Validating IBANs in African countries result in 'Unknown country-code' error
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IBANs with the following prefixes return an error: ['BF', 'BJ', 'CI', 'CM', 'MA', 'MG', 'ML', 'NE', 'RW']
The corresponding Country objects in pycountries
are:
[Country(alpha_2='BJ', alpha_3='BEN', flag='๐ง๐ฏ', name='Benin', numeric='204', official_name='Republic of Benin'),
Country(alpha_2='BF', alpha_3='BFA', flag='๐ง๐ซ', name='Burkina Faso', numeric='854'),
Country(alpha_2='CI', alpha_3='CIV', flag='๐จ๐ฎ', name="Cรดte d'Ivoire", numeric='384', official_name="Republic of Cรดte d'Ivoire"),
Country(alpha_2='CM', alpha_3='CMR', flag='๐จ๐ฒ', name='Cameroon', numeric='120', official_name='Republic of Cameroon'),
Country(alpha_2='MA', alpha_3='MAR', flag='๐ฒ๐ฆ', name='Morocco', numeric='504', official_name='Kingdom of Morocco'),
Country(alpha_2='MG', alpha_3='MDG', flag='๐ฒ๐ฌ', name='Madagascar', numeric='450', official_name='Republic of Madagascar'),
Country(alpha_2='ML', alpha_3='MLI', flag='๐ฒ๐ฑ', name='Mali', numeric='466', official_name='Republic of Mali'),
Country(alpha_2='NE', alpha_3='NER', flag='๐ณ๐ช', name='Niger', numeric='562', official_name='Republic of the Niger'),
Country(alpha_2='RW', alpha_3='RWA', flag='๐ท๐ผ', name='Rwanda', numeric='646', official_name='Rwandese Republic')]
Interestingly, the BICs located in these countries are valid.
Hello @n49o7, do you have IBAN examples we can use to test the issue?
Hello @n49o7 I couldn't find countries listed above in this list: https://www.xe.com/ibancalculator/countrylist/ or in the IBAN registry 2016 or IBAN registry 2023
Hello @Natim,
These countries are present on iban.com. I imagine that there is a degree of integration with the standard. On Wikipedia, they are listed as 'aspirational'. They might be on-track to be accepted soon.
IBAN/BIC checking websites (example) typically also show many more banks than the swift website, according to actual SwiftNet capabilities.
I have no opinion on the right thing to do.
In release 2024.1.1.post0
I added all countries that are listed on Wikipedia so that general support for these African countries should be available. The information about the BBAN structure is however very scarce, so that detail information (e.g. account number, bank code), might not always be available.