The IBAN concept was developed by ECBS and by the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) and is an internationally agreed standard. It was created as an international bank identifier, used to uniquely identify the account of a customer at a financial institution, to assist error-free cross-border customer payments, and to improve the potential for straight-through processing (STP), with a minimum amount of change within domestic schemes.
INTERNATIONAL BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER
Meaning of INTERNATIONAL BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER in English
European Central Bank English Glossary. Английский глоссарий Европейского Центрального Банка. 2012