Outgoing Foreign Currency Remittance Application Process

Verification Documents

• If you plan to remit funds between your Sony Bank account and your own overseas bank account, you will need to pre-register your overseas address, country name (country of residence), and your Taxpayer Identification Number in your home country, through the "Tax Residency Form for Remittance". To make such remittances, please contact our English help desk.
  English help desk
• You may register up to a total of 10 remittance destinations in and outside Japan.
• The remitter's name must be the account holder's name as registered with Sony Bank.
• Depending on the results of our verification process, we may decline your pre-registration.
• The time it takes to complete your pre-registration may vary due to our verification process. Depending on the information required for our verification process, you may be asked to revise the remittance limit or other details of your pre-registration.
• If Sony Bank has requested more information for verification purposes, and has not received the requested information after one month, your pre-registration will be canceled.
• Approximately three to ten business days after you submit your application and our verification process is complete, you will receive an email from Sony Bank notifying you that the remittance details were successfully registered.
• The completion of pre-registration does not guarantee successful execution of the remittance.
• Remittances that exceed the "Number of remittances per year" or "Maximum remittance amount per year" declared at the time of pre-registration will not be accepted.
• In principle, pre-registrations are valid for one year from the date of completion. After the expiration date has passed, we will cancel your pre-registration.

In order to apply for pre-registration, you must submit your "My Number" (Individual Number).
Please follow the procedure from our "My Number" Submission page after signing in to our English online banking.

"My Number" Submission

If you are making an Outgoing foreign currency remittance to a financial institution located in Japan, you do not need to submit your "My Number."

Remittance requests that exceed the maximum remittance amount per year that you declared at the time of pre-registration may not be accepted.

You may need to submit additional documents for verification. If so, Sony Bank will send further instructions to your registered email address.
Please refer to our Verification Documents page for more details.

Verification Documents

• Sony Bank cannot accept cancelations after a remittance has been requested.
• From the time you submit your remittance application, until the successful execution of your remittance, the amount of your foreign currency remittance and fees will be considered outstanding funds. Outstanding funds cannot be remitted or withdrawn.
• Information submitted during pre-registration cannot be changed when making a remittance request. If changes are necessary, you will need to submit a new pre-registration.
• In principle, pre-registrations are valid for one year from the date of completion. After the expiration date has passed, we will cancel your pre-registration.
• Depending on the results of our verification process, we may decline your pre-registration.

• Sony Bank will execute remittance after verification.
• The timing of your remittance application affects the timing of its execution.

• If your remittance arrives at the beneficiary's bank on a bank holiday, such as Christmas or New Year's, it may take longer than usual until the beneficiary receives the funds.
• When the remittance execution has been made by Sony Bank, the remittance status will be updated, however, payment to the beneficiary's account is not guaranteed.
• Sony Bank will share your name, address and account number with the related banks when executing the remittance.
• If the remitted funds are refunded, we will notify you via email.