Canadian business account preparation for a Singapore-resident founder

Direct answer

A Singapore-resident founder can prepare a Canadian business-account application for a Canadian or Quebec corporation, or in some cases for a Singapore entity carrying on activity in Canada. The bank still decides whether the applicant is eligible, whom it must identify, which evidence it accepts, whether a digital step is available and whether anyone must attend a Canadian branch.

The strongest file separates eight questions that are often collapsed into one:

1. Who is the natural person, and where does that person actually reside?
2. Which exact legal entity will own the Canadian account?
3. Is a Singapore company a shareholder, the applicant, or merely an affiliated business?
4. Which identifier belongs to which person or entity?
5. Who ultimately owns or controls every layer?
6. Why is a Canadian account commercially necessary?
7. Where did the first and future funds economically originate, and how will they move?
8. Which address is residential, registered, mailing, records, service or operating?

Under FINTRAC's prescribed photo-identification method, a Canadian reporting entity can use an equivalent photo document issued by a foreign government if it is authentic, valid and current and the name and photograph match the person. A current Singapore passport may therefore be useful identity evidence. It does not force a bank to accept that passport, establish current residence, supply a Canadian SIN or make the application remote. [1]

A 2727 Coworking agreement can support only the Montreal commercial address, mail handling or workspace service actually included in the selected plan. It cannot become the founder's home in Singapore, an NRIC or FIN record, a Canadian tax number, evidence of employees or management in Montreal, immigration authorization, proof of source of funds, or a bank-approval guarantee.

Choose the account holder before collecting documents

"My Canadian business" is not a legal applicant. Write the proposed account holder's full legal name, governing law and entity type before ordering records or an address service.

Quebec states that a legal person not constituted in Quebec that carries on an activity there must file a declaration of registration within 60 days after commencing activities. A foreign enterprise without a domicile, business address or establishment in Quebec may also need to declare a mandatary. Those are fact-dependent registry rules, not a recommendation to use the Singapore entity and not a promise of banking eligibility. [13]

Before contacting a bank, complete this sentence without using "and/or":

The proposed account holder is [full legal name], a [jurisdiction and entity type] formed on [date], identified by [its own registry and tax numbers], owned [directly or indirectly] by [people and percentages], and authorized to open and operate the account by [specific resolution or governing authority].

If that sentence cannot be completed, pause the address and bank applications. A polished document folder cannot repair an undecided applicant.

Use a staged workflow

The order reduces wasted subscriptions, authentication work and travel.

1. Name the applicant. Choose the Canadian corporation, Quebec corporation, Singapore entity or Canadian subsidiary.
2. Pull current official records. Compare the exact legal name, entity number, status, registered office, directors, shareholders and filing dates across Canadian and Singapore registries.
3. Organize the applicant. Document directors, officers, shareholders, signing authorities, account operators and transaction limits.
4. Trace ownership. Start at the applicant and end at natural persons; show direct and indirect percentages and control rights.
5. Create one file per person. Record legal name, date of birth, citizenship, occupation, passport, true residential address, tax residence and role.
6. Map identifiers. Put passport number, NRIC, FIN, UEN, IRAS reference, SIN, BN, CRA program account and NEQ in separate labelled fields.
7. Map addresses. Label every location as residential, registered office, mailing, records, address for service, principal business or operating.
8. Describe the business. Explain products, customers, contracts, countries, currencies, volumes and the reason for a Canadian account.
9. Document funding. Separate paid-up capital, shareholder loan, intercompany transfer, sales receipts and other sources.
10. Check Singapore authority. If a Singapore company funds or owns the applicant, document its board approval, signers and any shareholder or lender authorization.
11. Pre-screen the Canadian bank route. Send a concise structure summary and obtain written answers about eligibility, originals, attendees, address evidence and remote steps.
12. Ask the recipient about document form. Obtain certification, notarization, apostille and translation instructions for each named record.
13. Confirm the address field. Ask what the bank means by business, registered, mailing and operating address and which document it accepts for each.
14. Arrange travel only after a named appointment. Confirm who must attend, what must be original and what can actually be completed.
15. Recheck immediately before submission. Registry, bank, travel and tax guidance can change.

Build the founder's identity and Singapore residence file

Identity, immigration status, residential address, tax residence and corporate authority are different evidence categories.

