ValidateIBAN service

You use the ValidateIBAN service to check that the supplied IBAN is in the correct format and that the account could exist. This also validates the BBAN, created by decomposing the IBAN.

To validate the IBAN, all you need to supply is the IBAN.

This service returns:

country - 2 character ISO country code
conditions - all errors, warnings and information messages returned by Bank Wizard, these show whether the validation was successful
BBAN - between 1 and 5 fields containing the domestic account details decomposed from the IBAN

data access key - you must pass this to Bank Wizard to retrieve any of the Bank Wizard data.

Example SOAP messages

Request

<soapenv:Body>

<ban:ValidateIBANRequest language="en" reportString="1123" itemisationID="555">PT500035013100000457893467</ban:ValidateIBANRequest>

</soapenv:Body>

Response

<soap:Body>

<BBANindex="4" description="Check digits" xmlns="http://experianpayments.com/bankwizard/xsd/2009/07">67</BBAN>

<condition severity="warning" code="20" xmlns="http://experianpayments.com/bankwizard/common/xsd/2009/09">Branch is not SEPA compliant for Direct Debits (DD)</condition>

</conditions>

</ValidateIBANResponse>

</soap:Body>