Syndicate Bank → Canara Bank: what happened to the IFSC codes

Syndicate Bank merged into Canara Bank on 2020-04-01. Our archive of every release of the RBI branch list since February 2016 holds 4,443 Syndicate Bank IFSC codes. For 4,037 of them (90%) we can name the Canara Bank code that replaced it and show the evidence. For the other 406 we do not name one, because nothing we hold ties them to a single live branch — and we do not guess.

Merged into

Canara Bank

Merger date

2020-04-01

Old codes on record

4,443

Last release carrying most of them

release 1.6.0, 2021-07-12

First release without them

release 1.6.1, 2021-08-06

New code named here

4,037 of 4,443

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. 4,344 of the Syndicate Bank codes were still in the list in release 1.6.0, published 2021-07-12 — 15 months after the merger. They are absent from release 1.6.1 (2021-08-06) onward. The other 37 codes left the list in other releases.

62 codes had already left the list by the merger date, so their withdrawal was not the merger itself.

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

• 3,710 codes by Canara Bank's renumbering rule — the old branch number plus 10,000, behind CNRB — accepted only where the branch name recorded at the new code matches the old one as well.
• 327 codes by an exact address match: the address on the old record is, character for character, the address of a live Canara 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 Syndicate Bank 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.