Kyiv, Ukraine. Offshora has added two practical guides to its free English knowledge base at offshora.com. They cover a question founders usually meet only after the company already exists: who will actually process card payments and hold the money.
The first guide, Payment Processing for a Foreign Company, starts with Stripe's own country list as checked on October 23, 2026. The US, the UK, EU countries such as Cyprus and Estonia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UAE are on it. The British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Belize, Panama, the Cayman Islands and Georgia are absent. For an online store or a SaaS product this changes the order of decisions: the payment provider comes first and the jurisdiction second. The guide also walks through restricted industries, rolling reserves that hold part of each transaction for a period such as 30 days, and strong customer authentication under PSD2 (Directive (EU) 2015/2366, Article 97), which in practice means 3D Secure for European cardholders.
Full guide: https://offshora.com/en/guides/payment-processing-offshore-company/
The second guide, EMI vs Bank Account for an Offshore Company, compares the two types of institution clause by clause. Under the Electronic Money Directive 2009/110/EC an EMI may not take deposits (Article 6(2)) or pay interest on balances (Article 12), and client money is protected by safeguarding instead of a deposit guarantee. Bank deposits in the EU are covered up to EUR 100,000 per depositor under Directive 2014/49/EU, and in the United Kingdom the FSCS limit has been GBP 120,000 since December 1, 2025. The guide ends with a checklist: regulator and licence number, accepted countries of registration and residence, currencies and payment rails, industry limits, and the safeguarding method.
Full guide: https://offshora.com/en/guides/emi-vs-bank-account/
Both texts link onward to related material in the same knowledge base: preparing KYC documents for a foreign company (https://offshora.com/en/guides/corporate-kyc-documents/) and opening a traditional account (https://offshora.com/en/guides/foreign-company-bank-account/). Ukrainian and Russian versions of the knowledge base are available on the same site.
About Offshora
Offshora helps entrepreneurs, IT teams and trading businesses set up and run international companies in more than 20 jurisdictions, from the BVI, Belize and Seychelles to the UK, Cyprus, Estonia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UAE and US LLCs in Delaware and Wyoming. Services include company registration and annual maintenance, ready-made companies, preparation for bank and EMI accounts, accounting and economic substance support. Website: https://offshora.com/en/
Media contact: Tatiana Koval, Marketing Manager, [email protected]
Offshora, a corporate services team that registers and maintains international companies, has published two English guides on getting paid after incorporation: one on card acquiring through Stripe and other PSPs, one on the difference between an EMI and a bank account. Both guides start from the same practical point: the country of registration decides which payment and banking providers will onboard the company.
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