Singpass's published registration guide limits ordinary account eligibility to Singapore Citizens, Permanent Residents and FIN holders. It also tells users to keep the address on their NRIC or FIN card correct. A person who merely resides, invests or owns a company in Singapore should not assume that a passport or UEN creates ordinary Singpass eligibility. [2]

ICA says Singapore citizens and permanent residents, including those residing overseas, must report a residential-address change within 28 days. Its process uses a PIN mailer sent to the new address for verification. That is useful evidence that the government distinguishes a real residence from a company address; it is not a Canadian bank document list. [3]

Resolve spelling, name order, aliases, previous passports, old addresses and role differences before submission. Do not change a truthful answer to make two systems look identical. Explain the difference and ask whether the bank wants an original, certified copy, independent electronic check or another linking record.

Treat Singpass and MyInfo as channels, not credentials that guarantee banking

Singpass is an access mechanism. MyInfo is a consent-based data-retrieval service. Neither proves that a Canadian bank will accept a person, an entity or a proposed address.

The official Singpass partner-support page says a Singpass Foreign Account and a Corppass account created with a foreign ID cannot perform MyInfo Business retrieval. It also says an SFA is issued by a particular agency or digital service and can be used only with that issuer. A foreign founder who can enter one Singapore government portal may therefore still be unable to use a MyInfo Business flow elsewhere. [4]

Before relying on a digital workflow, ask:

• Is the flow ordinary Singpass, Singpass Foreign Account, Corppass, MyInfo personal or MyInfo Business?
• Which user segments are eligible?
• Is a FIN required, and must it be valid?
• Is there a manual alternative if the founder cannot retrieve MyInfo?
• Does the Canadian bank use any Singapore digital-identity data, or does it require its own verification?
• Can the person authenticate remotely while outside Singapore?

Never give another person Singpass credentials or a one-time password. If an accountant, corporate secretary or employee has a corporate role, document that authority through the proper business-access and resolution process.

Keep Singapore and Canadian identifiers in separate columns

The OECD's Singapore TIN profile, based on jurisdiction-provided information, describes UEN types for entities and NRIC or FIN types for individuals. It also notes that IRAS may issue an ASGD or ITR reference to an individual or entity without NRIC, FIN or UEN. The identifier therefore depends on the holder and system; "Singapore TIN" is not one universal number. [10]

CRA describes a BN as a unique nine-digit identifier for a business and says program accounts are added to an existing BN. Its non-resident registration route expressly covers a business incorporated outside Canada and an individual who does not have a SIN. This does not mean every applicant needs a BN immediately, that no bank may ask about a SIN, or that a tax registration creates bank eligibility. [11] [12]

When a form says "tax identification number," ask which person or entity, which country, which law and which reporting purpose the field concerns. Do not put a UEN in a SIN field, an NRIC in a BN field or an NEQ in a Singapore tax field merely because the form accepts the character count.

Prepare Singapore corporate records as a coherent chain

ACRA says its Business Profile provides basic entity information such as UEN, name, registration date and information about position holders, owners or partners. Bizfile's free entity search can show basic status and registered-address information. Use current products obtained through the official service and record the retrieval date. [5] [6]

For a Singapore parent, corporate shareholder or direct applicant, prepare:

• current ACRA Business Profile and entity-search result;
• certificate of incorporation or registration and constitution;
• current registers or official extracts for members, directors, CEO and secretary as relevant;
• board and shareholder approvals for the investment, loan, account and signers;
• share allotment, transfer and nominee records;
• current registered office and actual operating locations;
• latest annual return, financial statements and tax records appropriate to the request;
• contracts, invoices, website and commercial explanation supporting the Canadian activity; and
• a document index showing issuer, entity, date, language, certification and expiry or currency.

Do not use the ACRA record of one Singapore company to support another group company. Match the UEN, legal name and entity type on every page. If the Canadian applicant is owned by a Singapore company that is itself owned by another entity, obtain records for every layer.

ACRA distinguishes a registered office from the people and activities of the company. Its guidance also requires Singapore companies to keep current records of directors, shareholders and other key persons. A bank may still ask where management, staff, customers and records actually are. [9]

Trace ownership to natural persons

ACRA describes the Register of Registrable Controllers as a private register containing particulars of individuals or legal entities with significant ownership or control. Its significant-interest test for a share-capital company refers to more than 25% of shares or voting power, and it says rights can be held directly or indirectly. [7] [8]

Canadian bank KYC does not stop at an ACRA corporate controller. FINTRAC defines beneficial owners as natural persons who directly or indirectly own or control at least 25% of a corporation or other entity and says beneficial owners cannot be corporations, trusts or other entities. Reporting entities must take reasonable measures to confirm accuracy. [17]

Build one chart from the proposed Canadian account holder to people:

Keep the tests separate. Singapore RORC, Canadian federal ISC, Quebec ultimate-beneficiary disclosure and FINTRAC KYC have different definitions, thresholds, filing visibility and purposes. A person can be relevant because of control even when a simple share percentage does not tell the whole story. Federal corporations are required to keep and file information on individuals with significant control, including certain ownership, voting and control-in-fact cases. [16]

Give every address one truthful role

An address is evidence of a relationship to a place, not a transferable label.

