A bank clearing number or BC number is a number used for the identification of financial institutions in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Bank clearing numbers are connected to the Swiss Interbank Clearing and theEuroSIC system.
Bank clearing numbers consists of 3 to 5 digits. To identify a particular branch of a financial institution clearly, a store ID is specified in addition to the bank clearing number.
The first digit of the bank clearing number represents the institution:
| Digit | Institute |
|---|---|
| 1 | Swiss National Bank |
| 2 | UBS AG |
| 3 | reserved |
| 4 | Credit Suisse Group AG |
| 5 | Neue Aargauer Bank |
| 6 | Regionalbanken der RBA-Holding AG |
| 7 | Cantonal bank |
| 8 | Raiffeisen (Switzerland) |
| 9 | PostFinance |