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HLFXGB21U16 BIC/SWIFT code

Identify HALIFAX (A TRADING NAME OF BANK OF in St. Helens, United Kingdom, and understand every part of this bank identifier.

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Branch identifier
St. Helens

BIC/SWIFT record

HLFXGB21U16

HALIFAX (A TRADING NAME OF BANK OF

GB Country

U16 Branch

Record overview

Institution and branch details

Financial institution: HALIFAX (A TRADING NAME OF BANK OF
Branch: Branch U16
City: St. Helens
Country: United Kingdom (GB)
Address: 14 CHURCH SQUARE

Code anatomy

What does HLFXGB21U16 mean?

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

HLFX 01

Institution code

Identifies HALIFAX (A TRADING NAME OF BANK OF.

GB 02

Country code

ISO code for United Kingdom.

21 03

Location code

Identifies the institution’s location.

U16 04

Branch code

Identifies this specific branch.

Built for developers

Validate HLFXGB21U16
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/HLFXGB21U16' \
    --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/HLFXGB21U16', [
    '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/HLFXGB21U16"

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/HLFXGB21U16';
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/HLFXGB21U16', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

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