You don’t have to populate the BIC when you have the IBAN and rely on enrichment instead. It’s particularly relevant for SEPA transfers and local currency transfers in countries like CZ, DK, NO.
Note on our the prioritization of BIC enrichment from the IBAN
There are two types of BICs typically associated with the IBAN: SEPA BIC (can be generalized as IBAN BIC for cases when the country is not in SEPA), for example, REVOGB21, and ROUTING BIC, like REVOGB2L.We default to the IBAN BIC in the Enrichment endpoint, unless there’s a linked BIC (ROUTING BIC) for the relevant record in the banking directory that has a better chance of payment success thanks to the explicit mention of the support of the selected currency through correspondents.
You can completely avoid asking your users for intermediary BICs and rely on our API instead. Just populate the currency to get the intermediary banks accurately. You should typically indicate the last intermediary BIC (out of 3) in your payment instructions to partners.POST /payments/enrichments
You can enrich bank identifiers with information about their supported settlement systems.
This helps you understand which schemes are available for a specific bank, enabling better routing decisions and user experience.POST /payments/enrichments