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    Bank account or EMI that lets a freelancer / sole proprietor use a business name (trade name) instead of personal name?

    Yoursafe allows custom name based on social media handle with some limitations for personal accounts. Otherwise @daniels27 is right, some European banks are insensitive to mismatched names. Otherwise, if you use trade name + real person name (like "ABC123XXLsuperconsulting John Smith"), there...
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    Hi all

    Well, not so much now, but used to have it as a primary business – a lawyer by education, but CPA is how I made my first million :)
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    Hi all

    I assume CPA as in cost-per-action i.e. affiliate marketing, not accounting – you probably wouldn't do that since a kid or use it to learn web development
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    EMIs

    NGN for personal accounts on Due and you can convert directly to USDC
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    JetonBank, experience?

    They also have 1 or 2 more Dominican banks, 4 EMIs, 1 PI, and some SRO members, MSBs, local licenses in developing countries, etc. Good question, no idea. But it's pretty interesting and they must be well capitalized.
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    Which jurisdiction should I open or purchase a bank in?

    Bankrupt and banana republic with insane capital requirements after the reform. It was good when $500K made up of mostly the CD was the capital requirement. Now you can probably get a license easier in the EU (e.g. specialized bank in LT even though I am not a big fan of this jurisdiction) with...
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    Malta Self-Sufficient Residency + Estonian OÜ

    No. IBAN discrimination is illegal in the Eurozone. You can get AdSense payments to any Eurozone country, e.g. Maltese account to Lithuanian IBAN. Only royalties from YouTube. Service income from AdSense for Web/Admob for Apps.
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    Best scenario for perpetual travellers

    None of these are US sourced income in the way we are talking about, which is ECI. You would have to have a US employee or conduct some activity from US territory (in a majority of cases) to trigger US ECI. Just having clients is not important.
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    Which jurisdiction should I open or purchase a bank in?

    You can theoretically go for Anjouan as you mention but IMO this is not more than a cosmetic license. It theoretically works but these licenses are not globally recognised, I think the primary benefit is that you can use bank in your business name, lol. Yes, it's very slow and compliance is...
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    Reliable EU Nominee services?

    Why Spain? It is a tax hell even for EU standards, not particularly effective banking, UBO disclosure the same way as everywhere else. Maybe you have some more effective tax structures your firm implements? Can you elaborate on the value and benefits of this service (and Spain's involvement)?
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    Mercury new banking partner switch

    Coffeezilla video is unfortunately a very inaccurate rendition of events. Simply Synapse moved funds between client accounts at Evolve and their own licensed brokerage. When you are a client of a broker, you are not insured by the FDIC (obviously). The problem was that Synapse terms allowed...
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    JetonBank, experience?

    Well, what @Sols is suggesting is that since they are just a wrapper of European EMIs (some of which they own), there is a very high chance that the companies could be placed directly with those European EMIs and avoid the risk of holding the funds with this sort of bank (i.e., an entity which...
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    JetonBank, experience?

    Same company Legit but not cheap. Like a 90% chance you'll be restricted to B2B EUR SEPA for business (unsurprising, it is a Dominica license :/ and they are using CENTROlink) True. Individuals are serviced through their retail platform Jeton.com The review is kind-of accurate. It is a real...
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    Cyprus new 15% CIT + 5k non dom fee

    EUSSR doing EUSSR things... I would argue nothing in the EU is particularly attractive, but it is a decent choice in its current state.
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    Does anyone know Yoursafe ?

    Yes, I know the founder J.Z., he was also the owner of Freenom. Personally, I do not actively use Yoursafe, but I know an adult marketing agency that does, and they have positive opinions on it. Nevertheless, I think the focus is practically fixed on adult content and similar sectors. This is...