On September 2014 19, the People's Bank of China officially issued the financial industry standard Code of Financial Institutions. After full investigation, material arrangement, standard formulation, expert review and extensive consultation, the Code of Financial Institutions was finally formed.
The Code Specification for Financial Institutions stipulates the coding object, coding structure and expression form of financial institution codes, covering banks, securities and futures, insurance, transaction settlement financial institutions, financial holding companies and other institutions.
Notice of the People's Bank of China on Issuing Code Specifications of Financial Institutions
Yinfa (2009) No.363
China People's Bank Shanghai Headquarters, branches, business management departments, provincial capital city center branches, policy banks, state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, China Postal Savings Bank and financial asset management companies:
In order to unify the ways and methods of coding financial institutions, strengthen the interconnection between information systems, improve the efficiency of information sharing, standardize the coding of financial institutions used by the People's Bank of China and financial institutions in the construction, development, upgrading and transformation of information systems and data warehouses, and ensure the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the coded information of financial institutions, the People's Bank of China has compiled the Code of Financial Institutions, which is hereby printed and distributed to you.
China People's Bank Shanghai Headquarters, branches, business management departments and provincial capital city central sub-branches are requested to forward this notice to relevant financial institutions within their respective jurisdictions.
Appendix: Code Specification of Financial Institutions
People's Bank of China
November 30th, 2009
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Code specification of financial institutions (omitted)