Privredna banka Zagreb dealing with foreign companies (non-residents) performs activities such as opening and managing business accounts, and providing its esteemed clients with all banking and consultancy services.
Non-Residents – Bank's clients can be:
legal entities domiciled abroad, representative offices of foreign legal persons in the Republic of Croatia, sole traders, crafts and other private individuals domiciled or resident abroad, who are self-employed and engage abroad in the economic activity of their registration, foreign diplomatic and consular representative offices in the Republic of Croatia and other extraterritorial organisations and bodies operating on the territory of the Republic of Croatia under bilateral or multilateral international agreements ratified by the Republic of Croatia, foreign associations and other foreign organisations, individuals residing abroad and branches of resident companies operating abroad.
The Bank shall open the account pursuant to the Request for the opening and managing of non-resident's-legal entity's account, to which enclosed shall be all documents prescribed by law or by other regulations and the Contract signed by non-resident's authorised representative.
When opening an account, a non-resident (legal entity, sole trader, craftsman, other self-employed individuals engaged abroad in the economic activity of its registration and a branch of a resident company operating abroad), shall be under obligation to deliver to the Bank:
- Certificate of incorporation from the register of companies kept in the domicile country, or, if registered in a country where no such register exists, another valid incorporation document, in accordance with regulations of a non-resident's domicile country, evidencing its legal form and time of incorporation. The document shall be issued not more than three months beforehand. The document shall be provided both in the original language and certified Croatian or English translation.
- Signature card (specimen), with signatures of persons authorised to dispose of funds in account, signed by non-resident's legal representative.
- Certified copy of authorised persons' identity cards, if the private individual authorised to transact in non-resident account is not personally coming to the Bank;
- Most recent available annual report
- Certificate of tax payer identification number (hereinafter: TPIN), issued by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia – Tax Administration.
- Filled out Bank's forms:
-Request for the opening and managing of non-resident's-legal entity's account
-Contract on the Opening and Managing of Accounts held by Non-Residents
-Registration of signatures
-Data on client's beneficial owners
-Questionnaire for non-resident clients
-Questionnaire for politically exposed persons.
When opening a non-resident account with the Bank, a foreign diplomatic and consular representative offices, UN representative office and international organization representative office (instead of Certificate of incorporation from the register of companies kept in the domicile country) shall hand over Certificate issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integrations of the Republic of Croatia confirming that the representative office has been entered in their records, with enclosed list of notified persons.
International mission operating under an international act shall submit to the Bank (instead of Certificate of incorporation from the register of companies kept in the domicile country) request for the opening and managing non-resident account clearly outlining its full name and the title of the international act pursuant to which the mission operates and papers on accreditation of the international mission with the competent body in the Republic of Croatia.
Foreign associations, representative offices of foreign foundations, endowment funds and other foreign non-profit organisations operating on the territory of the Republic of Croatia, shall provide to the Bank (instead of Certificate of incorporation from the register of companies kept in the domicile country) excerpt from the Register kept by a competent body in the Republic of Croatia, issued not more than three months beforehand.