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Picture this: You can see several entities in one interface. Then a supplier asks where its payment is, an approver can't establish which entity authorised it, and your accounting team can't match the final record cleanly.

How can you make group payments easier without blurring entity-level control?

 

In short, map how your group owns, approves, moves, and records payments, then compare providers against the same operating criteria.

 

In this guide, we're going to cover:

 

- Representative payment flows and the people and systems behind them
- Evidence to request from a payment provider
- Criteria for comparing providers against your operating model
- The distinct operating fit of four shortlisted cross-border payment providers

Let's get started.

 

## Start with your group's operating model, not a feature list

Before comparing features, define how your group owns, approves, moves, records, and supports payments:

 

- Whose name is on the account?
- Who can release a payment?
- Which system owns the record?
- Who handles an exception?

Central visibility doesn't require central ownership. A [centralised, decentralised, or hybrid payment model](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/centralised-vs-decentralised-payment-operations) can give you a common group view while each of your entities retains its accounts, data, permissions, approvals, records, and obligations.

 

### Map representative payment flows and their owners

Map a high-value supplier payment, recurring batch, and intercompany movement. Add an inbound or payroll flow if material. For each, record the entities, purpose, currency, account owner, beneficiary, approvers, route, source system, and accounting destination.

 

For each completed payment, you should be able to see:

 

- The instruction ID and approval record
- The FX detail, fees and deductions
- The dispatch, intermediary and beneficiary bank states where relevant
- The proof of payment and reconciliation key

If a parent company in your group pays for a subsidiary, each entity still needs its own authority trail and accounting record. The same separation applies to other [intercompany transactions](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/simplify-intercompany-transactions).

 

### Turn that map into evidence a provider must supply

Ask each provider for evidence you can inspect:

 

- An account and entity diagram, permission matrix and approval change audit trail
- A route and eligibility matrix plus a written corridor quote
- A status dictionary, sample proof file, data schema and export
- Serving entity terms, security evidence, escalation routes and exit treatment

A demo should prove how your requirements work for the relevant entity, jurisdiction, route, and contract. It should also clarify whether an [all-in-one platform or dedicated payment provider](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/all-in-one-vs-dedicated-payment-providers) better fits the flow.

 

## What criteria should you evaluate payment providers on?

Evaluate four connected areas:

 

- Entity accounts, permissions and approvals
- Corridors, total cost and FX risk management
- Payment status, integration and reconciliation
- Contracting entity, security, support and exit

Follow one representative payment through all four. For your group, a weak answer in one material area can outweigh several secondary features.

 

### Entity accounts, permissions and approvals

Confirm whether each of your entities holds its own account and whether your group view preserves separate balances, records, permissions, and approvals. Test which users can view, change beneficiaries, initiate, approve, release, or alter workflows across portal, API, file, and scheduled payments.

 

Your [payment approval workflow](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/payment-approval-workflow) should preserve segregation of duties, thresholds, and an audit trail. Keep payment approval separate from [verifying supplier payment details](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/verify-supplier-payment-details), ownership checks, and independent callbacks.

 

### Corridors, total cost and FX risk management

Test a real corridor using the paying entity, beneficiary country, currencies, size, frequency, rail, cut-off, and charge allocation. Compare:

 

- The FX quote and provider fees
- Subscription, entity and implementation costs where material
- Intermediary deductions and charges at the receiving end
- Investigation, return and amendment charges

Request a written quote because [paying in the supplier's local currency](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/paying-suppliers-in-their-local-currency) can change the route and conversion. For future obligations, assess available forward payment contracts, eligibility, collateral, funding, and exit conditions within your [currency risk strategy](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/currency-risk-strategies).

 

### Contracting entity, security, support and exit

For each of your entities, confirm the serving entity, jurisdiction, safeguarding regime, complaint path, and four practical boundaries:

 

- Security evidence for authentication, access, beneficiary changes, encryption, audit trails, incidents and recovery
- Separate routes for ordinary support, payment exceptions, account management and FX specialist access
- Eligibility, service change and open forward payment contract terms
- Closure treatment for balances, exports, retention and access

The [international payment provider support](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/international-payment-provider-support) you receive needs a defined route for delayed, rejected, amended, returned, or misdirected payments. An [international payment security audit](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/international-payment-security-audit) can help you test authorisation, access, beneficiary management, and incident response against your workflow.

 

## 4 best cross-border payment providers for multi-entity businesses

Now apply the operating-model test to each provider. Their strongest lanes differ.

 

### 1. iBanFirst: managing group cash with separate entity controls

iBanFirst is a cross-border payment provider for established international businesses that need to [manage cash across multiple entities](https://ibanfirst.com/solutions/manage-cash-across-multiple-entities). From one login and one dashboard, you can see accounts, balances, and currencies across the group, move liquidity between subsidiaries, and keep each entity's data, permissions, and approval workflows separate.

