Account details are a set of details for a currency to receive money.
Once you have your GBP account details, you’ll have your own account number, sort code and BIC where you can receive British pounds.
This isn’t a traditional bank account, but you can receive money in the same way by sharing the account number and sort code with friends, family, clients or companies, so that they can send you money.
They can pay you locally from their British bank, or internationally by Swift. Once you receive the money, it’ll be credited to your GBP balance.
Opening new account details
You’ll first need to open a GBP balance. Then you select Get your account details and follow the steps.
We’ll need to verify you before we can provide details to you.
Checking your account details
To see your details once you’ve got them, on the app or web:
Go on your GBP balance
Select the account details button just under the currency
You can view and copy your local account details to share with others
If you want to get paid internationally by Swift — toggle Global ・ Swift at the top
You can also request payments from your sender.
How your GBP account details work
Here is some general information about your account details.
| Payment Type | Local Payment | Global Payments |
|---|---|---|
| You can receive | Bank transfers in GBP from the UK | Swift in GBP |
| You can't receive | Transfers from UK Superannuation Funds | Swift in currencies other than GBP |
| Receiving fees | None | None (correspondent bank fees may apply) |
| Receiving limits | None | None |
| Receiving speed | Up to 2 working days | up to 5 working days |
Payments from inside the United Kingdom
Share your local GBP details.
The sender’s bank will give them an estimate when they set up the payment — for any details about how long it takes, reach out to your sender so they can ask their bank.
Payments from outside the United Kingdom
Payments via Swift to GBP details
Share your global Swift account details with the person who wants to pay you. They can send Swift payments to your account from anywhere in the world.
They should only send you GBP to these account details, because we can't process international payments in any other currency.
You can receive in multiple different currencies to your GBP Swift/global account details: AED, GBP, EUR, USD, AUD, BGN, CAD, CHF, CZK, CNY, DKK, HKD, HUF, ILS, JPY, NOK, NZD, PLN, SEK, RON, SGD, UGX and ZAR.
We don’t charge any additional fees to receive international payments in GBP, but correspondent banks might apply their own fees.