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Revolut has restricted transfers to customers cards in France. The list includes 52 countries

Revolut sent a letter to clients living in France about the new restrictions. Oninvest has the letter and its receipt was confirmed by two clients of the neobank living in France.

In the letter, Revolut notifies of the inability to credit money to the account from cards issued by banks from more than 50 countries. The list includes Monaco, Israel, Serbia and also a number of countries of mass relocation of Russians after 2022.

Here is the full list of countries listed in Revolut's letter, as seen by Oninvest:

  • Asia: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, North Korea, Georgia, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UAE, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen.

  • Europe: Belarus, Monaco, Russia, Serbia.

  • Africa: Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Libya, Ma, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

  • North America: Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago.

  • South America: Venezuela.

  • Oceania: Vanuatu.

Earlier on December 2, Oninvest wrote that Russians living in the EU faced the impossibility to replenish their Revolut accounts from the cards of banks of CIS countries - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Oninvest became aware of five such cases. None of the banks from whose cards users tried to make transfers are under sanctions.

Clients contacted by Oninvest contacted the Revolut support service, where they referred to the Terms and Conditions and rules of the service, as well as to the changed compliance policy of international payment systems, which the unbank is obliged to follow. According to them, some countries were categorized by international payment systems as high risk for card top-up transactions.

"This is not a decision that Revolut made on its own, but a necessary compliance with the requirements of our payment processing partners," Revolut's support team told one of Oninvest's interlocutors.

Oninvest has sent requests to Revolut, Mastercard and Visa.

This article was AI-translated and verified by a human editor

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