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MIDLGB2116B BIC/SWIFT code

Identify HSBC BANK PLC in ACCRINGTON, United Kingdom, and understand every part of this bank identifier.

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BIC/SWIFT record
MIDLGB2116B

HSBC BANK PLC

GB Country
16B Branch
Record overview

Institution and branch details

Financial institution
HSBC BANK PLC
Branch
Branch 16B
City
ACCRINGTON
Country
United Kingdom (GB)
Address
8 CANADA SQUARE LONDON E145HQ UNITED, BB5 1JP
Code anatomy

What does MIDLGB2116B mean?

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

MIDL 01

Institution code

Identifies HSBC BANK PLC.

GB 02

Country code

ISO code for United Kingdom.

21 03

Location code

Identifies the institution’s location.

16B 04

Branch code

Identifies this specific branch.

Built for developers

Validate MIDLGB2116B
through the API

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

curl 'https://api.fincodesapi.com/v2/bic/MIDLGB2116B' \
    --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/MIDLGB2116B', [
    '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/MIDLGB2116B"

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/MIDLGB2116B';
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/MIDLGB2116B', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));