🌎 With Holvi you can now send and receive euros and 19 other currencies via SWIFT – to and from over 60 supported countries.
SWIFT payments are international transfers, used when the recipient is outside the SEPA area or within the SEPA area but the currency is not euro. They are the most common method for sending money globally in a safe and reliable way.Â
SWIFT
Supported countries for SWIFT payments
Americas
- Argentina
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- United States
- Uruguay
Asia-Pacific
- Australia
- China
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Taiwan
Middle East & Africa
- Bahrain
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
Europe (all SEPA countries)
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
Please note: Both of these lists are exhaustive. If your destination or currency is not here, unfortunately the payment cannot be processed by Holvi and will be automatically returned to the sender.
SWIFT & currency accounts
Supported currencies for SWIFT payments & currency accounts
- Australian Dollar AUD
- British Pound GBP
- Canadian Dollar CAD
- Chinese Yuan (Offshore) CNH
- Czech Koruna CZK
- Danish Krone DKK
- Euro EUR
- Hong Kong Dollar HKD
- Hungarian Forint HUF
- Israeli New Shekel ILS
- Japanese Yen JPY
- New Zealand Dollar NZD
- Norwegian Krone NOK
- Polish Zloty PLN
- Romanian Leu RON
- Singapore Dollar SGD
- Swedish Krona SEK
- Swiss Franc CHF
- United Arab Emirates Dirham AED
- US Dollar USD
Why do I see “CNH” instead of “CNY” for payments to China?
CNH (offshore yuan) and CNY (onshore yuan) are the same currency, traded in different markets. CNY is used within mainland China under local capital controls; CNH is the version used internationally, including for business payments like ours.
As a B2B cross-border payment provider, we handle CNH. This means:
You don’t send CNY directly — you send a payment in CNH (or your own currency, converted to CNH), and it’s then converted into onshore CNY as it enters mainland China, so it reaches your recipient in the currency their bank account requires.
Exchange rates for CNH and CNY are usually very close but can differ slightly, since they trade in separate markets. This is normal and doesn’t affect your payment going through correctly.
Ways to make use of Holvi’s supported currencies
As well as sending and receiving SWIFT payments, you can:
- Create a currency-specific IBAN account
- Send invoices in your chosen currency
- Create a USD or GBP virtual card
Keep in mind
- Payments made to unsupported countries or in unsupported currencies will be automatically returned to the sender.
- Always double-check that both the destination country and currency are supported before sending.
- SWIFT transfers require a BIC/SWIFT code, and often also the recipient bank’s address details.
Need help sending a payment?
- Step-by-step instructions: How to make a SWIFT payment in Holvi
- Want to compare SEPA and SWIFT payments? Check out this article