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title: "Bank of America, National Association SWIFT/BIC code MLCOHKH1XXX · Hong Kong SAR China | Elucidate"
description: "FSB global systemically important bank (G-SIB), bucket 3 of 5. SWIFT/BIC code MLCOHKH1XXX for Bank of America, National Association, Hong Kong SAR China."
url: https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-national-association-mlcohkh1
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Hong Kong SAR China · Financial institution
# Bank of America, National Association
Legal name in the LEI record BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
FSB G-SIB list 2025
3
Bucket 3 of 5 · listed since 2011
Listed G-SIB entity · Bank of America
[FSB 2025 list ↗](https://www.fsb.org/2025/11/2025-list-of-global-systemically-important-banks-g-sibs/) [What is a G-SIB? ↗](https://www.fsb.org/work-of-the-fsb/market-and-institutional-resilience/post-2008-financial-crisis-reforms/ending-too-big-to-fail/global-systemically-important-financial-institutions-g-sifis/)
BIC **MLCOHKH1XXX** LEI **[9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774)** Licence no. **Not on a tracked register** Passive participant (no connection) [Global systemically important bank · bucket **3**](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-national-association-mlcohkh1#regulatory) Head-office BIC only [Group: Bank of America Corporation](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774) [Claim this profile](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-national-association-mlcohkh1#claim)
## Licences and registrations
Held by the legal entity, not by this BIC
This BIC is mapped to LEI 9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774 (Bank of America Corporation) in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. The legal entity’s page is [Bank of America Corporation (MLCOUS33)](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-corporation-mlcous33). None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
Licences belong to the legal entity. Each applies in the country of the regulator that granted it, not to every BIC that carries the LEI.
## Regulatory status
### FSB · global systemically important banks
2025 list
- **G-SIB:** Bank of America
- **Relation:** Listed G-SIB entityThe entity the FSB names on its G-SIB list: the group’s holding company, or the bank itself where the group is a single bank.
- **Bucket:** 3 of 5 · extra capital buffer 2.0% of risk-weighted assets
- **On the list since:** 2011
## Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- **BIC:** MLCOHKH1XXX head office
- **Connection to Swift:** Passive participant (no connection)
- **Swift GPI:** Not on the member list
- **Payment schemes and systems:** No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- **Branch codes:** None: head-office BIC only
- **Other BICs with this LEI:** [MLCOUS33](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-corporation-mlcous33) · [MLCOKRS1](https://elucidate.co/directory/merrill-lynch-international-incorporated-seoul-branch-mlcokrs1)
- **BIC first registered:** 1995-06-03
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-13
## Identifiers
Head-office record
- **BIC:** MLCOHKH1XXX
- **How the BIC breaks down:** 1. MLCO Bank 2. HK Country · Hong Kong SAR China 3. H1 Location · passive 4. XXX Branch · head office
- **Branch description:** Not recorded in the directory
- **LEI:** [9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-corporation-mlcous33)
- **LEI record:** [View on GLEIF ↗](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774)
- **How the LEI was matched:** BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
## Profile
- **Type:** Financial institution
- **Regulation:** Not on a tracked register
- **Register licences:** None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers
- **Country · region:** Hong Kong SAR China · East Asia & Pacific
- **FSB G-SIB list:** [Bucket 3 of 5](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-national-association-mlcohkh1#regulatory) list of 2025
- **Trading venues (MIC):** No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- **OFAC sanctions:** No listing cites this BIC
- **EU sanctions:** No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- **Country sanctions:** Targeted listings only OFAC
- **Founded:** 1998
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
## Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- **FSB G-SIB list:** [Listed G-SIB entity · Bank of America](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774) bucket 3 · 2025 list The entity the FSB names on its G-SIB list: the group’s holding company, or the bank itself where the group is a single bank.
The Bank of America Corporation group has 75 institutions in the directory, in 36 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including [Bank of America, N.A.](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-n-a-bofagb22), [Bank of America Europe Designated Activity Company](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-europe-designated-activity-company-mlmbie2x), [Bank of America National Association, Hong Kong Branch](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-national-association-hong-kong-branch-bofahkhx), [Bank of America, N.A.](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-n-a-bofagb4t), [Bofa Securities Europe S.A.](https://elucidate.co/directory/bofa-securities-europe-s-a-bofafrp3).
