ISO 20022 · Person identification

BANKBank Party Identification

Registered in sourceSource release: August 2026 (v3)

Published definition

Unique and unambiguous assignment made by a specific bank or similar financial institution to identify a relationship as defined between the bank and its client.

Code set and usage

Person identification contains 11 registered codes. Its exact identifier is ExternalPersonIdentification1Code.

Specifies the external person identification scheme name code in the format of character string with a maximum length of 4 characters. The list of valid codes is an external code list published separately. External code sets can be downloaded from www.iso20022.org.

Use the code with the applicable message version and implementation guide. A matching code value alone does not establish the same meaning in another set.

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This code in other sets 2

These share the characters BANK. Their meanings belong to their respective sets.