 

#### What do you get with iBanFirst?

- Dedicated [multi-currency accounts](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/augmented-currency-accounts) for each entity to hold, send, and receive 25 currencies, subject to availability
- [One-login access](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/accounts-and-setup) to a group-wide dashboard with custom views and statements across entities, accounts, balances, and currencies, while each entity's data, permissions, and approval workflows remain separate, subject to configuration
- Free intercompany transfers for moving liquidity between subsidiaries from the same platform
- [Security and approval controls](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/security), including 2FA, encryption, payment limits, granular user rights, multilevel approvals, supported beneficiary checks, and platform signatures for API-created payments
- [Cross-border payments](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/cross-border-payments) in 135+ outgoing currencies across 180+ countries, using supported routes, batches, and scheduling, subject to entity and corridor availability
- [FX risk management](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/currency-risk-management) with fixed, flexible, and dynamic forward payment contracts and direct access to FX specialists, subject to pair, maturity, and eligibility
- [Financial system integrations and a REST API](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/integrations-and-automation) for bulk intercompany payments from accounting software and returning transaction data and proof of payment, with Isabel 6 or EBICS available for supported subsidiaries in France, Germany, or Belgium. Your finance systems retain accounting, reconciliation, treasury, consolidation, and reporting responsibilities
- [Detailed payment tracking](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/international-payment-tracking) with intermediary milestones, status, beneficiary bank arrival, a shareable link, and pacs.008 proof, with bank arrival kept separate from beneficiary credit

#### What are the trade-offs?

- Personalised FX pricing makes exact costs business-specific (although fully transparent for every payment)
- Forward payment contract terms vary by entity, currency pair, amount, maturity, credit, collateral, funding, setup, and channel
- Payment tracker covers SWIFT payments only, so other routes need different status evidence

#### The bottom line

iBanFirst is a strong fit for established international groups with annual FX volumes above €200,000 that need to see cash across entities, move liquidity between subsidiaries, and preserve separate accounts, permissions, and approval workflows. If you run a solo or micro business with low payment volumes, or need virtual cards, spend management, or payment acceptance, we may not be the right fit.

 

### 2. Airwallex: broader financial operations and developer tooling

Airwallex combines global accounts and transfers with cards, spend management, bill pay, and payment acceptance. Its account controls, approval workflows, and developer tools extend that breadth to multi-entity payment operations.

 

#### What do you get with Airwallex?

- Global accounts in 20+ currencies and local transfers to 120+ countries within the EU plan scope
- Cards, spend management, bill pay, and payment acceptance alongside international payments
- Controls for multiple accounts, transfer approvals, and API-initiated transfers
- APIs, webhooks, and reports covering fees, FX, settlement, status, and failures
- Published EU pricing with monthly plan and transaction charges, including FX mark-ups of 0.5% for major currencies and 1% for other currencies
- Same-day or scheduled FX settlement and G10 rate locking for two to 180 days where supported

#### What are the trade-offs?

- Per-entity subscriptions and custom-tier central management make costs and control access depend on entity count and plan
- A default ten-account limit in most cases and separate checks for each new legal entity constrain how accounts can be arranged
- The Accelerate plan lists onboarding support. What ordinary support routes apply to your business, and how can you access or export required data after closure?

#### The bottom line

Airwallex may fit if you need cards, spend, payment acceptance, broad APIs, and international payments in one product family. The trade-off for that breadth is a subscription structure that may increase your costs with every legal entity added and reserve central management for the highest custom tier.

 

### 3. Ebury: if you need trade finance

Ebury combines cross-border accounts, payments, FX risk management, and integrations with trade finance. Dedicated entity accounts, relationship support, and supplier-payment financing distinguish it for businesses that need funding alongside payment and FX execution.

 

#### What do you get with Ebury?

- Global transfers in 140+ currencies, local transfers in 50+, and local collections in 30+ countries within the UK scope, subject to availability
- Dedicated multi-currency accounts in the company's name by entity, country, or office, with advertised transfers across entities
- Mass payment infrastructure for batch files, APIs, subaccounts, approvals, tracking, and reconciliation, plus SFTP and 30+ no-code integrations
- Four forward payment contract forms — fixed, window, flexible, and dynamic — across 60+ currencies, although availability may vary by jurisdiction
- Relationship manager support and supplier-payment financing for businesses meeting separate eligibility and credit conditions

#### What are the trade-offs?

- Fees vary by currency, route, charge type, payment, and service, so no single tariff captures the group's cost
- Product availability may vary by serving entity and jurisdiction, so request the user, permission, and beneficiary-change matrix for your setup
- Confirm the payment-state definitions, beneficiary-sharing capability, ordinary support and uptime terms, and post-exit data export that apply to your setup

#### The bottom line

Ebury may fit if you need supplier-payment financing alongside cross-border payments and FX risk management. Without a trade-finance need, compare its negotiated pricing and entity-specific product access, then confirm the payment-state and exit evidence available for your setup.

