Choose an Absa account to grow your business

Sole trader/Partnership

• Certificate of registration (certified copy)
• Company background/profile
• Copies of valid identity cards (NRC/Passport)- (certified copy)
• Passport-size photos for proprietors
• Confirmation of physical address for all directors, signatories and shareholders by a law firm/auditor, an existing Absa customer, utility bill in directors', signatories' and shareholders' name not older than 3 months
• Board resolution (for partnerships)
• Partnership deed or form 2 (for partnerships) from Registrar of Companies
• Latest annual return
• Company form 3
• ZRA tax certificate (certified copy)

CACTS (clubs, associations, charities, trusts, and societies)

• Certificate of registration (certified copy)
• Letter written on organisation’s letterhead (requesting for business account)
• Constitution
• Profile of organisation
• List of trustees/members
• Copies of valid identity cards (NRC/passport) for all signatories/trustees passport-size photos for all signatories and trustees
• Confirmation of physical address for all directors, signatories and shareholders by a law firm/auditor, an existing Absa customer, utility bill in directors, signatories and shareholders' name not older than 3 months
• Board resolution to open an account with Absa Bank Zambia Plc signed by at least 2 directors
• ZRA tax certificate (certified copy)

Public limited and private limited companies

• Certificate of incorporation (certified copy)
• Certificate of share capital (certified copy)
• Articles of association (certified copy)
• Company profile
• ZRA tax certificate (certified copy)
• NRC copy or passport copies for all directors, signatories and shareholders (certified copy)
• One passport-size photo for all directors, signatories, and shareholders
• Request letter addressed to the manager
• Form 2,5 and 11 or Form 3 (certified copy)
• Latest annual return (certified copy)
• Confirmation of physical address for all directors, signatories and shareholders by a law firm/auditor, an existing Absa customer, utility bill in directors', signatories' and shareholders' name not older than 3 months
• Board resolution to open an account with Absa Bank Zambia Plc signed by at least 2 directors