Dollar balances for business

USD Business Account

A dollar balance for invoicing US clients, paying suppliers and holding USD without a conversion at every step.

Online KYB Multi-currency accounts USD balances International transfers (SWIFT)

What Dollars Cost When You Cannot Hold Them

Double conversion

Dollars arrive, convert into the home currency, then convert back when a dollar invoice needs paying — two spreads on money that never needed to move currency at all.

Hidden FX

Conversion cost is folded into the rate rather than shown beside it, so the real cost of working in dollars only becomes visible after the fact.

Transfer delays

International payments pass through intermediaries, and the delay is usually discovered when the other side says the money has not landed.

Non-resident friction

Traditional institutions often decline companies registered outside the country whose currency they want to hold, regardless of how ordinary the business is.

What a USD Business Account Is

A USD business account is a company account holding a balance denominated in US dollars. Dollars received stay as dollars; dollars owed are paid out of them. It is the currency of the balance that makes it a USD account, not the country the company is registered in.

One distinction is worth drawing, because the two are often confused. A USD balance holds dollars. US local details — an account number and a routing number, used for domestic rails such as ACH — are a separate thing, and a company can hold dollars perfectly well without holding them. ACH is the domestic US clearing system; SWIFT is the international network that carries dollars across borders. Whether local details are available for your account is confirmed at onboarding.

Confirmed USD balance

Dollars held on a multi-currency account, paid in and out over international rails.

Confirm at onboarding US local details

An account number and routing number for domestic rails such as ACH — a separate capability.

How It Works at Fenryx

The USD balance sits inside a multi-currency account rather than standing alone. Dollars are one of the balances the company holds beside the others it earns and pays in, so moving between them is a conversion you can see the cost of, not a step that happens to you at the edge of the system.

Payments in and out travel over SWIFT for international transfers, or internally between Fenryx accounts. Every payment carries a status you can look up and reaches an export that keeps its reference. The account opens online through KYB review, and the currencies available on it are agreed for your account rather than promised as a fixed list.

What the Account Includes

Onboarding

Online KYB

Apply online and send documents remotely. Every account opens through KYB review.

Balance

USD in a multi-currency account

Hold dollars beside the other currencies the business works in. See foreign currency accounts.

Rails

SWIFT transfers

Send and receive international payments in dollars, with internal transfers between Fenryx accounts.

Exchange

Conversion between balances

Move between currency balances with the rate and the cost shown side by side before you confirm.

Visibility

Statuses and reporting

Each payment holds a status, and periods export with detail and references intact.

Who Holds Dollars

SaaS invoicing US clients

Customers pay in dollars, the dollars stay dollars, and nothing converts until the company decides it should.

Agency paying a USD contractor

The contractor invoices in dollars and is paid from the dollar balance, so the payment does not open with a conversion.

Exporter holding revenue in dollars

Dollar revenue is held as dollars and converted when the business chooses to, rather than at the moment each payment happens to arrive.

Finance teams separating flows

Currencies kept apart rather than funnelled through one balance, which removes conversions nobody asked for. See international business accounts.

Working in dollars already?

Tell us who pays you in USD and who you pay, and we will confirm what is available for your account before any paperwork starts.

Open a USD business account

How to Open One

01

Application

Tell us about the company and where its dollars come from.

02

KYB review

The company and its owners are verified.

03

Account setup

Balances, users and access are configured.

04

First USD transaction

Receive dollars or send your first dollar payment.

Fees

Account feeQuoted per account at onboarding
Transfer feeQuoted per rail, shown before you confirm
ConversionRate and cost shown side by side
LimitsSet at onboarding, reviewed against real activity

Figures follow the currencies and volumes a business actually works with, so they are quoted per account rather than published as one price list.

Who Can Hold a USD Balance

Registered legal entities only; we do not open personal accounts. A company does not need to be registered in the United States to hold dollars — holding a USD balance is about the currency, not the jurisdiction.

What it does depend on is business type, jurisdiction and the outcome of KYB review, and screening continues for the life of the account. No account or currency is guaranteed before that review is complete.

Who we cannot onboard

  • Anonymous accounts and exchange services
  • Anything built to obscure where funds came from
  • Goods and services whose circulation is restricted
  • Organisations with no commercial purpose
  • Persons and structures subject to sanctions

A summary. See our AML Policy.

USD Account Questions

Q

What is a USD business account?

A business account holding a balance denominated in US dollars, so dollars received stay as dollars and dollars owed are paid from them. It is the currency of the balance that makes it a USD account, not the country the company is registered in.

Q

Can I open one online?

The application is online and documents are sent remotely. Every account opens through KYB review, so it goes live once that review is complete rather than on a timetable we could promise in advance.

Q

Can non-US companies hold USD?

Yes, within eligibility. Holding dollars does not require registration in the United States. It does require passing KYB review, and eligibility depends on business type and jurisdiction, so no account is guaranteed beforehand. See international business accounts for the wider setup.

Q

USD balance or US local details — what is the difference?

A USD balance holds dollars. US local details — an account number and routing number used for domestic rails such as ACH — are a separate capability, and dollars can be held without them. Whether local details are available for your account is confirmed at onboarding. For balances in other currencies, see foreign currency accounts.

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What fees apply?

An account fee, per-transaction fees on transfers, and a conversion cost shown beside the rate when moving between balances. The figures are quoted per account at onboarding, because they follow the currencies and volumes a business actually works with.

Open a USD Business Account

Tell us who pays your company in dollars, and who your company pays.