Wise can freeze, restrict, or close your account if it believes you have violated the terms, if a law requires it, or if Wise decides it needs to protect itself or other customers, and this can happen with limited advance notice.
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Account suspension can cut off your access to funds you hold with Wise, and because Wise is not a bank, your normal consumer banking protections around account access may differ from what you expect.
Interpretive note: The specific notice period and fund return timeline upon suspension or closure are not fully detailed in the available document excerpt, creating uncertainty about the practical scope of this provision.
The updated terms extend the deadline for reporting transaction errors from 60 days to 120 days for all transactions except Send Money transfers. The 120-day period begins either from the first day you could see the error in your online account history or the day Wise sent the first written statement showing the error, whichever comes first. This change gives account holders twice as long to identify and report discrepancies before losing the right to dispute them.
View change record →Changed from 'with or without cause' to 'if we reasonably believe you have breached' (adding a reasonableness standard) and narrowed harm protection from general 'protect Wise or our customers' to specific 'financial or reputational harm.'
View full change record →If Wise suspends or closes your account, you may temporarily lose access to any funds held in your Wise balance, including multi-currency holdings, until the issue is resolved or your balance is returned to you.
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"Wise may suspend, restrict, or close your account at any time if we reasonably believe you have breached this Agreement, if we are required to do so by law or regulation, or if we believe it is necessary to protect Wise or other customers from financial or reputational harm.Excerpt from Wise's Terms of Use (Superseded URL)
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Account suspension provisions in money services business agreements intersect with state money transmitter licensing requirements, which in many jurisdictions impose obligations to return customer funds promptly upon account closure.
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Account suspension can cut off your access to funds you hold with Wise, and because Wise is not a bank, your normal consumer banking protections around account access may differ from what you expect.
If Wise suspends or closes your account, you may temporarily lose access to any funds held in your Wise balance, including multi-currency holdings, until the issue is resolved or your balance is returned to you.
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