Banking Access Index – 19 US banking providers, 8 countries, CC-BY

In plain words

The Banking Access Index is a free, open-licensed dataset documenting which of 19 US business banking providers accept non-US-resident founders of US LLCs across 8 countries. It contains 239 verified claims, each cited directly to provider sources, and is updated quarterly to track policy changes. The index distinguishes between confirmed acceptances, confirmed rejections, and genuinely unknown positions, rather than making assumptions.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Which US business banking providers accept non-US-resident founders of US LLCs: 19 providers × 8 countries of residence, 257 verified claims, every cell cited to a provider source. Free CC BY 4.0 dataset (CSV/JSON).

Which US business banking providers actually accept founders who live outside the US — documented from provider-published sources, not anecdotes. 19 providers ( 18 active; a superseded row stays visible rather than being deleted); 257 claims have survived independent re-verification against the original source pages, with the providers and rows added since that pass named below rather than folded in. Where a provider publishes nothing, the cell says so instead of guessing. For code: GET https://www.globalsolo.global/data/banking-access-index.json (or .csv ). No auth and no API key. CORS is open ( Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * ), so it can be fetched from a browser. Cite as: Global Solo…from globalsolo.global

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