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Bank of China
- The company have to provide address proof, e.g. original water/telephone
bill, bank statement issued in their resident place.
- All directors, shareholders & bank authorized
signatories must come to Hong Kong, so the bank officer can witness their
signatures and verify their passport copies.
Standard Chartered Bank www.standardchartered.com/global/index.html
- All directors, shareholders & bank authorized
signatories need to provide address proof, e.g. original water/telephone
bill, bank statement issued within 2 months in their resident place.
- For any director/shareholder/bank authorized not having a
bank account with the SCB HK, a bank reference letter (sample please note
below) from the personal banker of each director/shareholder/bank authorized
signatory introducing him/her to open a bank account and the bank account
must have been opened for more than 6 months.
- All directors, shareholders & bank authorized
signatories must come to Hong Kong, so the bank officer can witness their
signatures and verify their passport copies.
- initial deposit is HK$50,000
HSBC www.hsbc.com
- For any director/shareholder/bank authorized not having a bank account
with the HSBC HK, a bank reference letter (sample please note
below) from the personal banker of each director/shareholder/bank
authorized signatory introducing him/her to open a bank account and the bank
account must have been opened for more than 12 months.
- evidence to prove the company's business activities,
ie invoice, contract and product catalogue
- Majority shareholders/ directors & bank authorized
signatories must come to HK for opening bank accounts and then come again
about 3 weeks later for collecting internet banking password in person
(there is no alternative).
- For the rest of directors & bank authorized
signatories who not come to HK must go to the HSBC branch/subsidiary in any
country to witness their signatures and verify their passport copies.
Timing
To open bank accounts with HSBC or SCB, it will open 2 - 3 weeks after submitting the
duly signed bank accounts opening forms and company's registration documents.
Operating Bank Accounts
Bank accounts in HK can be operated outside HK
in the following ways :
a. Phone
Banking Service/Internet Banking Service
HSBC or SCB provide Internet Banking
Service, by which you can use Internet to assess your bank accounts for making
balance enquiries and transfers. For HSBC, there will exempt HK$80 monthly fee if the
account maintaining up to HK$50,000- average balance per month. For SCB,
there will exempt HK$150 if the account maintaining up to HK$50,000 average
daily balance.
b. ATM Card
You can use their ATM card to withdraw money
from the Company's bank accounts using any specified ATM machines (
"Plus" for HSBC )("Cirrus" for SCB) in the world. There will be a bank charge for
each transaction and some exchange loss.
Fee
Our fee for assistance in opening bank accounts is US$150.
Sample
Bank Reference Letter
TO BE PROVIDED ON BANK'S LETTERHEAD
RE : PERSON'S NAME
We
would advise that *Person's Name* , *ID/passport no.*
had maintained a *Saving/Current* Account with our Office since *Date*
(must be more than one year) with good records.
We
give the foregoing information without any responsibility on the part of the
Bank or any of its officers.
Yours faithfully,
*signature + bank chop*
Banker
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OF REFERENCE LETTER
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