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Estonian IBAN is not required.

I am not sure when Google removed this requirement, but nowadays it is not longer mandatory to use an Estonian IBAN to receive payments from Google. Now you can choose an IBAN from a lot of countries: You can use a bank account from any country in Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area When I […]

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Some interesting posts

I was checking my Linkedin and I found this posts about e-Residency. They have been written by an e-Resident who lives in Germany. At the moment he wrote 5 posts about e-Residency and how to manage a company remotely: 101: Why to Set up Shop in Estonia: This is a practical introduction to Estonia’s e-Residency. […]

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Recapping

Two years ago I picked-up my e-Residency kit in Paris. It was a stressful weekend but at the end everything went fine. Two years later it’s time to recap and I want to start with a list of my partners. Usually I spent some time choosing them, because of that all of them are still […]

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One more Estonian IBAN

Things are changing for the better. We have a new option for having an Estonian IBAN: Airwallex. Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a payments platform transforming the way businesses move and manage money globally. I saw in the Facebook Group of e-Residency that a new option was available. Before writing this post I […]

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Estonian IBAN (October 2021)

The number of banks and fintechs that can offer us an Estonian IBAN has changed a lot since I wrote the first post about this topic. Fortunately, now there are more options. Read the last post on e-Residency blog about business banking: https://e-resident.gov.ee/blog/posts/new-business-banking-options-in-the-e-residency-marketplace This is a comparison based on e-Residency Marketplace and their websites: Bank/Fintech […]

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Visiting Estonia in COVID times (III – The extra mile)

If you have enough time you can visit two cities near Tallinn, Tartu in Estonia and Helsinki in Finland. Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia. It is often considered the intellectual center of the country, it is home to the nation’s oldest and most renowned university, the University of Tartu. More info […]

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Visiting Estonia in COVID times (II)

In this post I will give you some tips about visiting Estonia but I will not explain my trip in detail. First of all, I want to say that I planed almost all my trips within Estonia using Google Maps, it’s very easy and reliable. Open the app in your smartphone, search for the destination […]

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Visiting Estonia in COVID times (I)

I know that it is not the best moment to write this kind of post, but sooner or later we will be able to travel again. May be you remember that I have applied for a LHV bank account and I have been pre-aproved, so I had to travel to Estonia to visit a branch […]

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Annual report

After the post about applying for a LHV account, I planned a post about traveling to Estonia to sign the documents in a LHV branch and visiting this beautiful country, but I think that now it is not the right time to write a post about traveling, so instead of that post, I am writing […]

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Applying for a LHV bank account

If you have read my post about Estonian IBAN you know that for a lot of companies there few options for having this IBAN. In my opinion the best one is an LHV account. LHV is a traditional bank from Estonia. But before to apply, read this information about them in the e-Residency Marketplace: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/company/lhv […]