Supported industries

You cannot open or hold a Revolut account if you carry out any sort of business or activity that relates to the following:

• Armaments, nuclear, weapons or defence manufacturers
• Adult entertainment/Pornography
• Auction houses
• Cannabinoids (THC, CBD, CBN)
• Chemicals and allied products not elsewhere classified*
• Crowdfunding platforms
• Cryptocurrency firms**
• Consulates
• Dating escort services
• Diplomatic Offices
• Gambling
• Embassies
• Equity/mutual funds and other investment funds
• Fake goods/counterfeit consumer products
• Fine art dealers
• Foundations
• Funds (including venture capital funds)
• Non-profit organisations
• Pawnbrokers
• Pension schemes
• Political organisations and institutions
• Precious metals & stone dealers
• Quasi-cash merchants
• Religious organisations
• Registered and unregistered charities
• Second-hand car dealers
• Second-hand heavy construction equipment dealers
• Special Purpose Vehicle/Special Purpose Entity (SPV/SPE)
• Streaming companies (companies getting donations from viewers)
• Trusts
• Video game arcade
• Unregulated FX businesses
• Unregulated Loan businesses
• Unregulated Money Services businesses
• Unregulated Remittance business

*We can not onboard any business that (please note that these restrictions apply to all countries, not only the UK):

• Produce, own, sell, distribute or supply original materials to produce any goods that is on UK’s Strategic Export Control Lists. You can use this page to check.
• Produce, own, sell, distribute or supply original materials to produce any goods that is not on the Control Lists, but a general licence is required under End-Use Controls.
• Sectors that may be subject to sanction such as petroleum industry - the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.

**Accepted cryptocurrency firms:

• Companies that use blockchain technology
• Companies that accept/pay with crypto currency

**Unaccepted cryptocurrency firms:

• Companies that process funds to/from crypto exchanges
• Companies that are related to crypto trading (e.g. an exchange, a broker, an ICO specialist
• Businesses that work with client money can be accepted, but the account cannot be used to process client money (you cannot hold, exchange, transfer or manage client funds in a Revolut Business account. Client funds essentially means any money that belongs to your customers).