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Does First Citizens Innovation Banking (formerly Silicon Valley Bank) accept marketplace businesses? (October 2026)

With conditions: as of October 16, 2026, First Citizens Innovation Banking (formerly Silicon Valley Bank) accepts marketplace businesses with conditions, per its published policy.

With conditions

Licensee: First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company (FDIC)

What the policy says

You are not permitted to use your account or other Deposit Services to cash checks or to provide our Deposit Services to others. You are not permitted to act as a payment intermediary or otherwise engage in activity that would be deemed a money services business under federal law or a money transmitter, check casher, check prorater, finance company or dealer in foreign or U.S. currency under any similar state laws, without our express consent.

First Citizens Innovation Banking (formerly Silicon Valley Bank) · Marketplace or platform that pays out to others · With conditions · · SourceConditions: an account that collects or pays out money for others is a payment intermediary, which needs the bank's express consent

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