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N30 Global

N30International banking

International Banking & Offshore Bank Account Opening

You do not need “a bank account abroad”. You need an account the bank can understand and your structure can support.

We help founders, companies, investors and private clients select jurisdictions, prepare the banking file and coordinate international account opening through a specialist partner, aligning tax residence, ownership, activity, source of funds and real operating needs.

Personal & corporate accounts · Multiple jurisdictions · KYC preparation · Opening coordination

N30 Banking Map360°
ObjectiveViable account. Coherent operations.
01Account holder

Individual, OpCo, holding or vehicle.

02Residence

Tax position and UBO countries.

03Activity

What you do and who you deal with.

04Funds

Source, volume and movements.

05Bank

Jurisdiction, profile and currencies.

06Reporting

CRS/FATCA and applicable duties.

01The real banking problem

The bank is not validating your tax strategy. It is deciding whether it understands your profile.

Difficult onboarding is rarely solved by submitting more applications. It is solved by matching the right account holder, jurisdiction, activity, documentation and flows with an institution comfortable with that profile.

01Wrong bank

A prestigious institution can still be a poor fit for your residence, industry, entity or expected transaction profile.

02Weak file

Inconsistent contracts, tax information, corporate records or source-of-funds evidence create onboarding friction.

03Account that does not work

Approval has little value if currencies, transfers, cards, processors or international payments do not match the business.

04False privacy

Modern international banking is transparent. Offshore does not mean invisible and does not remove reporting obligations.

The objective is not to obtain “any yes”. It is to establish a banking relationship you can maintain and explain.

02What we can coordinate

Banking for individuals, companies and structures. Not one solution for everyone.

We work with a specialist international banking partner. The service starts by defining what the client actually needs and can extend through coordinated account opening, always subject to the bank's final approval.

02 · BUSINESS

Operating company accounts

Receipts, suppliers, currencies and payments for companies with international customers or activity, matched to sector, shareholders and geography.

03 · HOLDING / INVESTMENT

Holding and investment vehicle accounts

Dividends, acquisitions, investments, financing and capital movements require a different banking narrative from daily operating transactions.

03What offshore really means

Offshore does not mean secret. It means banking outside your usual jurisdiction.

An international account can add jurisdictional diversification, currency access, payment infrastructure or fit with a foreign company. Ownership and tax/reporting duties still remain.

The OECD Common Reporting Standard provides a framework for automatic exchange of certain financial account information between participating jurisdictions. N30 Global therefore works from transparency and consistency, not concealment.

04Random application vs coordinated onboarding

Account opening is a compliance process. Prepare before the bank asks the questions.

A coherent file cannot guarantee approval, but it removes avoidable errors and improves the quality of the process.

Without strategy

  • choose a country because “accounts are easy there”;
  • approach institutions that do not fit your profile;
  • prepare documents reactively;
  • mix personal and corporate flows;
  • struggle to explain source and destination of funds;
  • discover reporting after opening.
05How we work

Fit first. Opening second.

Banking works best when the file presented to the institution matches the tax, corporate and economic reality behind it.

01

Diagnose

Residence, holder, company, activity, currencies, countries and objective.

02

Select

Jurisdictions and institution profiles compatible with the case.

03

Prepare

KYC, UBO, tax, company, contracts and source-of-funds evidence.

04

Open

Specialist partner coordinates and follows the onboarding process.

05

Integrate

Use of account aligned with company, residence and defined flows.

07Frequently asked questions

International banking without false expectations.

Opening remains a bank compliance decision. Our role is to improve fit, prepare the file and coordinate the right process.

Is it legal to hold a bank account in another country?
Yes, provided ownership, source and use of funds are legitimate and all applicable tax and reporting obligations are met.
Can N30 Global open the account for me?
N30 Global assesses fit and structures the strategy; a specialist partner coordinates the account-opening process with institutions and banking providers across selected jurisdictions. Final approval always belongs to the bank.
Can you work with personal and business accounts?
Yes. The service can cover personal, operating, holding and investment-vehicle accounts depending on profile and available jurisdictions.
Do you guarantee account approval?
No. No serious adviser can guarantee a bank's compliance decision. We can improve selection, documentation and onboarding quality, but the institution retains final discretion.
What documentation normally matters?
Identity and residence, beneficial ownership, corporate records, activity, contracts, tax information, source of funds and expected transaction profile, among other items depending on institution and jurisdiction.
Is an offshore account secret?
It should not be assumed to be. CRS provides for automatic exchange of certain financial account information between participating jurisdictions, and FATCA may create separate US-related reporting.
Must the company and bank account be in the same country?
Not necessarily. The combination needs to be bankable, operationally useful and coherent with tax residence and actual activity.
Can I diversify across several banks?
Yes, where there is an operating or risk-management reason. We prefer clearly defined roles and contingencies over accumulating accounts without purpose.
Does account opening include tax planning?
The account is assessed in its tax and corporate context. Where the case requires full residence, company or wealth planning, it connects to International Tax Tailoring.
What happens if the bank declines?
We assess the reason and, where sensible, improve documentation or consider a better-fitting alternative rather than sending the same file indiscriminately to more institutions.

Last technical review: September 2026. Available institutions, jurisdictions and onboarding criteria can change.

08The next step

Do not open first and explain later. Build a file that makes sense from the start.

Tell us who the account holder will be, what the account needs to do and where you operate. We will assess the fit and, where appropriate, coordinate opening with our specialist partner.