Oriental Bank of Commerce → Punjab National Bank: what happened to the IFSC codes

Oriental Bank of Commerce merged into Punjab National Bank on 2020-04-01. Our archive of every release of the RBI branch list since February 2016 holds 2,414 Oriental Bank of Commerce IFSC codes. For 2,401 of them (99%) we can name the Punjab National Bank code that replaced it and show the evidence. For the other 13 we do not name one, because nothing we hold ties them to a single live branch — and we do not guess.

Merged into

Punjab National Bank

Merger date

2020-04-01

Old codes on record

2,414

Last release carrying most of them

release 1.5.12, 2021-04-14

First release without them

release 1.5.13, 2021-05-10

New code named here

2,401 of 2,414

When the old codes left the RBI list

The merger took effect on 2020-04-01, but that is not the day the old codes stopped appearing in the RBI branch list. 2,404 of the Oriental Bank of Commerce codes were still in the list in release 1.5.12, published 2021-04-14 — 12 months after the merger. They are absent from release 1.5.13 (2021-05-10) onward. The other 10 codes left the list in other releases.

The date a bank actually switched its old codes off is usually different again, and for most mergers it was announced by the bank, not the RBI. Merger dates against switch-off dates, with sources.

How we know which new code replaced an old one

• 2,370 codes from a mapping file shipped with the dataset in Razorpay release 1.5.7 (map_1.5.7_PUNB-ORBC-merger.csv), which pairs old and new codes directly.
• 31 codes by an exact address match: the address on the old record is, character for character, the address of a live Punjab National Bank branch.

Where none of these holds, we name no replacement. How we decide a replacement. Confirm any replacement code with your bank before you send money.

By state

Old code to new code

Every Oriental Bank of Commerce code for which we name a replacement, by state. Open a state to see its codes. The new code links to that branch's record.