Opening an account for non-resident banks
Documents required from a non-resident bank for opening an account in hard currency
- Application for opening an account.
- Agreement by the established form.
- Documents confirming a legal status of non-resident bank according to the law of the country the bank is registered in, legalized in the embassy (consulate) of the Russian Federation abroad:
- constituent documents;
- documents confirming state registration of non-resident bank.
- Certified Album of signatures of persons authorized to make transactions on behalf of non-resident bank, including disposal of non-resident bank’s account. In case of electronic document turnover, the procedure of acknowledgement of autograph’s analogue is established and an Agreement on procedure and terms and conditions of autograph’s analogue utilization is concluded.
- Copy of the Regulations on Branch (Representative Office) certified according to the established order in case the agreement is signed by a branch’s director (manager) acting on the basis of the power of attorney on behalf of non-resident bank.
- Certificate on registration in a tax body (form # 2402IM).
- Other documents specified by the current law and the Bank’s requirements.
Documents required from a non-resident bank for opening an account in the currency of the Russian Federation
- Application for opening an account.
- Agreement by the established form.
- Certificate on registration in a tax body (form # 2402IM).
- Documents confirming a legal status of non-resident bank according to the law of the country the bank is registered in, legalized in the embassy (consulate) of the Russian Federation abroad:
- constituent documents;
- documents confirming state registration of non-resident bank.
- Copy of the Regulations on Branch (Representative Office) certified according to the established order in case the agreement is signed by a branch’s director (manager) acting on the basis of the power of attorney on behalf of non-resident bank.
- Certified Album of authorized signatures of persons authorized to make transactions on behalf of non-resident bank, including disposal of non-resident bank’s account. In case of electronic document turnover, the procedure of acknowledgement of autograph’s analogue is established and an Agreement on procedure and terms and conditions of autograph’s analogue utilization is concluded.
- If accounts in Russian rubles are opened with authorized banks the following non-resident banks do not submit documents:
- Central (national) banks of foreign states;
- non-resident banks corresponding to the requirements of the Central bank of the Russian Federation.
- Other documents specified by the current law and by the Bank’s requirements.
Notes:
- Official documents specified in the list and made up in the territory of the foreign state — a member of the Hague Convention are accepted by the Bank if they contain an apostil (a certification signature), put on the document or a separate sheet of paper by the competent body of the foreign state in accordance with the Hague Convention’s requirements.
Legalization and putting an apostil on documents specified in the list are not required, if documents have been made up:
- in the territory of foreign states — members of Convention on legal support and legal relations under civil, family and criminal cases (signed in Minsk on January 22, 1993.);
- in the territory of foreign states with which the Russian Federation concluded agreements on legal support and legal relations under civil, family and criminal cases.
- The power of attorney specified in item 5 of the list shall be notary certified. The power of attorney sent (brought in) from abroad shall be legalized either in the embassy (consulate) of the foreign state in the Russian Federation or by the embassy (consulate) of the Russian Federation abroad with notary certified translation.
- Documents made up in the foreign language and translated into the Russian language are submitted to the authorized bank. The translation should be notary certified. The translation of the Album of signatures of persons authorized to dispose the RR-account of non-resident bank into the Russian language is not required.
For registration of the foreign organization in the State Tax Inspection and receipt of the respective Certification by order established in the Regulations on characteristics of registration in tax bodies of foreign organizations approved by the Act of Ministry on Tax and Duties of Russia dd. April 07, 2000 # AP-3-06/14 the following documents are required:
- application for registration (Registration Certificate issue) by forms specified by the Act of Ministry on Tax and Duties of Russia # AP-3-06/124;
- certificate of the tax body of the foreign state (in an arbitrary form) on registration of the foreign state as a taxpayer in the country of the foreign organization with indication of the tax payer code (or its analogue);
- power of attorney on presenting interests of the foreign state in the State Tax Inspection at the time of registration.
