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title: OCBC Account Number Format
date: 2010-09-29 08:09:49
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2010/09/29/ocbc-account-number-format/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Blog
tags:
  - account
  - bank
  - format
  - OCBC
---

The Finance Admin of Li Xiang’s freelance job contacted her saying that here OCBC Account number is invalid. She said the account number suppose to have 9 digits (excluding first 3 digit branch code and dashes) whereas her’s only have 7. I checked mine and mine also have 7 digits only. Both of us were puzzled.

I did asked around in Facebook and Twitter and it seems all the people who replied to me have 9 digits on their OCBC Account Number. At first I thought we got our account very early (more than 10 years ago) and hence the lesser number of digits but apparently it is not.

I dropped OCBC an email and they replied within 24 hours!

Format **BBB – C – NNNNNN** (7 digits) is used only for **Savings** account.  
Format **BBB – NNNNNN – 001** (9 digits) is used for **Current** / **EasiSave** / **Moi** / **Personal Line** / **Statement Savings** / **MoneyMax** / **EasiCredit** account.

- BBB = Branch Code (the first 3 digits on your account number)
- Number of digits exclude first 3 digits, dashes and spaces