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Virtual account countries by rail

Whether a customer can be issued a virtual bank account on EUR and USD banking rails, based on their primary address country.

A virtual account is required for:

Countries are listed in two groups:

  • Restricted — eligible on some rails but not others
  • Fully prohibited — not eligible to create a virtual account on any of these rails

Residences not listed are eligible, at the country-policy level, to create a virtual account on every rail below.

This page does not cover payout methods that do not use a virtual account (for example PIX or other local rails). For those, query the Channels API.

In the restricted table, ✓ = eligible at the country-policy level to create a virtual account for that rail. ✗ = not eligible.

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Country policy is one requirement only. Virtual account creation also depends on verification model, approvals, and other compliance checks. For example, USD virtual accounts require Standard Model KYC. See KYC and the EUR / USD bank onramp recipes.

Restricted

These residences can create a virtual account on some rails but not others.

Restricted residences by rail (✓ eligible / ✗ not eligible)
CountrySEPAACHFedwireFedNowSWIFT
AL Albania✗✓✓✓✓
DZ Algeria✓✗✗✗✗
AO Angola✓✓✓✗✗
AM Armenia✗✓✓✓✓
AZ Azerbaijan✗✓✓✓✓
BD Bangladesh✓✗✗✗✗
BB Barbados✗✓✓✓✓
BJ Benin✓✓✓✗✗
BO Bolivia✓✓✓✗✗
BW Botswana✗✓✓✓✓
BI Burundi✗✓✓✓✓
KH Cambodia✗✓✓✗✗
CM Cameroon✓✓✓✗✗
TD Chad✓✓✓✗✗
CN China✓✗✗✗✗
KM Comoros✓✓✓✗✗
CG Congo✓✓✓✗✗
DJ Djibouti✓✓✓✗✗
SV El Salvador✓✓✓✗✗
GQ Equatorial Guinea✓✓✓✗✗
ET Ethiopia✓✓✓✗✗
GA Gabon✓✓✓✗✗
GH Ghana✗✓✓✓✓
GN Guinea✗✓✓✗✗
HK Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China)✓✓✓✗✗
JM Jamaica✗✓✓✓✓
JP Japan✗✓✓✓✓
JO Jordan✗✓✓✓✓
KZ Kazakhstan✗✓✓✓✓
KE Kenya✓✗✗✗✗
XK Kosovo✓✗✗✗✗
KW Kuwait✓✓✓✗✗
KG Kyrgyzstan✗✓✓✓✓
LA Lao People's Democratic Republic✓✓✓✗✗
LV Latvia✓✓✓✗✗
LR Liberia✓✓✓✗✗
MG Madagascar✓✓✓✗✗
MY Malaysia✓✓✓✗✗
MR Mauritania✓✓✓✗✗
ME Montenegro✓✓✓✗✗
MA Morocco✗✓✓✓✓
NP Nepal✓✗✗✗✗
NE Niger✓✗✗✗✗
NG Nigeria✗✓✓✗✗
PG Papua New Guinea✓✓✓✗✗
PL Poland✓✓✓✗✗
SA Saudi Arabia✓✓✓✗✗
SN Senegal✗✓✓✓✓
RS Serbia✓✓✓✗✗
SL Sierra Leone✓✓✓✗✗
SB Solomon Islands✓✓✓✗✗
SR Suriname✓✓✓✗✗
SZ Swaziland✓✓✓✗✗
TJ Tajikistan✗✓✓✗✗
TZ Tanzania (United Republic of)✗✓✓✓✓
TG Togo✓✓✓✗✗
TT Trinidad and Tobago✗✓✓✓✓
TN Tunisia✗✓✓✓✓
TM Turkmenistan✗✓✓✗✗
UG Uganda✗✓✓✓✓
US United States✗✓✓✓✓
UZ Uzbekistan✗✓✓✓✓
VN Vietnam✓✓✓✗✗

Fully prohibited

These residences cannot create a virtual account on any of the rails below (SEPA, ACH, Fedwire, FedNow, SWIFT).

Residences not eligible to create a virtual account on any listed rail
Country
AF Afghanistan
BY Belarus
BF Burkina Faso
CF Central African Republic
CU Cuba
KP Democratic People's Republic of Korea
CD Democratic Republic of the Congo
GW Guinea-Bissau
HT Haiti
IR Iran (Islamic Republic of)
IQ Iraq
LB Lebanon
LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
ML Mali
MZ Mozambique
MM Myanmar
NI Nicaragua
PK Pakistan
PS Palestinian Territory (Occupied)
PA Panama
RU Russian Federation
SO Somalia
SS South Sudan
SD Sudan
SY Syrian Arab Republic
UA Ukraine
GB United Kingdom
VU Vanuatu
VE Venezuela
YE Yemen
ZW Zimbabwe