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HBUKGB5P BIC/SWIFT code

Identify HSBC PRIVATE BANK (UK) LTD in London, United Kingdom, and understand every part of this bank identifier.

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Primary office
London

BIC/SWIFT record

HBUKGB5P

HSBC PRIVATE BANK (UK) LTD

GB Country

XXX Branch

Record overview

Institution and branch details

Financial institution: HSBC PRIVATE BANK (UK) LTD
Branch: Primary office
City: London
Country: United Kingdom (GB)
Address: 62-72 PARK STREET, SE1 9DZ

Code anatomy

What does HBUKGB5P mean?

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

HBUK 01

Institution code

Identifies HSBC PRIVATE BANK (UK) LTD.

GB 02

Country code

ISO code for United Kingdom.

5P 03

Location code

Identifies the institution’s location.

XXX 04

Branch code

Omitted or XXX indicates the primary office.

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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/HBUKGB5P' \
    --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/HBUKGB5P', [
    '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/HBUKGB5P"

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/HBUKGB5P';
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/HBUKGB5P', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));