IBAN numbers and SWIFT codes will be essential for all payments and receipts from February 2014
Monday, November 18, 2013 @ 12:01 PM
TO make any financial transactions involving bank account numbers, an IBAN number will be necessary from February onwards.
This includes payments made to or to be received from accounts within the same country – no longer just from abroad.
In Spain, IBAN numbers start with the letters ES, whilst in the United Kingdom they start with GB, and are followed by two numbers, which identify which bank the account is held in.
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