Corporations Canada says a federal registered office cannot be a post-office box and is the location where official documents are served. CRA describes a physical address as the place where day-to-day activities occur. Those are different roles. [15] [36]

Ask the bank to name the exact field and acceptable document. "We need a Canadian address" is not precise enough. Never state that employees, inventory, management, records or customer service are in Montreal unless those facts are true and documented.

Explain business purpose, expected activity and source of funds

FINTRAC requires reporting entities to keep the purpose and intended nature of a business relationship. Its guidance defines source of funds as the economic origin of particular funds, not simply the bank or country from which a wire arrives. [19]

Prepare a one-page account narrative:

• exact account holder and relationship to the founder and Singapore group;
• product or service sold and current development stage;
• reason a Canadian account is needed;
• customer, supplier, employee and contractor locations;
• expected incoming and outgoing countries and currencies;
• monthly transaction count, value ranges and largest expected payments;
• cash, cheque, card, wire, payroll, tax and foreign-exchange needs;
• first deposit amount, owner, economic origin and legal form;
• whether payments involve regulated, high-risk or restricted sectors; and
• records available to substantiate each statement.

For each first-funding path, make a separate evidence row:

MAS's published exchange-control liberalisation notice says no exchange-control formalities or approvals are required for payments or capital transfers under that regime. That narrow statement does not eliminate bank AML review, sanctions, tax, corporate authority, payment-service rules or the recipient bank's questions. MAS Notice 626 defines a beneficial owner as the natural person who ultimately owns or controls the customer and applies customer-due-diligence requirements to Singapore banks. [20] [21]

Do not describe a transfer as "clean" or "approved" merely because it left a Singapore account. Preserve statements, contracts, resolutions, sender and beneficiary details, currency conversions, fees and payment references.

Authenticate, certify and translate only for the recipient

Certification, notarization, apostille and translation solve different problems.

1. Ask the Canadian bank which exact document needs treatment.
2. Ask whether it wants an original, registry download, certified true copy, notarized copy or issuer verification.
3. Ask whether an apostille is required for that document and use.
4. Ask who may translate, whether the translation must be certified and whether source and translation must remain attached.
5. Confirm whether a digitally verifiable ACRA or government record should remain in its native form.

SAL says the receiving party or country establishes legalisation requirements. It can directly legalise verifiable Singapore government documents, while a private document must first be notarized by a Singapore Notary Public and the Notarial Certificate authenticated by SAL. It also warns that publicly available government documents may not be legalised and that the recipient should be asked directly. [22]

Singapore's Apostille Convention process came into force on 16 September 2021, and SAL is its designated competent authority for Singapore documents used overseas. Canada says the Convention took effect there on 11 January 2024. An apostille authenticates the origin of a covered public document; it does not prove the truth of every statement, validate a translation, establish beneficial ownership or force a bank to accept the document. [23] [24]

Compare published bank routes without treating them as approval

Public pages describe starting points, not a Singapore-founder eligibility matrix.

See the institution-specific research for RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and Desjardins. The source pages are the institutions' own: [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]

Online, virtual, telephone, callback and branch are channel labels. None means guaranteed end-to-end completion, activation, cards, credit, foreign exchange or approval.

Plan travel around a confirmed bank appointment

Do not buy a flight because a generic page says "visit a branch." First obtain a named contact, branch, date, attendee list, original-document list and written description of what the appointment can complete.

IRCC distinguishes a business visitor from a person who may need a work permit, and its travel checker determines whether the traveller needs an eTA or visa based on current facts and mode of travel. A bank appointment does not grant entry or permission to work. [31] [32]

Confirm how cards, tokens, PINs and correspondence will be delivered after the meeting and whether a Canadian phone number is operationally required. Do not assume a successful appointment equals an active, unrestricted account.

