Oromia Bank SWIFT code
ORIRETAA
OROMIA INTERNATIONAL BANK S.C.
Check this against your bank or the person you are paying before you send anything. This page reads published directories; it is not Oromia Bank speaking, and a code that is right today can be reissued.
What the eight characters mean
- ORIR
- The bank. Four letters, assigned when the bank registered with SWIFT.
- ET
- Ethiopia. The ISO country code.
- AA
- The location of the registered head office.
If a form insists on eleven characters, add XXX: ORIRETAAXXX. The three X characters mean the head office rather than a named branch, and for an ordinary incoming transfer that is what you want.
Worth knowing
ORIR stands for Oromia International, the bank’s former name. It trades as Oromia Bank now, but the BIC was issued under the old one and still carries it.
What else a transfer into Ethiopia needs
Ethiopia does not use IBAN. If a form asks for one, there is nothing to put in it. What Oromia Bank needs is the SWIFT code above, the full account number, and the account holder’s name spelled the way the bank holds it. A name that does not match is the most common reason an incoming transfer is held.
Foreign-currency transfers into Ethiopia also pass through the country’s exchange control rules, so the receiving bank may ask the recipient what the money is for before releasing it. That is normal and is between the recipient and their bank.
Verifying an Oromia Bank payment
A SWIFT code is for money coming in from abroad. For a local Oromia Bank transfer, where somebody sends you a receipt and you want to know it is real, links.et reads the receipt from obinfo.oromiabank.com and gives you back what the bank recorded.
Verify an Oromia Bank receipt