This international money transfer jungle is really mixing me up.. I never really figured out how this 'international standardized' system worked, where the the US ABA and SORT code, the UK throws in Sort and BIC code (I think) and the (rest of the) Europe IBAN and BIC.

So I tried to enlighten myself and did a bit of Googling. That did't help.

The way I read it, Bruno from 41things thinks that IBAN, BIC and Swift are different things, but I'm pretty sure that IBAN = Swift.

But how to convert IBAN/BIC/Swift to ABA/Routing/whatever for US transactions? I dunno. But I found a solution. Or better.. after my coffee I noticed the ABA field was optional (so I skipped). I pasted in my IBAN into the remarks box and clicked on save.

now let's see what happens..