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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Eswatini and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: 9-digit number; ERS issues a TIN Registration Certificate on successful registration. Registration number: Assigned on incorporation; printed on Certificate of Incorporation.

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Sector regulators

CBE · FSRA · EFIC

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How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

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Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Issued by Registrar of Companies on completion of online registration.
  • Constitutive Documents: Traditional paired structure; compiled per Companies Act 2009; filed with Registrar at incorporation.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by ERS; 9-digit TIN; VAT registration required if turnover exceeds E900,000.
  • Operating Permit: Issued by MCIT Department of Commerce; required for commercial trading activity; annual.
  • Sector-Specific License: CBE for banking, forex bureaux, money remittance; FSRA for insurance, retirement funds, capital markets, credit & savings institutions.
  • Ownership Records: Share register maintained by the company; Annual Return filed 1 July–31 August each year.
  • Governance Records: Annual Return (Form C) filed 1 July–31 August; Form J is the separate 21-day post-incorporation directors/members notification.
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution evidencing signing authority, or notarised power of attorney for third-party representatives.
  • Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
  • Good Standing: Issued by the Registrar of Companies within the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade. Annual returns must be filed between 1 July and 31 August each year; a Certificate of Good Standing is only available where annual returns are current. Request a copy dated within 30 days for banking use.

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Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

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Notes

  • Eswatini is not OHADA; do not apply OHADA entity types (SARL, SA, etc.) — use the Companies Act 2009 structures.
  • Eswatini is a Common Monetary Area (CMA) member; the Lilangeni (SZL) is pegged 1:1 to the South African Rand (ZAR). Exchange controls apply under CMA arrangements.
  • Apostille valid: Eswatini has been a party to the Hague Apostille Convention since 6 September 1968 (by succession). Documents for cross-border use require apostille, not full legalisation chain.