Vatican City IBAN

Anatomy of the official example

VA59001123000012345678

• 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.

What the API checks on a Vatican City 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's SEPA reachability and the open schemes (SCT, SDD, SCT Inst).
• The Verification of Payee duty that does, or does not, bind the country's providers.

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": "VA",
    "name": "Vatican City"
  },
  "bic": {
    "code": "IOPRVAVX",
    "bic8": "IOPRVAVX",
    "bank_name": "Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR)",
    "city": "Vatican City",
    "source": "IBANforge curated bank-code map",
    "as_of": "2026-09",
    "basis": "curated_map",
    "authoritative": false,
    "lei": "254900E7HZKVQQ4I7325"
  },
  "bank_code_check": {
    "value": "001",
    "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": true,
    "schemes": [
      "SCT"
    ],
    "vop_required": false,
    "vop_participant": false,
    "basis": "epc_register"
  },
  "issuer": {
    "type": "bank",
    "name": "Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR)",
    "classification": "default"
  },
  "risk_indicators": {
    "country_risk": "standard",
    "sepa_reachable": true,
    "vop_coverage": false,
    "test_bic": false
  }
}