I live outside of the UK, can I open an account?
You can open an account subject to us, where applicable, conducting certain credit and personal identity and residency checks for the purposes of anti-money laundering, identification and risk mitigation. However, due to certain United Kingdom government and international restrictions, we do not allow private individuals who are residents of the following countries and regions to open or hold a Customer Account:
- Afghanistan
- Al Qaida
- Belarus
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Guinea
- Republic of Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Iran
- Iraq
- ISIL (Da’esh)
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Mali
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nicaragua
- Russia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe