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BOFIGB3L BIC/SWIFT code

Identify BANK OF IRELAND (FIRST CURRENCY SERVICES) in London, United Kingdom, and understand every part of this bank identifier.

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Primary office
London

BIC/SWIFT record

BOFIGB3L

BANK OF IRELAND (FIRST CURRENCY SERVICES)

GB Country

XXX Branch

Record overview

Institution and branch details

Financial institution: BANK OF IRELAND (FIRST CURRENCY SERVICES)
Branch: Primary office
City: London
Country: United Kingdom (GB)
Address: BOW BELLS HOUSE, 1 BREAD STREET, EC4M 9BE

Code anatomy

What does BOFIGB3L mean?

A BIC is built from an institution code, country code, location code and an optional branch code.

BOFI 01

Institution code

Identifies BANK OF IRELAND (FIRST CURRENCY SERVICES).

GB 02

Country code

ISO code for United Kingdom.

3L 03

Location code

Identifies the institution’s location.

XXX 04

Branch code

Omitted or XXX indicates the primary office.

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Validate BOFIGB3L
through the API

Retrieve this BIC as structured JSON for onboarding, payment routing or data-quality workflows.

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curl 'https://api.fincodesapi.com/v2/bic/BOFIGB3L' \
    --header 'X-Api-Key: your-api-key-here' \
    --header 'Accept: application/json'

# INSTALLATION
$ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

# REQUEST
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.fincodesapi.com/v2/bic/BOFIGB3L', [
    'headers' => [
        'Accept' => 'application/json',
        'X-Api-Key' => 'your-api-key-here',
    ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

# INSTALLATION
$ python -m pip install requests

# REQUEST
import requests

url = "https://api.fincodesapi.com/v2/bic/BOFIGB3L"

headers = {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key-here"
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

# INSTALLATION
$ npm install node-fetch --save

// REQUEST
import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const url = 'https://api.fincodesapi.com/v2/bic/BOFIGB3L';
const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'X-Api-Key': 'your-api-key-here'
  }
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error('error:' + err));

const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'X-Api-Key': 'your-api-key-here'
  }
};

fetch('https://api.fincodesapi.com/v2/bic/BOFIGB3L', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));