Decision to allow cross-border payments to Ukraine through branches
The war in Ukraine is primarily a humanitarian catastrophe and our thoughts go out to all those people affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Handelsbanken has for some time limited the possibility of making cross-border payments to a number of countries, including Ukraine. The reason for this has been that too few payers used the service for us to be able to offer good services in the long term. We are now facing a different situation, and we are therefore making it temporarily possible for private customers to make outgoing cross-border payments to Ukraine from a branch. This