It is a number assigned by Narodowy Bank Polski to newly-founded banks, i.e. a unique bank identifier composed of 3 digits, and in the case of a cooperative bank – of 4 digits:
•in the case of cooperative banks, e.g:
8001 - Bank Spółdzielczy in Otwock,
9681 - Powiatowy Bank Spółdzielczy in Września,
•in the case of other banks, e.g.:
101 - Narodowy Bank Polski,
102 - Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski SA.
It is a 3, 4 or 5-digit symbol, also called “identifier”, at the beginning of a clearing code.
In order to identify a payment service provider maintaining the account (e.g. a bank), having the customer's payment account number in the List of institution tab, in the Institution number, Settlement number or Account number field, enter the customer's account number. After entering the number, a window will appear with information whether the account number is correct. If the customer's account number is correct, confirm it (by indicating it and clicking it) in the displayed window and pressing the "Search" button (magnifying glass icon). The account provider details will be displayed, as well as the organizational unit details with contact details. If the account number is incorrect, it will not be possible to identify the provider.
In order to find a legal successor of a defunct bank, please address your query helpdesk@nbp.pl.
The file contains only data about active sort codes of operating institutions and organisational units using these codes.
To automatically download the plewibnra.txt file, use the link https://ewib.nbp.pl/plewibnra?dokNazwa=plewibnra.txt .
The structure of txt file is described in the following document.
Structure file plewibnra.pdf
Plewiba.xml file contains information about:
The file contains extended data about registered institutions, incl. data about the institution (e.g. NIP, LEI and GIIN numbers), data about all operating organisational units of banks performing tasks related to the processing of monetary settlements, information about opening hours and services available in the units, as well as detailed data about sort codes (including the date of generating the code).
The structure of plewiba.xml file is described in the following document.
plewiba.xsd
The description of plewiba.xml file elements can be found in the document below.
Opis elementów pliku plewiba.xml_Description of the plewiba.xml file elements.pdf
Data in the plewibnra.txt and plewiba.xml files on the Narodowy Bank Polski website are updated subject to changes submitted by institutions, at the most once a week.
If you encounter problems converting the Polish fonts from txt into xls file, use coding "852: Central Europe (DOS)" in the "Creator of import" in Excel. Furthermore, in order to keep a proper format of the imported data, in the dialogue box allowing the specification of the type of data, please mark all the columns and choose „Text” format.”
The API (Application Programming Interface) for EWIB 2.0 makes it possible to perform queries based on the data published on the website of this system.
The scope of the downloaded data and the technical description of the API is available at https://ewib.nbp.pl/api/swagger.json.
EWIB 2.0 provides an API, without authentication of the external system, in the form of REST (Representational State Transfer) services in response to:
The query template is as follows:
https://ewib.nbp.pl/api/[no_version]/[zapytanie]/[query parameters].
where:
Service replies are returned in the XML or JSON format. It is not necessary to determine the parameter for replies in the XML format.
For a response in the JSON format, indicate the format parameter as format=json.
If the nrRozliczeniowy (Sort Code) or nazwa (name) parameter is not specified, the system returns a list of all sort codes or a list of all institutions, respectively (and their organisational units, with their sort codes).
Examples:
https://ewib.nbp.pl/api/v1/zapytanie1/?nrRozliczeniowy=10100000&format=json
https://ewib.nbp.pl/api/v1/zapytanie1/?&format=xml
https://ewib.nbp.pl/api/v1/zapytanie2/?nazwa=narodowy&format=xml
https://ewib.nbp.pl/api/v1/zapytanie2/?&format=json
The word „bank” means: a domestic bank or a branch of credit institution or a branch of a foreign bank or Narodowy Bank Polski.
Address your query on e-mail: helpdesk@nbp.pl.
