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PARBGB2L BIC/SWIFT code

Identify BNP PARIBAS in London, United Kingdom, and understand every part of this bank identifier.

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Primary office
London

BIC/SWIFT record

PARBGB2L

BNP PARIBAS

GB Country

XXX Branch

Record overview

Institution and branch details

Financial institution: BNP PARIBAS
Branch: London (Clients)
City: London
Country: United Kingdom (GB)
Address: MARYLEBONE GATE, 10 HAREWOOD AVENUE, NW1 6AA

Code anatomy

What does PARBGB2L mean?

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

PARB 01

Institution code

Identifies BNP PARIBAS.

GB 02

Country code

ISO code for United Kingdom.

2L 03

Location code

Identifies the institution’s location.

XXX 04

Branch code

Omitted or XXX indicates the primary office.

Built for developers

Validate PARBGB2L
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/PARBGB2L' \
    --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/PARBGB2L', [
    '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/PARBGB2L"

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/PARBGB2L';
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/PARBGB2L', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));