First City Monument Bank Swift Code

BIC / Swift Code FCMBNGLA is the unique bank identifier for FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK LIMITED‘s head office branch located in LAGOS – NIGERIA and it’s used to verify financial transactions such as a bank wire transfers (international wire transfers).

The bic / swift code provides information about the bank and branch where the money should be transferred. Being able to check information about the code will provide you with the proper information necessary to make or receive payments. Some banks and their associated branches benefit from an address listing which provides you with the means to match swift codes with financial institution office address.

This bic / swift code directory provides businesses and individuals with an easy way to verify bank details and avoid international money transfer mistakes.

Swift Code General Structure

The SWIFT code / BIC code is made up of 8 or 11 characters, broken down as follows:

• 4 letters: Institution code or bank code.
• 2 letters: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
• 2 letters or digits: location code
  • if the second character is “0”, then it is typically a test BIC as opposed to a BIC used on the live network.
  • if the second character is “1”, then it denotes a passive participant in the SWIFT network
  • if the second character is “2”, then it typically indicates a reverse billing BIC, where the recipient pays for the message as opposed to the more usual mode whereby the sender pays for the message.
• 3 letters or digits: branch code, optional (‘XXX’ for primary office)

Where an 8-digit code is given, it may be assumed that it refers to the primary office.

SWIFT Standards, a division of The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), handles the registration of these codes. Because SWIFT originally introduced what was later standardized as Business Identifier Codes (BICs), they are still often called SWIFT addresses or codes.