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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
AM Armenia
AO Angola
AZ Azerbaijan
BB Barbados
BD Bangladesh
BI Burundi
BJ Benin
BO Bolivia
BW Botswana
CG Congo
CM Cameroon
CN China
DJ Djibouti
DZ Algeria
ET Ethiopia
GA Gabon
GH Ghana
GN Guinea
GQ Equatorial Guinea
HK Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China)
JM Jamaica
JO Jordan
JP Japan
KE Kenya
KG Kyrgyzstan
KH Cambodia
KM Comoros
KW Kuwait
KZ Kazakhstan
LA Lao People's Democratic Republic
LR Liberia
LV Latvia
MA Morocco
ME Montenegro
MG Madagascar
MR Mauritania
MY Malaysia
NE Niger
NG Nigeria
NP Nepal
PG Papua New Guinea
PL Poland
RS Serbia
SA Saudi Arabia
SB Solomon Islands
SL Sierra Leone
SN Senegal
SR Suriname
SV El Salvador
SZ Swaziland
TD Chad
TG Togo
TJ Tajikistan
TM Turkmenistan
TN Tunisia
TT Trinidad and Tobago
TZ Tanzania (United Republic of)
UG Uganda
US United States
UZ Uzbekistan
VN Vietnam
XK Kosovo

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
BF Burkina Faso
BY Belarus
CD Democratic Republic of the Congo
CF Central African Republic
CU Cuba
GB United Kingdom
GW Guinea-Bissau
HT Haiti
IQ Iraq
IR Iran (Islamic Republic of)
KP Democratic People's Republic of Korea
LB Lebanon
LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
ML Mali
MM Myanmar
MZ Mozambique
NI Nicaragua
PA Panama
PK Pakistan
PS Palestinian Territory (Occupied)
RU Russian Federation
SD Sudan
SO Somalia
SS South Sudan
SY Syrian Arab Republic
UA Ukraine
VE Venezuela
VU Vanuatu
YE Yemen
ZW Zimbabwe