Requires you to be resident of, not to be a tax resident. I’ve seen on NomadForums some people have managed to open one just by living in there for a few weeks as a holiday.
Time too - doesn’t make it correct, though. Have you checked N26 out?
I haven’t, I’m still thinking about solutions. Haven’t started working yet. I’ll probably settle on HSBC/Standard Chartered/Bank of China HK or something as they’re relatively easy to open with one trip.
Tangentially nrelated, I know but interestingly enough, I noticed when I was looking at another bank account that gave full details of each account number, and my Revolut Polish Zloty account now has a Polish IBAN displayed, whereas all the other non-Euro accounts (e.g. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish krone) within SEPA territory do not. Upon further investigation, the “local accounts” tab of Polish zloty in the Revolut app actually display “local” account numbers and an address in Warsaw. Hence, I presume, the Polish IBAN.
The International details remain the same as all the other currencies. My US dollar account is the only other currency that displays this.
My PLN account in Revolut still uses GB IBAN and has no local details, but my Wise one indeed has local details
I think Wise briefly issued Polish IBANs and then stopped. They haven’t issued new local banking details for a while, and they ditched Romanian IBANs a bit back.
Wise don’t issue new ones, but old ones are still active and I open new local details whenever I see them offered in the app, so I have all of them besides ones that got withdrawn and revoked
There haven’t been new ones for a while.
Hong Kong details just dropped
Not in my version - GB IBAN only
I got an email about it, try closing your details and opening them again. Should ask you about sharing with DBS (partner bank).
Apologies - thought you were talking about Revolut (which DOES have a Polish IBAN).?my Wise HKD account does have bank details with DBS.