Ask these exact questions before subscribing or travelling

1. Will you consider [full legal applicant], formed in [jurisdiction], with a founder residing in Singapore?
2. Is the Singapore company a shareholder, applicant or related party in your records?
3. Which owners, controllers, directors, officers and signers must be identified?
4. Must the ownership chart end at natural persons, and what supporting record is required for each link?
5. Will you accept the founder's current passport? What second identity or Singapore address evidence is required?
6. Can the founder use a manual path if Singpass or MyInfo Business is unavailable?
7. Which UEN, NRIC, FIN, IRAS reference, SIN, BN, program account and NEQ fields are required, and for which holder?
8. Which Canadian formation, status, governance and signing records are required?
9. Which ACRA products and Singapore corporate records must be current, certified or apostilled?
10. What do you mean by residential, registered, business, operating and mailing address?
11. Will you review the proposed 2727 agreement for [named field] before purchase?
12. What source-of-funds, source-of-wealth and business-purpose evidence is expected?
13. Which steps can begin remotely, and which can actually be completed remotely?
14. Who must attend a branch, at which location and with which originals?
15. Are video identification, certified copies or consular/notarial steps available?
16. Does any document need an apostille or certified translation? Who may perform it?
17. Are there sector, country, currency, expected-volume or counterparty restrictions to discuss?
18. What initial deposit is required, in whose name, and by what permitted method?
19. How are cards, tokens, online access and tax forms delivered?
20. What can still cause decline, delay, restriction or later account closure?

Record the date, institution, team and exact answer. A verbal answer from an unnamed call-centre agent is not a reusable approval.

Common failure modes

Applying under the wrong entity

The founder submits the Singapore parent's UEN and financials while the intended account holder is a Canadian subsidiary. Fix the applicant sentence first, then rebuild every supporting field around that entity.

Treating Singapore residence as one status

Singapore citizenship, permanent residence, FIN-based immigration status, physical residence and tax residence are not synonyms. Record each separately and use the evidence relevant to the question.

Assuming Singpass makes every flow available

An ordinary Singpass account, SFA, Corppass and MyInfo Business have different eligibility and functions. A successful login to one service does not unlock another or satisfy Canadian KYC.

Stopping ownership at the Singapore company

The ACRA corporate shareholder can be relevant to Singapore's RORC, but FINTRAC asks Canadian institutions to identify natural persons. Chart every layer and explain nominees, trusts and special control.

Using UEN as a universal tax or bank number

UEN identifies a Singapore entity. It is not the founder's NRIC or FIN and cannot replace the Canadian applicant's BN, corporation number or NEQ.

Using one address everywhere

The founder's Singapore residence, the Singapore registered office and the Canadian company's registered, mailing and operating addresses may all differ. Repeating the Montreal address can create contradictions instead of coherence.

Calling mail service an operating office

A mailbox or mail-handling agreement does not establish employees, management, inventory or day-to-day business. Describe only the service actually purchased.

Sending funds with no transaction narrative

A wire receipt shows movement, not economic origin or legal form. Preserve the equity, loan, revenue or intercompany documentation and the Singapore sender's authority.

Apostilling everything

SAL says the recipient determines the requirement. Apostilling the wrong record wastes time and does not cure outdated registry data, a weak translation or missing ownership evidence.

Booking travel before pre-screening

A branch can still reject an unsupported structure or ask another person to attend. Travel after the named team confirms the file and appointment.

Treating an online start as remote completion

An application may begin online and continue by phone, video, callback or branch. Ask for the complete sequence, including activation and delivery.

Seeking a tax result from an address

A registered office, mailing address, account or short visit is not a tax opinion. Corporate residence, carrying on business, permanent establishment and treaty benefits depend on broader facts.

Tax, treaty and permanent-establishment caveats

Keep banking and tax analyses separate.

IRAS says a company's Singapore tax residence turns on where control and management is exercised and that this is a question of fact; a Singapore incorporation or registered office alone is not the full test. CRA's corporate-residence guidance likewise discusses incorporation and central management and control. [35] [33]

The Canada-Singapore convention defines a permanent establishment around a fixed place through which business is carried on and includes additional fact patterns. It also has residence, business-profits and dual-residence rules. A Montreal address can be one fact, but the agreement does not let this page determine residence, PE or treaty entitlement. [34]

Foreign ownership can also affect Canadian-controlled private corporation status and related tax outcomes. Do not infer CCPC status, treaty residence, management location, withholding, GST/HST, payroll or permanent establishment from incorporation, ownership, a bank account or a 2727 agreement. Obtain coordinated Canadian and Singapore advice based on directors' decisions, contracts, personnel, premises, agents, revenue and actual operations.

