Verifying your business in Europe

For an EEA Private Limited Company account, you need to prepare the document(s) below:

• Certificate of Incorporation or Extract from the Chamber of Commerce
• Memorandum and articles of association or equivalent company constitution
• Personal ID and personal address of all Director(s)
• Personal ID and personal address of Ultimate Beneficiary Owner(s) (if applicable

For an EEA Limited Partnership account, you need to prepare the document(s) below:

• Proof of full legal name and legal entities address (any bill or bank statement dated in the last 3 months addressed to the legal entity)
• Partnership Agreement or Extract from the Chamber of Commerce
• Personal ID and personal address of all Partners

For an EEA General Partnership (Unlimited) account, you need to prepare the document(s) below:

• Proof of full legal name and legal entities address (any bill or bank statement dated in the last 3 months addressed to the legal entity)
• Partnership Agreement or Extract from the Chamber of Commerce
• Personal ID and personal address of all General Partners

*If not all the partners in your partnership are individuals, we will contact you for further information about your partnership structure.

For an EEA Sole Trader account, you need to prepare the document(s) below:

• Extract from the Chamber of Commerce
• Your Personal ID and personal address
• Proof of full legal name and legal entities address (any bill or bank statement dated in the last 3 months addressed to the legal entity)

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1. Business Information 

Certificate of Incorporation

Partnership Agreement

Proof of Business Address

Bank Statement Sample

Bill Sample

Authorisation Letter

We require a letter of authorisation signed by the directors for the authorised person to act on behalf of the company

Download Authorisation letter sample

2. Personal Information

Director

Director is the individual of the company authorised with the legal power to represent, enter into binding obligations on behalf of the company in accordance with the law or articles of association of the company in default.

Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO)

Ultimate Beneficial owner refers to an individual who owns or controls, directly or indirectly, including through a trust or bearer shareholding, more than 25% of the issued share capital of the corporation.

Personal ID 

Please provide images for government issued, official photo ID, such as Passport, National ID or Driving Licence (if applicable).

Some valid ID examples are provided below:

1) Passport - All Countries

2) National ID - e.g. Dutch ID card

National ID - e.g. HKID

Please note if the Director, UBO, or Partner is a Chinese citizen, only Chinese National ID (身份证) is acceptable, and both front and back side needed.

Chinese National ID sample: