genuine IBAN could ever carry them.

    Affected
    five codes (GB, IE) · the checker, /bank/clydesdale-bank
    We showed
    SANT for Santander, WEST for Nationwide, COPE for the Co-operative Bank, VIRG for Virgin Money, FTBK for an AIB brand
    Correct
    A British or Irish bank code is the first four characters of the institution's BIC: ABBY, NAIA, CPBK, CLYD and AIBK
    Settled by
    GLEIF, Wise, theswiftcodes and bank.codes, none of which list a BIC beginning with any of the five.
    Detected
    18 July 2026
    Corrected
    18 July 2026

    An Irish typo went with them: CITAIE2X, which exists nowhere, for Citibank Europe's CITIIE2X.

  209. Corrected

    Mongolian bank codes were taken from aggregators, and the aggregators were wrong

    Mongolia's central bank does not publish the mapping, so it had been taken from third-party directories that agree with each other and are wrong.

    Affected
    eighteen codes (MN) · the checker, /bank/khan-bank
    We showed
    Khan Bank on code 0050, which actually belongs to a non-bank financial institution
    Correct
    Khan Bank is 0005, and the rest come from the same authoritative source
    Settled by
    The account-to-IBAN converter published by a Mongolian bank itself, whose code list feeds straight into the IBAN it builds.
    Detected
    28 June 2026
    Corrected
    28 June 2026
  210. Corrected

    Valid IBANs from Azerbaijan and Yemen were being rejected

    Our structure rules were stricter than the standard's. A rule that is too strict cannot be caught by testing against our own examples, because our examples matched our own rule.

    Affected
    two country formats (AZ, YE) · the checker, /iban-format/az, /iban-format/ye
    We showed
    An invalid-format error on IBANs that are correct
    Correct
    Both countries allow letters where we required digits
    Settled by
    The SWIFT IBAN Registry, version 101.
    Detected
    22 June 2026
    Corrected
    22 June 2026
  211. Corrected

    The Dutch central bank's BIC was labelled as a retail bank

    A single wrong label, found only by asking an outside register rather than ourselves.

    Affected
    FLORNL2A (NL) · /swift/flornl2a, /bank/de-volksbank
    We showed
    de Volksbank N.V.
    Correct
    De Nederlandsche Bank N.V., the central bank
    Settled by
    GLEIF, cross-checked with theswiftcodes, Wise and bank.codes.
    Detected
    22 June 2026
    Corrected
    22 June 2026

    de Volksbank's own retail IBANs were never affected: they sit under SNSBNL2A.

  212. Corrected

    The Serbian routing table was shuffled and carried invented BICs

    The same shape found across a dozen tables in June: a domestic code table built without an authority behind it.

    Affected
    ten codes (RS) · the checker, /bank/otp-banka-srbija
    We showed
    Codes on the wrong banks, and three BICs that exist nowhere
    Correct
    The codes the National Bank of Serbia publishes, on rows that already held the real BICs
    Settled by
    The NBS register of bank identification numbers, cross-checked with each bank's own SWIFT code.
    Detected
    15 June 2026
    Corrected
    15 June 2026
  213. Corrected

    A North Macedonian code named a bank that is not licensed there

    A shuffled table, with BIC forms that were wrong as well as misplaced.

    Affected
    five rows (MK) · /bank/stopanska-banka, and four more
    We showed
    Code 200 as UniCredit Bank North Macedonia, with Stopanska and NLB on the wrong codes
    Correct
    No UniCredit bank is licensed in North Macedonia. The BIC on that row belonged to a representative office, not a bank.
    Settled by
    The NBRM leading-numbers register, plus each bank's own IBAN and site.
    Detected
    14 June 2026
    Corrected
    14 June 2026
  214. Corrected

    A Revolut BIC was labelled as the Irish branch of a Lithuanian bank

    Branch and alias BICs had been read as separate institutions in separate countries.

    Affected
    five rows (LT, IE) · /swift/revolt21, /bank/revolut-ireland
    We showed
    REVOLT21 as Revolut Ireland, in Dublin
    Correct
    REVOLT21 is Revolut Bank UAB's head office in Vilnius. It and RVUALT2V are alias BICs of the same Lithuanian bank.
    Settled by
    The Bank of Lithuania's licensed-institution register.
    Detected
    14 June 2026
    Corrected
    14 June 2026
  215. Corrected

    UAE routing codes were on the wrong banks

    The UAE code is the second to fourth digit of the account's routing field, and the table had been built without that settled.

    Affected
    eleven banks (AE) · the checker, /tools/ae-account-to-iban
    We showed
    First Abu Dhabi Bank, Emirates NBD, Mashreq, ADCB, Dubai Islamic and ADIB each under a code belonging to another
    Correct
    The codes the central bank's list gives
    Settled by
    The Central Bank of the UAE list, cross-checked with live IBANs from each bank.
    Detected
    14 June 2026
    Corrected
    14 June 2026
  216. Corrected

    Five banks were listed under names they had stopped using, and four BICs were invented

    Renames that had happened between one and three years earlier, and in four cases the BIC we carried for the bank did not exist at all.

    Affected
    nine banks (UA, NL, LT, KZ, SI) · /bank/alfa-bank-ukraine, /bank/nova-kbm, and seven more
    We showed
    Alfa-Bank Ukraine, Credit Europe Bank, Šiaulių bankas, Jusan Bank, Nova KBM
    Correct
    Sense Bank, Nexent Bank, Artea, Alatau City Bank, OTP banka
    Settled by
    Each bank's own announcement, the Bank of Lithuania register, Banco Santander's SEC filing, and SWIFT directories.
    Detected
    11 June 2026
    Corrected
    11 June 2026
  217. Corrected

    Four national bank-code tables were shuffled from end to end

    The tables had been assembled without an authority behind them, and an internal audit cannot see this: a wrong code that maps consistently to a wrong bank round-trips perfectly against itself.

    Affected
    four countries (FR, IT, PT, IS) · the checker, /iban-format/fr, /iban-format/it, /iban-format/pt, /iban-format/is
    We showed
    In France, 30002 as BNP when it is LCL, 20041 as Banque Populaire when it is La Banque Postale, 10278 as the central bank when it is Crédit Mutuel. Italy, Portugal and Iceland were each wrong in the same way.
    Correct
    The tables the national authorities publish
    Settled by
    Banque de France references, the Italian ABI tables, Banco de Portugal's own IBAN list, and the Icelandic range table.
    Detected
    11 June 2026
    Corrected
    11 June 2026

    This is the error that started the whole registry programme. Every national register wired into the audit since exists because of it.

  218. Corrected

    A registry sweep corrected codes, names and BICs across 35 countries

    The same absence of an authority that shuffled the French and Italian tables, checked country by country once the pattern was clear.

    Affected
    48 corrections (35 countries) · the checker, /iban-format
    We showed
    Wrong codes and BICs in Switzerland, the UAE, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Malta, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Greece, Croatia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechia and Germany
    Correct
    What each country's own authority publishes
    Settled by
    SIX, OeNB, Bits, Finanssiala, the Swedish, Belgian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Greek, Estonian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish and Cypriot registers, the Turkish and Emirati central bank lists, and live IBAN samples.
    Detected
    11 June 2026
    Corrected
    11 June 2026

    Eighteen example IBANs published across the site were invalid as well, and were recomputed.