Dear Client,
below please find a set of questions, which are commonly being asked by Polish commercial banks in the KYC (Know Your Client) procedure, which is essential to open a bank account for Companies in Poland.
Please answer these questions in as much detail as possible, as without detailed answers the process of opening bank account for your Company may become hindered.
Please keep in mind, that the banks may ask some other, more specific questions which aren't included in the questionnaire. We will inform you about them via e-mail.
1. Please indicate personal data of Company's UBO's (name, surname, date of birth, citizenship, residence country, residence address)
2. Cities of birth and countries of residence of Company's representatives (if multiple residencies please provide all)
3. Tax residence countries and TIN (tax identification numbers) for Company representatives
4. Contact e-mail addresses and phone numbers for the Company representatives
5. Web address and main contact data (phone and email) of the Company (for example to the main office/reception)
6. Will the Company run business in other countries than the country of its registration? If yes, please provide list of all countries, where business activity is conducted.
7. What is the business profile of the Company - what are the activities Company is going to conduct. Please decribe it in as much detail as possible.
8. What are the main products or services offered by the Company?
9. Does your Company conduct: intermediary in payment servicesoperations on investment platformstrading or intermediary regarding cryptocurrenciesintermediary in international tradepayment operations in the name of third partiesoperations related to physical cash transactions
10. Who are/will be the contractors of the Company? Please list them, including their name, country of registration, legal form and contact data (phone number/e-mail/website)
11. Does the Company have or is planning to hire any employees? If yes, please specify how many
12. Does the Company, Company's representative, shareholder (including parent companies) and/or UBO maintain a personal or business account in another bank in Poland. Please see the list of the banks: - ING Bank (Poland: ING Bank Śląski) - BNP Paribas (Poland: BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A.) - Santander Group (Poland: Santander Bank Polska S.A.) - mBank (Poland: mBank S.A.) - Millennium BCP (Poland: Bank Millennium S.A.) - Citi (or Citibank) (Poland: Citi Handlowy) - Crédit Agricole (Poland: Crédit Agricole Bank Polska S.A.)
13. Annual declared Company's income in PLN
14. What will be the sources of Company's income (e.g. sale of goods, dividend, bank loan)?
15. Please describe source of Company's assets (eg. shareholders own assets, corporate loans, donations etc.), and countries of origins of those assets.
16. Are you going to open accounts other than account in PLN? YesNo If you check yes please, specify in which currencies are you going to open other bank accounts
17. Is the Company, its directors (management board members), beneficial owners anyhow related to the high-risk countries ? Please, check a high-risk countries list available here YesNo
18. Will the Company conduct business with entities affiliated with high-risk countries? Please describe the nature of such business and provide information on the entities
19. Will the Company be carrying out transactions or is it associated with oil, weapons, dual-use goods, noble metals, tobacco products, cultural artifacts, ivory, endangered animal species or other objects of archaeological, historical, cultural and religious significance or of special scientific value? YesNo
20. Will the Company's representatives live in Poland? If no, please indicate how the Company will be managed, if the representatives are living abroad.
21. If the Company representatives do not live in Poland will they be able to visit the bank's branch in Poland in order to sign necessary documentation should the need arise?
22. Please indicate a percentage of transactions, which will be performed by using cash.
23. If the Company is using a virtual office, are you going to look for a real office anytime soon? YesNo
24. What is the actual place of conducting business activities (if different than the address of the Company's registration)?
25. Does the Company own/rent (or is planning to own/rent) any additional addresses of conducting business activity (shops/warehouses/offices)?
26. Is the Company a "special purpose company"? Such companies are being set up for a very specific, precise goal, and usually its existence is being limited in time. YesNo
27. Does the Company receive or plan to receive income from the rental, leasing or sale of property? YesNo
28. Please specify the estimated (it does not have to be an accurate business plan) monthly number and amount of transactions on the account. Please divide the estimation to incoming and outgoing transactions. estimated number and amount for outgoing transactions estimated number and amount for incoming transactions
29. What types financial transactions (eg. payments for services, tax clearances) will be conducted through the Company's account?
30. How the Company will acquire its clients?
31. Who will be authorized person for the account? Will it be only the directors, or would you like to authorize some third person outside of the management board?
32. Do the directors/UBO's of the Company have experience in the declared Company's business activitiy? If yes, please describe it. YesNo
33. Please list the companies, in which the shareholders of the Company are: 1) shareholders 2) UBO's 3) directors 4) proxies