If you ever have to wire money from one bank to another specifically in regard to international transactions, you need to now about bank swift codes.

A SWIFT code or Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication code is used to uniquely identify a specific bank during international transaction. These codes are provided by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for each bank in the world.

Here are swift codes for Banks in Uganda located in Kampala city.

Bank name	Swift (BIC) code
Bank of Africa	AFRIUGKA
Bank of Baroda (Uganda) Ltd	BARBUGKA
Bank of India	BKIDUGKA
Barclays Bank Uganda	BARCUGKX
Cairo International Bank	CAIEUGKA
Centenary Bank Ltd	CERBUGKA
Citibank Uganda Ltd	CITIUGKA
Crane Bank	CRANUGKA
DFCU Bank	DFCUUGKA
Diamond Trust Bank	DTKEUGKA
Ecobank	ECOCUGKA
Equity Bank	EQBLUGKA
Fina Bank	FBAKUGKA
Housing Finance Bank	HFINUGKA
KCB Bank Uganda	KCBLUGKA
Orient Bank	ORINUGKA
Stanbic Bank Uganda	SBICUGKX
Standard Chartered Bank	SCBLUGKA
Tropical Bank	TROAUGKA
United Bank for Africa (UBA)	UNAFUGKA
FINANCE TRUST BANK LTD	FTBLUGKA
NC BANK UGANDA LIMITED	NINCUGKA

What makes up a bank’s Swift code

If you really want to dig deeper under the hood, what makes up Swift codes actually isn’t rocket science. The first 4 digits designate the bank code, the next 2 digits the country code while the following digits show the location code or the branch code.

 

Lets take an example of DTKEUGKA, Diamond Trust Bank’s swift code. The bank is located in Kampala Uganda.

• “DTKE” is the bank’s code.
• “UG” is Uganda’s country code
• “KA” is Kampala’s code.

So it’s that simple.

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