Iternational clearing code

[fastcarl]

Are there any bankers present,the ones that deal in money, you don't have to admit to it in the current climate so you can pretend to be a hypothetical friend.

i am trying to have some money sent from northern europe, , the person is doing all the trans on line and the monies have been returned to him twice,[its now becoming slightly annoying] he has shown me a screen dump with a box and heading "international clearing code,"
iv'e never heard of this term and neither has my building society,iv'e had smoney sent previously no bother using the normal iban.swift addreesses etc, but theres obviously some confusion over this internationll clearing code,

can anyone shed any light on this saga,

many thanks

carl

[flemke]

I am happy to say that I am not a banker (all my friends are hypothetical anyhow), and in any case I do not know all the details, but not all banks clear internationally.
Assuming that the IBAN he's using is correct, it may be that the website thingy through which he is trying to send the funds would normally use an agent bank for cross-border transfers, and therefore his instructions lack his website bank's clearing bank details. It is also possible that your bank uses an international agent, but previous, successful transactions were done by a human banker who knew to take the extra step of looking up the identity of its agent, and thus did not have to ask you for the details.

[anonymous-user]

I am! There I said it! (dons flame suit).

Could he be asking for your bank's BIC, which is often called a SWIFT? He may need both to start the process, from these details "he should" be able to credit your account (even if there are correspondance banks along the way).