SWIFT codes are used to identify banks and financial institutions worldwide. They are used by the swift network to transmit wire transfers (money transactions) and messages between them.

For international wire transfers, swift codes are always required in order to make transactions secure and fast.

Swift codes are broken down into sections, in the same way telephone numbers are broken into sections, and every section reveals some information about the institution that was assigned this code.

They consist of eight or eleven characters. Whenever an eight-character code is used, then it is referring to the headquarters (main office) of the institution

Here is how an 11-character code is broken down and what each section of characters represents. Let's take this imaginary 11-character swift code:

AAAABBCCDDD

It can be broken down to these sections:
AAAA – BB – CC - DDD

Section 1 (the first 4-characters “AAAA”): This code is used to identify the institution’s global presence

Section 2 (5th and 6th characters “BB”): This two-letter code represents the country of this particular institution’s branch and follows the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard for representing country codes.

Section 3 (7th and 8th characters “CC”): These characters represent a location code and also the second character (8th in the B.I.C.) sometimes carries this information:

Section 4 (9th to 11th characters “DDD”): These final three characters form a “branch code” that refers to the particular branch of the institution.


As you want to get the SWIFT code of Lahore Branch of Oman International Bank S.A.O.G so here I am telling you that OIBAPKKALHR

In this Code the Main code is OIBAPKKA

Branch Code: LHR