reliable way to validate IBAN/BIC in java

Question

Does anyone know of a reliable way to validate International Bank Account Number (IBAN) and Bank Identifier Code (BIC) in java?

Rephrased the original question. I'm no longer using the dreadful word "library", which caused the question to be closed as off-topic — tehvan, Dec 11 '14 at 10:57

Milanka · Answer 1 · 2021-04-06T08:04:26.627

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Apache Commons Validator has IBAN validation (since version 1.4)

Home page: http://commons.apache.org/validator/

Javadoc: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/apidocs/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/checkdigit/IBANCheckDigit.html

Maven dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
  <version>1.7</version>
</dependency>

Edit: Updated javadoc link.

edited Apr 06 '21 at 08:04

answered Aug 16 '12 at 06:53

Milanka

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The correct link to the javadoc is:http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/javadocs/api-1.4.0/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/checkdigit/IBANCheckDigit.html – drame Oct 20 '14 at 06:46

score 16 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 27 '20 at 19:21

Apache Commons Validator is good for IBAN validation, but lacks BBAN structure validation (as specified in IBAN registry).

I have just released a library, named jbanking, that might suits your need. It contains routines for both IBAN and BIC validation. You can find it on github (https://github.com/marcwrobel/jbanking).

But note that you cannot have a reliable BIC / IBAN validation without using the IBAN Plus Directory (formely known as the BICplusIBAN Directory) and the Bank directory Plus (formely known as the BIC directory). Both are provided and regularly updated by SWIFT which is the BIC / IBAN registrar. Unfortunately those directories are not available for free.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '09 at 07:09

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These might be worth a look:

http://soastation.googlepages.com/iban-checkdigit-src.jar

http://developers.sun.com/docs/javacaps/designing/capsswftintprj.ghfyv.html

answered Jun 15 '09 at 07:09

Brandon E Taylor

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Brandon, your first link works fine (just downloads a jar file with no copyright etc, is this what you intended?) The second link though, is broken. Looks like Oracle doesn't like it much. – Johan May 17 '11 at 08:46

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 15 '13 at 17:12

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iban4j might be good choice for IBAN validation.

home page: https://github.com/arturmkrtchyan/iban4j

Maven dependency:

<dependency>
      <groupId>org.iban4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>iban4j</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

answered Dec 15 '13 at 17:12

Artur Mkrtchyan

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Hello, I just reviewed and finally decided to use your library. Nice work and simple API. Many thanks for sharing! – javapapo Jun 27 '14 at 18:23
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what should be my motivation NOT to use Apache IBAN Validator, if I only want to validate IBAN? – gursahib.singh.sahni Apr 25 '19 at 18:07
Above library is outdated, another alternative is https://github.com/barend/java-iban – Sahil Chhabra Feb 24 '20 at 10:55

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 24 '13 at 12:55

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This is a library of utilities to assist with developing banking functionality. https://github.com/marcwrobel/jbanking

answered Oct 24 '13 at 12:55

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 01 '13 at 16:07

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This library provides an IBAN class supporting BBAN structure validation.

http://www.jdtaus.org/ISO-13616/current/index.html

answered Oct 01 '13 at 16:07

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reliable way to validate IBAN/BIC in java

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