El Salvador IBAN
28 characters: the country code, two check digits, then the BBAN cut as below.
Anatomy of the official example
SV62CENR00000000000000700025
- Country code
- Check digits
- Bank code
- Account number
The example comes from the ISO 13616 registry; it belongs to nobody. Positions count from the first character of the IBAN.
| ISO code | SV |
|---|---|
| Length | 28 characters |
| Check digits | positions 3 to 4, ISO 7064 mod 97-10 |
| Bank code | positions 5 to 8 · 4!a |
| Account number | positions 9 to 28 · 20!n |
| Official example | SV62 CENR 0000 0000 0000 0070 0025 |
| SEPA area | outside the SEPA area |
| Verification of Payee | no duty to date |
| Bank-code register | IBANforge composite map, assembled from BIC directories (not a national register) |
SWIFT notation: n = digits, a = upper-case letters, c = alphanumeric characters; the exclamation mark fixes the exact length.
What the API checks on a El Salvador IBAN
- The length, the charset of every field and the mod-97 check digits.
- The bank code against our composite map assembled from BIC directories: a BIC and a bank name when they are listed, without the weight of a national register.
- The country is outside SEPA: a SEPA transfer will not reach this account.
What the API answers for this code
The block below is the route's own answer, produced by the same code that serves api.ibanforge.com, on the register as of the date shown. Nothing is edited.
{
"valid": true,
"country": {
"code": "SV",
"name": "El Salvador"
},
"bic": {
"code": "CENRSVSSXXX",
"bic8": "CENRSVSS",
"bank_name": "Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador",
"city": "San Salvador",
"source": "IBANforge curated bank-code map",
"as_of": "2026-09",
"basis": "curated_map",
"authoritative": false,
"lei": "549300U9H74ZS6M90L15"
},
"bank_code_check": {
"value": "CENR",
"status": "verified",
"match": "register",
"register": "IBANforge composite bank-code map (assembled from BIC directories, not a national bank-code register)",
"authoritative": false,
"as_of": "2026-09"
},
"sepa": {
"member": false,
"schemes": [],
"vop_required": false,
"vop_participant": false,
"basis": "country_default"
},
"issuer": {
"type": "bank",
"name": "Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador",
"classification": "default"
},
"risk_indicators": {
"country_risk": "standard",
"sepa_reachable": false,
"vop_coverage": false,
"test_bic": false
}
}Source: ISO 13616 registry for the length, layout and example; API answer captured on 2026-09-23.