Currently, most industrialised nations except the US use the IBAN protocol. For example, my Canadian chequing account statement gives my chequing account number in IBAN format. Will the US soon implement this global standard?

The US say world wide standards are garbage. They don't even know what the Metric System is.

Ik weet niet... Sounds odd- It's just payer ID...

Dutch banks kept me out because I had no such number on my past accounts...

It's hard to say!!!

it's called Banlon

That would reduce the amount of fraud so I imagine the answer is never.

the US is behind they refuse to put chips in credit cards too