 

### 4. Convera: enterprise-scale organisations that prefer a managed service

Convera provides global business payments, multi-currency holding, and FX products through a managed service. Multi-company controls, system connectivity, and dedicated contacts suit complex payment operations.

 

#### What do you get with Convera?

- Outgoing payments in 140+ currencies across 200+ countries and territories, with local and SWIFT routes, subject to availability
- Multi-company governance with one login, custom access, approvals, large-transaction controls, payee validation, and audit trails
- Batch files, scheduled payments, ERP mapping, APIs, and TMS connections
- SWIFT GPI tracking, payment-state visibility, and proof of payment
- A global currency account holding 60+ currencies and forward payment contracts in 44 currencies, subject to applicable terms
- Dedicated access to an account manager and FX dealer within the managed service model

#### What are the trade-offs?

- Tailored pricing means advertised no sign-up or monthly fees don't reveal the total cost once route fees and currency mismatch conditions apply
- Payment methods, currency holding, FX products, permissions, safeguarding, and legal terms vary by country, currency, industry, and serving entity
- Historical retrieval may carry a fee. What post-termination retention and export terms apply to your data?
- Confirm the permissions, payment-status definitions, ordinary support routes, and safeguarding model that apply to each serving entity

#### The bottom line

Convera may fit if your enterprise-scale organisation values managed support, multi-company controls, system connectivity, large-transaction governance, and dedicated contacts. The managed-service model comes with tailored pricing and entity-specific terms, so it suits you better when you want a managed relationship rather than a lighter self-serve workflow.

 

## Why more than 10,000 businesses trust iBanFirst for international payments

If you manage a multi-entity group, iBanFirst provides one platform to see cash across your entities and move liquidity as your group's needs change, while each entity keeps separate controls and records.

 

With iBanFirst, you can:

 

- See accounts, balances, and currencies across the group from [one dashboard](https://ibanfirst.com/solutions/manage-cash-across-multiple-entities), with dedicated entity accounts, permissions, and approval workflows
- Move liquidity between subsidiaries from the same platform through free intercompany transfers
- Make [cross-border payments](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/cross-border-payments) across supported routes and manage currency exposure with forward payment contracts and access to [FX specialists](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/currency-risk-management)
- Track supported SWIFT payments with [shareable payment evidence](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/international-payment-tracking), then return transaction data and proof of payment to accounting software through [supported integrations and a REST API](https://ibanfirst.com/platform/integrations-and-automation)

You can see where cash sits across your group, move liquidity where needed, and keep payment evidence connected to each entity's records.

 

If your group manages multiple entities, locations, currencies, and jurisdictions with annual FX volumes above €200,000, [request an account today](https://info.ibanfirst.com/en/request-an-account).

 

 

## More questions about multi-entity payment providers

The shortlist can still leave three practical boundary questions.

 

### Can one payment provider cover every legal entity?

One provider can cover several entities, but universal coverage may be unavailable or unnecessary. Eligibility, currencies, rails, serving entity, safeguarding, permissions, tax and legal structure, and internal controls can change the answer. Record which provider covers each flow and who owns any gap.

 

### Can a payment provider replace your ERP or accounting system?

No. A payment provider can hold accounts, execute payments and FX transactions, and return evidence. Your ERP or accounting system retains the invoice, ledger, close, consolidation, tax, and reporting records.

 

API, file, statement and export connections can reduce manual handoffs only when identifiers, fields, status meanings and exception ownership line up across both systems.

 

### When should you reassess provider fit?

Reassess fit after a material change, such as a new entity or country, different corridors or currencies, higher volume, new FX exposure, integration changes, recurring exceptions, support breakdowns, an acquisition, restructuring, or impending exit.

 

Reuse the same flow map and evidence questions. A scheduled review can support governance, but signs that you're [outgrowing your payment provider](https://blog.ibanfirst.com/en/outgrowing-your-payment-provider) should trigger an earlier reassessment.

 

 

*All provider context in this resource is based on information available as of September 2026. Product details, pricing and availability may change.*

 

*Sources:*

- *https://www.airwallex.com/en-eu/pricing*

- *https://help.airwallex.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4415356006553-How-to-set-up-multiple-accounts-under-the-same-legal-entity*

- *https://ebury.com/en-gb/products/business-accounts*

- *https://media.ebury.com/terms-conditions/2026-Ebury\_Partners\_UK\_Limited-Corporate\_Relationship\_Agreement-v.10.0.pdf*

- *https://convera.com/en-gb/products/global-payment-solutions-for-business/*

- *https://convera.com/docs/convera-terms-and-conditions-gb.pdf*

 

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