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GET /v1/bic

Validate & parse a SWIFT/BIC

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api.oanor.com/financialid-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/financialid-api/v1/bic" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/financialid-api/v1/bic", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/financialid-api/v1/bic");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/financialid-api/v1/bic",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "bic": "DEUTDEFF",
        "type": "primary office (BIC8)",
        "valid": true,
        "length": 8,
        "passive": false,
        "test_bic": false,
        "bank_code": "DEUT",
        "connected": true,
        "branch_code": null,
        "country_code": "DE",
        "location_code": "FF"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-03T17:42:09.191Z",
        "request_id": "3d26226c-a433-4274-9dad-9761145bbc14"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "BIC",
    "success": true
}