[See the Bank of America Corporation group →](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774)
Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
## Addresses
- **Registered address:** ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING 2 ICE HOUSE STREET HONG KONG, CENTRAL HONG KONG
- **Operational address:** ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING FLOOR 11 2 ICE HOUSE STREET CENTRAL HONG KONG HONG KONG HONG KONG
## ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- **Identified by:** BIC, with its LEI
- **Roles in CBPR+:** Debtor agent, creditor agent or an intermediary agent
### CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
```xml
MLCOHKH1XXX
9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774
```
### Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
```xml
MLCOHKH1XXX
9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774
BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
HONG KONG
HK
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING 2 ICE HOUSE STREET HONG KONG, CENTRAL
```
This BIC is not connected to Swift. Messages reach the institution through a correspondent bank, so it cannot be the instructing or instructed agent.
The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
## About
From Wikidata, matched on this institution's BIC or LEI
Photo: Kiran891 · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_America_Corporate_Center_Charlotte,_North_Carolina.jpg) · [original](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Bank_of_America_Corporate_Center_Charlotte%2C_North_Carolina.jpg/960px-Bank_of_America_Corporate_Center_Charlotte%2C_North_Carolina.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- **Founded:** 1998
- **Headquarters:** Charlotte
- **Website:** [bankofamerica.com ↗](https://www.bankofamerica.com/)
- **Employees:** 213,000 2023
- **Total assets:** USD 3.2T 2023
- **Wikipedia:** [Bank of America ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America)
- **Wikidata:** [Q487907 ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q487907)
## Related institutions
### Legal entity
- [Bank of America Corporation BIC MLCOUS33 Financial institution Not on a tracked register United States · Not on a tracked register · LEI 9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-corporation-mlcous33)
The page that carries this LEI’s licences and group facts.
### Same legal entity
- [Merrill Lynch International Incorporated, Seoul Branch BIC MLCOKRS1 Financial institution Not on a tracked register South Korea · Not on a tracked register · LEI 9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774](https://elucidate.co/directory/merrill-lynch-international-incorporated-seoul-branch-mlcokrs1)
Other BICs mapped to the same LEI.
### Subsidiaries in the directory
- [Bofa Securities Europe S.A. BIC BOFAFRP3 Credit institution Prudential licence France · On the ECB list of supervised entities · LEI 549300FH0WJAPEHTIQ77](https://elucidate.co/directory/bofa-securities-europe-s-a-bofafrp3)
- [Bank of America Mexico, S.A., Institucion de Banca Multiple BIC BOFAMXMX Financial institution Not on a tracked register Mexico · Not on a tracked register · LEI HDUQYNW53X081TMBDI48](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-mexico-s-a-institucion-de-banca-multiple-bofamxmx)
- [Bank of America Singapore Limited BIC BOFASG3X Financial institution Not on a tracked register Singapore · Not on a tracked register · LEI VA9A2N6HFS91CU3OYI58](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-singapore-limited-bofasg3x)
- [Ba Asia Limited BIC ASLDHKH1 Financial institution Not on a tracked register Hong Kong SAR China · Not on a tracked register · LEI 549300ZM0JAJ8TK0HN16](https://elucidate.co/directory/ba-asia-limited-asldhkh1)
- [Merrill Lynch Corredores de Bolsa S.A. BIC MLOBCLR1 Financial institution Not on a tracked register Chile · Not on a tracked register · LEI 3TKNA5VH52S9WLWPMW19](https://elucidate.co/directory/merrill-lynch-corredores-de-bolsa-s-a-mlobclr1)
Entities that GLEIF records with this LEI as their direct parent.
