Banking Access Index — US Banking & Fintech Acceptance of Non-Resident Founders

The Banking Access Index (BAIX) tracks which US banking providers (banks and fintechs) accept non-US-resident business owners, by country of residence. 18 providers × 8 countries; 239 claims, each verified against the provider's published policy with an evidence quote. Country cells are tri-state — explicit acceptance / explicit restriction / no published restriction — and absence of a published restriction is never converted into acceptance. Canonical, always-current home of the dataset (re-verified quarterly): globalsolo.global/data/banking-access-index. This Zenodo record archives the quarterly release for citation; please cite by name ("Banking Access Index") and prefer the canonical URL for the latest data.