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This matching requirement imposes a geographic consistency obligation that may disqualify businesses with distributed ownership or registration structures that do not align physically.
Businesses using Stripe Issuing must ensure their physical location, registration jurisdiction, and at least one beneficial owner's address are consistent with one another.
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"Stripe requires that the physical location of your business, its jurisdiction of registration, and the physical address of at least one of your beneficial owners all match.Excerpt from Stripe's Restricted Businesses List
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This matching requirement imposes a geographic consistency obligation that may disqualify businesses with distributed ownership or registration structures that do not align physically.
Businesses using Stripe Issuing must ensure their physical location, registration jurisdiction, and at least one beneficial owner's address are consistent with one another.
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