Final application checklist

Applicant and governance

• One exact legal account holder selected
• Formation and current-status records retrieved
• Directors, officers, shareholders and signers reconciled
• Resolution authorizes the account, signers and funding
• BN, program accounts, NEQ and corporate numbers assigned to the correct entity

Founder and other people

• Current passport and bank-approved identity method
• True current Singapore residential address
• NRIC, FIN or IRAS reference recorded only when applicable
• Citizenship, immigration status, physical residence and tax residence separated
• Occupation, employer, role and signing authority documented
• Name and address differences explained with linking evidence

Singapore entity

• Correct UEN and current ACRA Business Profile
• Constitution, certificate and official extracts indexed
• Members, directors, officers and registered office current
• RORC, nominee and control questions reviewed
• Board/shareholder authority for ownership, loan, transfer and account
• Financial, tax and commercial records match the narrative

Ownership and control

• Chart runs from Canadian applicant to natural persons
• Direct and indirect percentages shown
• Voting, economic, veto, appointment and other control rights explained
• Singapore RORC, Canadian ISC/Quebec filings and bank KYC reconciled
• Supporting record listed beside every ownership link

Addresses

• Founder residence remains the true Singapore residence
• Singapore registered office matches ACRA
• Canadian registered office and service obligations confirmed
• Mailing, records and operating locations kept separate
• CRA physical address follows actual day-to-day activity
• Bank confirms the exact 2727 document for the exact field

Business and funds

• Canadian-account purpose is specific and commercially supported
• Expected countries, currencies, values, volumes and counterparties disclosed
• First and future funds classified as equity, loan, revenue or other
• Economic source and complete transfer path documented
• Singapore corporate authority and bank requirements confirmed

Bank, authentication and travel

• Named bank team reviewed a structure summary
• Owners, controllers, signers, originals and address evidence confirmed
• Manual alternative confirmed if a digital identity flow is unavailable
• Certification, apostille and translation instructions obtained in writing
• Remote, phone, video and branch steps separately listed
• IRCC travel requirements independently checked
• Activation, cards, tokens, funding and follow-up plan confirmed

What 2727 can and cannot document

2727 can issue the agreement and service records included in the selected plan for the Montreal commercial address, mail handling and workspace actually supplied. Before subscribing, send the bank the proposed document title and ask which named field it can support.

2727 cannot:

• certify a Singapore residential address;
• issue or replace a passport, NRIC, FIN, UEN, IRAS reference, SIN, BN or NEQ;
• create or register a Singapore or Canadian company;
• retrieve Singpass or MyInfo data;
• manufacture employees, operations, management or records in Montreal;
• prove source of funds or corporate authority;
• establish tax residence, CCPC status, treaty benefits or permanent establishment;
• provide immigration or travel authorization;
• guarantee remote completion, branch completion, activation or approval; or
• promise that any bank will accept a coworking, mailbox or service agreement.

If the bank needs a utility bill, residential record, operating-site proof or another item 2727 does not issue, use the truthful document that satisfies that requirement.

Research method and date

This guide was researched and verified on 20 August 2026. Discovery began with RankStudio's Exa search. Landed claims were checked against official ACRA, IRAS, ICA, Singpass, Ministry of Law, Singapore Academy of Law and MAS sources; Canadian sources include FINTRAC, CRA, Corporations Canada, Quebec, IRCC, the Canada-Singapore convention and six institutions' own public pages.

Public guidance does not reveal every risk rule, branch practice, digital-identity exception or document variant. Recheck current official sources and obtain case-specific answers immediately before filing, authenticating documents, moving funds or travelling.

Frequently asked questions

Can a Singapore-resident founder own a Canadian company and automatically get its bank account?

Ownership and banking are separate. The founder may be able to own the chosen entity, but the bank still reviews identity, ownership, authority, business purpose, countries, transactions and risk. No incorporation certificate creates a right to an account.

Is a Singapore passport enough?

No universal rule says so. A current passport may fit FINTRAC's foreign photo-ID method, but the bank can require residence evidence, a second method, corporate authority, originals or in-person steps.

Is an NRIC or FIN the same as a Canadian SIN?

No. They are Singapore identifiers for different eligible people. A SIN is a Canadian personal identifier. Enter each only in the field and for the holder to which it belongs.

Is UEN the same as a Canadian BN or NEQ?

No. UEN identifies the Singapore entity. BN identifies a Canadian business in CRA's system, while NEQ identifies an enterprise in Quebec's register.

Does the founder need a SIN?

