Googling the IBAN (UA458201720313281002302018611) finds search results [1] from sites including treasury.gov.ua [2], mil.gov.ua [3] and 24tv.ua [4]. I currently

Googling the IBAN (UA458201720313281002302018611) finds search results [1] from sites including treasury.gov.ua [2], mil.gov.ua [3] and 24tv.ua [4]. I currently see only 23 results for the IBAN code, but I blame this on the newness/novelty of the information and a suspicion that Google's keyword indexing engine doesn't particularly like rare/unique terms (both when parsing queries and tokenizing page content). Googling the USREOU [4] code (00034022) leads me to discover [5] that this code maps into an open-data public register that several search/scrape services [6,7,8,9,10] identify (with the help of Google Translate) as the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. A cursory examination suggests that all of these services seem to 100% corroborate each other. The MFI (820172) is a very simple/common query/construction that returns junk/irrelevant results without further context. I wondered if this number being incorrect would cause a transaction to irreversibly "commit" but not go to the correct destination (or anywhere), so I tried to understand its significance. It's a Monetary Financial Institution code [11], part of a European banking standard that Ukraine participated in until it very recently switched to IBAN in 2020 (!) [12]. Critically, while the format of an IBAN (International Bank Account Number) seems (my speculation!) to be up to the implementer to format (seemingly within some loose guidelines... again, speculation), the way Ukraine is doing it is they are embedding the MFI code into the IBAN: UA45𝟴𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳𝟮313…. Thus the MFI is provided by the MOD likely for bureaucracy purposes, and if it is needed at all it is encoded redundantly into the IBAN in any case. Yay. **Disclaimer**: I encourage challenging and fact-checking the rationale presented here before proceeding. (The registry information [6..10] is honestly mildly interesting.) Thankyou for coming to my Wikipedia comment (this was fun!), dodge the citations as you go past :P [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=UA458201720313281002302018611 https://www.google.com/search?q=UA45820172031328100230201861... [2] https://www.treasury.gov.ua/ua/dopomoga-na-materialno-tehnichne-ta-medichne-zabezpechennya-zbrojnih-sil-ukrayini https://www.treasury.gov.ua/ua/dopomoga-na-materialno-tehnic... [3] https://www.mil.gov.ua/dopomoga-na-materialno-tehnichne-ta-medichne-zabezpechennya-zbrojnih-sil-ukraini.html https://www.mil.gov.ua/dopomoga-na-materialno-tehnichne-ta-m... [4] https://24tv.ua/ru/finansovo-podderzhat-ukrainskuju-armiju-oficialnye-scheta_n1877181 https://24tv.ua/ru/finansovo-podderzhat-ukrainskuju-armiju-o..., https://24tv.ua/mzs-otrimalo-bagato-zvernen-za-kordonu-shhodo-finansovoyi-dopomogti_n1877055 https://24tv.ua/mzs-otrimalo-bagato-zvernen-za-kordonu-shhod... [4] https://www.allacronyms.com/USREOU https://www.allacronyms.com/USREOU - "Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations of Ukraine" [5] https://www.google.com/search?q=00034022 https://www.google.com/search?q=00034022 [6] https://youcontrol.com.ua/en/catalog/company_details/00034022/ https://youcontrol.com.ua/en/catalog/company_details/0003402... [7] https://opendatabot.ua/c/00034022 https://opendatabot.ua/c/00034022 [8] https://dozorro.org/profile/UA-EDR-00034022/5/role1 https://dozorro.org/profile/UA-EDR-00034022/5/role1 [9] https://clarity-project.info/tenderer/00034022 https://clarity-project.info/tenderer/00034022 [10] https://izi.trade/tenders/companies/00034022 https://izi.trade/tenders/companies/00034022 [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_Financial_Institutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_Financial_Institution... [12] https://about.pumb.ua/en/info/iban https://about.pumb.ua/en/info/iban [13] https://bank.com.ua/en/news/zaprovadzhennya-mizhnarodnogo-nomera-bankivskogo-rahunku-iban https://bank.com.ua/en/news/zaprovadzhennya-mizhnarodnogo-no... [14] https://www.iban.com/banks/privatbank https://www.iban.com/banks/privatbank [15] https://en.privatbank.ua/iban https://en.privatbank.ua/iban