Who can open a bunq Business account in Ireland 🇮🇪

Hey bunqers 🌈 ,

We have a straightforward acceptance policy designed to protect you and your business. Check out the requirements for opening a Business Account in France below.

Who can open an account?

Here are the basic conditions you need to meet in order to open a bunq business account:

You need to have a verified personal account with bunq.
You as a director or sole proprietor can't be a minor.
Your business needs to be legitimate and registered in Ireland.
You must live permanently in the European Economic Area.
Your business should operate under one of the legal forms currently accepted by bunq. Find the full list here.
Your company’s business structure and activities should comply with bunq’s requirements. More details on this below.
Your business entity cannot have more than one account with bunq.
If your company has multiple trade names (under the same registration on the Chamber of Commerce) - you can effortlessly open a Bank Account with the different names like we explain here.
If the various layers of your company are registered as separate legal entities with the Chamber of Commerce, each one would need its own Business accounts.
You cannot open a Business account if any UBOs or non-executives reside outside of the EEA.

Once we confirm the above-mentioned conditions are met, we need to determine whether your business entity is registered with the local Chamber of Commerce or, in specific situations, you are operating on a freelance basis. Depending on that, we require different documents in order to approve your account.

Please also keep in mind that as a bank, we are legally required to store all of our user’s personal information in a secure and protected way. If there is more than one director, we create personal accounts for each director of the business accounts. It allows us to keep your information and your company’s information safe while complying with regulations. Check out this topic for more information.

Legal forms and documents

To open a business account with bunq, you need to provide a legal form together with a few documents. We accept the following legal forms:

Sole proprietor (also known as sole trader) trading under own name:
No additional documents needed
Sole proprietor (also known as sole trader) - trading under business name:
Company printout
Private Limited Company (LTD)
Company printout
Certificate of Incorporation
Joint Authorisation if the company has more than one director
IDs of all directors and Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs)
Owners’ Management Company (OMC)

Note: bunq Free is only available for the Sole proprietorship legal form.

Based on the legal form, we require the following documents:

Owners’ Management Company (OMC)
- Certificate of Incorporation
- Company Constitution
- CRO extract confirming registration, directors and status
- Board resolution authorising account opening and identifying authorised signatories
- If a managing agent has been appointed: Managing agent agreement
- If a managing agent is involved in account operation: Delegation/mandate confirming authority of the managing agent

Please find more information on legal documents here.

Company activities

In accordance with our acceptance policy, we do not support all types of businesses and activities. You can find more information on activities and check whether your business activity meets the requirements here.