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You can't open or hold a Revolut Business account if you carry out any sort of business or activity related to the following areas:

• Weapons, defence, and armaments
• Adult content and services
• Auctions and fine art dealing
• Cannabinoids and controlled chemicals
• Unregulated or high-risk financial services
• Diplomatic or political entities
• Gambling and quasi-cash merchants
• Charities, foundations, trusts, and religious organizations
• Secondhand vehicles and heavy equipment
• Special purpose vehicles/entities
• Streaming and video game arcades
• Trading restricted/endangered animal/plant products
• Pyramid and get-rich-quick schemes
• Oil, gas, and certain industrial sectors
• Fake or counterfeit goods
• Precious metals & stone dealers

We're unable to onboard any business (in any country) that:

• Produces, owns, sells, distributes, or supplies original materials to produce any goods on the strategic export control lists in the UK. Check the list at this page
• Produces, owns, sells, distributes, or supplies original materials to produce goods requiring a general licence under end-use controls
• Involves sectors that may be subject to sanctions, such as the petroleum industry and the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (for example, by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products

• Blockchain consulting, application development, and technology service providers
• Blockchain/crypto news, learning, and development platforms
• Companies that accept or pay with cryptocurrency

We don't accept:

• Cryptocurrency exchanges, brokers, and dealers
• Ramp-up/ramp-down service providers, including crypto ATMs
• Most ICO providers
• Crypto mining, investment, or trading firms
• Crypto asset and investment management firms
• NFT platforms
• Regulated and unregulated custodial and non-custodial wallets

You can't use a Revolut Business account to process money from clients, regardless of your business type. You can't hold, exchange, transfer, or manage client funds in a Revolut Business account.

Client funds refer to any money that still belongs to your customers. For example, in funding accounts. Any customer money you deposit must be in the form of earnings (profits) you've received from customers in exchange for products and services.