Mercury
A U.S. fintech bank popular with startups and remote founders, offering free business checking with strict address-based KYB.
Mercury is a banking platform built for startups, with FDIC insurance through Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust. It is one of the most common first-stop choices for international LLC owners because account opening is fully online. Mercury's KYB pipeline runs the registered business address through multiple enrichment APIs and aggressively declines addresses flagged as CMRA, virtual mailbox, or registered-agent-only. Decline rates are highest for addresses associated with mass commercial-registered-agent buildings.
Also known asMercury Bank, mercury.com
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