### Same group
- [Merrill Lynch Far East Ltd. BIC MLFEHKHH Financial institution Not on a tracked register Hong Kong SAR China · Not on a tracked register · LEI 549300VDY6P7FVMD4W57](https://elucidate.co/directory/merrill-lynch-far-east-ltd-mlfehkhh)
- [Bank of America, N.A. BIC BOFAGB22 Credit institution Prudential licence United Kingdom · On the FSB G-SIB list · LEI B4TYDEB6GKMZO031MB27](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-n-a-bofagb22)
- [Bank of America Europe Designated Activity Company BIC MLMBIE2X Credit institution Prudential licence Ireland · On the ECB list of supervised entities · LEI EQYXK86SF381Q21S3020](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-europe-designated-activity-company-mlmbie2x)
- [Bank of Africa Shanghai Branch BIC BMCECNSH Credit institution Prudential licence China · On the FSB G-SIB list · LEI 300300C1053231000032](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-africa-shanghai-branch-bmcecnsh)
- [Merrill Lynch International BIC MLILGB3L Financial institution Not on a tracked register United Kingdom · Not on a tracked register · LEI GGDZP1UYGU9STUHRDP48](https://elucidate.co/directory/merrill-lynch-international-mlilgb3l)
- [Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia) Limited BIC MLEQAU2S Financial institution Not on a tracked register Australia · Not on a tracked register · LEI 5493000ZISK51SMQFR40](https://elucidate.co/directory/merrill-lynch-equities-australia-limited-mleqau2s)
- [Bofa Securities Inc BIC MTGSUS6S Financial institution Not on a tracked register United States · Not on a tracked register · LEI 549300HN4UKV1E2R3U73](https://elucidate.co/directory/bofa-securities-inc-mtgsus6s)
- [Bank of America Yatirim Bank AS BIC MEYYTRIS Financial institution Not on a tracked register Türkiye · Not on a tracked register · LEI STSLBRI8PHD0YH5NDL06](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-yatirim-bank-as-meyytris)
[All 75 institutions in the Bank of America Corporation group →](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/9DJT3UXIJIZJI4WXO774)
### Same name, different BIC
- [Bank of America National Association BIC BOFASG2X Credit institution Prudential licence Singapore · On the FSB G-SIB list · LEI B4TYDEB6GKMZO031MB27](https://elucidate.co/directory/bank-of-america-national-association-bofasg2x)
### Largest institutions in Hong Kong SAR China
- [Rge Limited BIC EATRHKHK Non-financial corporate Not on a tracked register Hong Kong SAR China · Not on a tracked register · No LEI mapped](https://elucidate.co/directory/rge-limited-eatrhkhk)
- [The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited BIC HSBCHKHH Credit institution Prudential licence Hong Kong SAR China · On the FSB G-SIB list · LEI 2HI3YI5320L3RW6NJ957](https://elucidate.co/directory/the-hongkong-and-shanghai-banking-corporation-limited-hsbchkhh)
- [Citibank NA BIC CITIHKHX Credit institution Prudential licence Hong Kong SAR China · On the FSB G-SIB list · LEI E57ODZWZ7FF32TWEFA76](https://elucidate.co/directory/citibank-na-citihkhx)
- [Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.A. - Hong Kong Branch BIC CHASHKHH Credit institution Prudential licence Hong Kong SAR China · On the FSB G-SIB list · LEI 7H6GLXDRUGQFU57RNE97](https://elucidate.co/directory/jpmorgan-chase-bank-n-a-hong-kong-branch-chashkhh)
- [The HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Asia) LTD BIC BTFEHKHH Financial institution Not on a tracked register Hong Kong SAR China · Not on a tracked register · LEI 213800J8DU4K8NQTRQ18](https://elucidate.co/directory/the-hsbc-institutional-trust-services-asia-ltd-btfehkhh)
- [Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited BIC SCBLHKHH Financial institution Not on a tracked register Hong Kong SAR China · Not on a tracked register · LEI X5AV1MBDXGRPX5UGMX13](https://elucidate.co/directory/standard-chartered-bank-hong-kong-limited-scblhkhh)
- [China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited BIC CCBQHKAX Financial institution Not on a tracked register Hong Kong SAR China · Not on a tracked register · LEI 549300MPFMWO1KUUZ497](https://elucidate.co/directory/china-construction-bank-asia-corporation-limited-ccbqhkax)
- [Icici Bank LTD BIC ICICHKHH Financial institution Not on a tracked register Hong Kong SAR China · Not on a tracked register · No LEI mapped](https://elucidate.co/directory/icici-bank-ltd-icichkhh)
[See every BIC in Hong Kong SAR China →](https://elucidate.co/directory/country/hk#bics)
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- **Ownership and group**—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
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