Do not assume either answer. CRA has a non-resident registration route that expressly includes a person without a SIN, while banks may have separate questions or online-channel conditions. Ask why the number is requested.

Does Singpass guarantee MyInfo Business access?

No. Official support says SFA and foreign-ID Corppass accounts cannot perform MyInfo Business retrieval. Ordinary Singpass eligibility and available MyInfo fields also depend on user status.

Is an ACRA Business Profile enough for a Singapore parent?

Usually not as a complete bank file. It supports basic entity data, but the bank may need constitution, registers, resolutions, financials, controllers and the chain to natural persons.

Should the founder use a Singapore company or form a Canadian subsidiary?

That is a legal, tax, operational, funding and banking decision. A subsidiary is a separate Canadian person; registering a Singapore company in Quebec does not create one. Model both before choosing.

Can the 2727 address be the founder's residence?

No. 2727 does not provide housing. Use the founder's true Singapore residence and the personal evidence the bank accepts.

Can 2727 serve as the Canadian registered office?

Only if the plan, governing corporate law and actual service/records arrangements support that role. Bank acceptance is a separate decision. Confirm both before subscribing.

Does an apostille make an ACRA or private record acceptable?

Not automatically. The recipient decides whether authentication is required and in which form. An apostille addresses origin; it does not validate substance, translation or bank eligibility.

Can funds move from Singapore without exchange-control approval?

MAS's old but still published liberalisation notice says no exchange-control formalities or approvals are required under that regime. Banks still perform AML, sanctions and transaction review, and corporate, tax and contractual obligations remain.

Can everything be completed from Singapore?

Some stages may be remote, but no reviewed source guarantees end-to-end completion for this structure. Ask the named bank team which owners and signers must attend and what remains after the initial application.

Does opening the account create Canadian tax residence or a permanent establishment?

Not by itself. Corporate residence, carrying on business and PE depend on facts and applicable domestic and treaty rules. Obtain coordinated advice for the actual structure and operations.

What is the best first message to a bank?

Send a concise summary naming the applicant, jurisdiction, owners, signers, founder status and residence, business, expected transactions, first funding and proposed address roles. Ask for written answers to the twenty questions above before sending sensitive records.

Next step

If the bank has identified a specific Montreal registered, mailing or workspace field, review the 2727 business-address service and request the document sample for that exact plan. For the wider process, use the open-from-abroad guide, non-resident guide, without-SIN guide and the relevant federal-corporation or foreign-owned Quebec corporation workflow. Subscribe only after the institution confirms what the field means and whether the proposed evidence is acceptable.

References

1. FINTRAC - Methods to verify the identity of persons and entities
2. Singpass - Registration guide
3. Immigration and Checkpoints Authority - Change of residential address
4. Singpass Partner Support - Foreign accounts and MyInfo Business retrieval
5. ACRA - Types of business-information products
6. ACRA - Using Bizfile search functions
7. ACRA - Setting up and maintaining a Register of Registrable Controllers
8. ACRA - Identifying registrable controllers
9. ACRA - Registered-office requirements and common offences
10. OECD - Singapore tax-identification numbers
11. Canada Revenue Agency - Register as a non-resident doing business in Canada
12. Canada Revenue Agency - Business number and CRA program accounts
13. Government of Quebec - Register a legal person not constituted in Quebec
14. Government of Quebec - Quebec enterprise number
15. Corporations Canada - Registered office and first directors
16. Corporations Canada - Individuals with significant control
17. FINTRAC - Beneficial ownership requirements
18. Canada Revenue Agency - Entities holding accounts with Canadian financial institutions
19. FINTRAC - Business relationship requirements
20. Monetary Authority of Singapore - Exchange-control liberalisation
21. Monetary Authority of Singapore - Notice 626 on AML/CFT for banks
22. Singapore Academy of Law - Legalisation services FAQ
23. Singapore Ministry of Law - Singapore accedes to the Apostille Convention
24. Global Affairs Canada - Canada joins the Apostille Convention
25. RBC - Business onboarding checklist
26. TD - Business Digital Account and opening documents
27. BMO - How to open a business bank account
28. Scotiabank - How to open a business bank account
29. CIBC - How to open your first business bank account
30. Desjardins - Open a business bank account
31. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada - Business visitors
32. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada - Visa or eTA checker
33. Canada Revenue Agency - Residency of a corporation
34. Department of Finance Canada - Canada-Singapore Income Tax Convention
35. Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore - Company tax residence
36. Canada Revenue Agency - Change a business address