Business Checking

Global Entity

Institutional infrastructure for groups: multi-currency settlement, cross-entity visibility, structured limits and a dedicated CFO contact.

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Global Entity is arranged rather than bought. Structure, limits and pricing are agreed in writing after a review of the group and its flows.

Section 01

Who Global Entity is for

Once a business becomes a group — several entities, several currencies, several jurisdictions — the hard problem stops being payments and becomes visibility. Global Entity is built for that problem.

  • You operate more than one legal entity and need a consolidated position without waiting for month end.
  • You collect and settle in several currencies, and conversion timing has become a real cost.
  • Intercompany funding happens often enough that it needs a structure rather than ad-hoc transfers.
  • Your finance function wants one named person who already knows the group.
Section 02

Multi-currency settlement

Hold what you collect
Balances in each trading currency, so revenue does not have to convert on arrival and again on payment.
Convert on your terms
Convert when the rate or the need justifies it, with the rate and the margin shown before you commit.
Local collection details
Customers pay into details that look domestic to them, which reduces failed and delayed inbound payments.
Settlement cut-offs
Published per currency and per rail, so a payment that has to land today is planned rather than hoped for.
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Currency risk is not removed

Holding balances in several currencies changes when you are exposed, not whether you are. Where exposure is material, hedge it deliberately — that is a treasury decision, and we will say so rather than sell around it.

Section 03

Group structure and visibility

CapabilityWhat it does
Entity hierarchyAccounts grouped by legal entity, with rights that follow the structure rather than cutting across it.
Consolidated positionOne view of the group across entities and currencies, refreshed through the day.
Cash concentrationSweeps and pooling between accounts on agreed rules, with a full audit trail.
Intercompany fundingStructured transfers with the reference and documentation attached at the point of movement.
Zero-limit treasuryOperating headroom agreed at group level rather than renegotiated per entity.
Segregation of dutiesEnforced across entities, so a group administrator cannot quietly become an approver.
Section 04

The CFO relationship

01

Discovery

Entities, flows, currencies, seasonality and where cash currently gets stuck. No product is proposed at this stage.

02

A written structure

Proposed account structure, sweep rules, limits and controls, set out so your auditors can read it.

03

Implementation

Accounts opened, rules configured, integrations tested in the sandbox, users trained.

04

Standing review

A scheduled review of structure and limits, and a direct line for anything that cannot wait for it.

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One named contact

The concierge is a person, not a queue with a nicer name. They hold the history of your group so you are not re-explaining it every quarter.

Section 05

Global Entity against Growth Scale

FeatureGrowth ScaleGlobal Entity
Legal entitiesOneMany, in a hierarchy
CurrenciesDomestic plus conversionMulti-currency balances and settlement
Cash concentration—Sweeps and pooling on agreed rules
Operating headroomStandard facilitiesStructured at group level
RelationshipPriority support laneDedicated CFO concierge
ReportingScheduled reportsConsolidated group reporting and audit packs
OnboardingSelf-serve upgradeArranged implementation
Section 06

Starting the conversation

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This document was last updated on 1 August 2026. We publish the current version here at all times; superseded versions are available on request.

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