Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD SWIFT/BIC code

Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD SWIFT code: SCBLTZTX

The short code SCBLTZTX and the 11-character code SCBLTZTXXXX identify one and the same institution: Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD, with its head office in Dar Es Salaam. A BIC does one job: it ensures that an international payment reaches the right bank. It comes up mainly when dealing with transfers between countries and payments in foreign currencies.

We wrote this page to help people who receives money at an account at Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD without mistakes. Remember that the BIC only identifies the bank, not the person: the IBAN or account number does that part.

Receiving money from abroad at Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD

When you are waiting for money from abroad, send the payer all details at once. Give them your name as the bank knows it, the IBAN or account number, the BIC SCBLTZTXXXX and your address.

It helps to add the bank name and Dar Es Salaam as well. A mistake in your account number can be more trouble than you might think; copy them from your banking app rather than typing.

What lands in your account is often less than what was sent. Charges on incoming payments differ from bank to bank. On invoices, you can state how the fees are split.

Head office or branch code at Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD?

Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD uses 2 different SWIFT/BIC codes. One of them is the head office code; the rest belong to branches or departments.

Usually there is no need to pick a branch: payments addressed to SCBLTZTXXXX reach Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD without problems. Branch codes are only needed if the recipient’s bank explicitly asks for it.

When in doubt, ask the person you are paying for the exact BIC in their bank details. Branch codes are more prone to be retired than the head office code.

Paying someone abroad from your Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD account

A bank transfer abroad costs rather more than the fee suggests. There is the fee for the transfer itself, sometimes charges from correspondent banks along the way and, above all, the exchange rate markup when the money is converted.

The markup on the rate is often the biggest item even though it is not listed as a fee. Check their rate with the mid-market rate, the midpoint between buy and sell rates you see on financial sites; the gap is what conversion costs you.

For a lot of currency pairs, a specialist provider is less expensive than a bank. On GoldexPay you can compare the amount that arrives across services, so you can pick the cheapest route. Choosing a specialist does not mean leaving Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD: you simply pay the service from your account.

Where our SWIFT data comes from

The details here come from public sources that we update regularly. Institutions reorganise, change names and change codes. Counts and locations come from our own dataset and are not confirmed by Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD.

Treat our data as a starting point, rather than as the final word. GoldexPay is independent of Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD, we only compare transfer services. Spotted an error? Let us know via our contact form so we can correct it.

How to check SCBLTZTX before you pay

The most reliable source for the BIC is the bank details provided by the recipient: an invoice, a bank statement or their online banking. If the code you have differs from SCBLTZTX or SCBLTZTXXXX, stop and ask: check with the recipient or with Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD directly.

A wrong SWIFT code may lead to delays, a payment being sent back or extra fees along the way. Do not forget the IBAN: a mistake there can be more difficult to undo than a wrong code.

Many banking apps check the format of an IBAN. Some banks now compare the name with the account before you confirm; take any warning seriously. When you pay someone new, some people start with a small amount first before sending the rest.

SCBLTZTX or SCBLTZTXXXX – which one to use?

The structure of every SWIFT code never changes: four characters for the institution, two for the country and a two-character location code, sometimes followed by a branch code. That gives you SCBLTZTX for Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD.

Many banks and apps accept either length. If yours requires eleven characters, use SCBLTZTXXXX, otherwise SCBLTZTX is fine.

In practice the code is typed in capitals, without spaces or dashes. Watch for the letter O and the digit 0 and the letter I and the digit 1.

Tracking a transfer to or from Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD

There is no fixed delivery time for international payments: many arrive the same day or the next, others take several business days. Payments made after the cut-off time or just before a weekend or public holiday usually start the next business day. Sometimes a bank asks what the payment is for before releasing it.

When a payment takes longer than expected, ask your bank for the status and the transaction reference so they can trace it along the chain. Save the payment confirmation; it contains the details a bank needs to start a trace.

A missing payment is investigated from the sending side. Ask the sender for a copy of the payment confirmation including the reference.

Changed bank details? Be careful

A common scam goes like this: an email arrives with a message claiming that a company has new bank details and that the next payment should go there. A real SWIFT code tells you nothing about who owns the account: scammers use real codes of real banks.

Do not rely on contact details in the same message that contains the new account. Watch out for time pressure, unusual wording or an email address that differs by one letter. If a payment has already gone to a fraudster, contact your bank immediately: the sooner they act, the better the chance of a recall.

Fraud also work the other way. Someone claims to have sent too much and asks you to return the extra via a different route. Wait until the money is actually in your account – ask Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania LTD if something looks wrong.