Guarantors & escrow
Guarantor services and escrow for deals between parties.
Western Alliance Bank
Western Alliance Bank is a US bank that provides escrow and paying agent services for M&A, asset sales, capital raising and deferred payments. Its Gateway…
Vstock Transfer
Vstock Transfer is a US transfer agent that also administers escrow and acts as paying agent for private and public companies. As a neutral party it controls…
Riverside Trustees
Riverside Trustees is a Singapore trust company offering financial escrow for M&A and other transactions. It acts as an independent party holding funds, with…
Perpetual Corporate Trust
Perpetual Corporate Trust includes escrow among the institutional services it provides for managed funds and investment structures. The group holds assets…
PAYLAX
PAYLAX is a German protected-payment platform for goods, services and deposits between private and commercial parties. The seller creates a payment link, the…
Pacific Custodians (MUFG Corporate Markets)
Pacific Custodians (MUFG Corporate Markets) provides escrow for funds, capital-markets transactions and staged payments. Funds in AUD or an agreed foreign…
One Investment Group
One Investment Group acts as an escrow agent, holding a client's money or property during a transaction or after a dispute arises. The service belongs to its…
Odyssey Trust Company
Odyssey Trust Company provides short- and long-term custody of money and securities in escrow under the terms of a transaction. According to the description…
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan offers bank escrow for M&A, capital raising, litigation, real estate and international transactions. Services Escrow Paying agent Cross-border…
IDFC FIRST Bank
IDFC FIRST Bank acts as an escrow agent for conditional settlements between two or more business parties in India. Services Escrow agent Payment and collection…
ICBC
ICBC provides escrow for cross-border trade, M&A, share transfers and debt restructuring. The bank opens a separate escrow account, holds money, securities and…
HSBC
HSBC holds money or securities as an escrow agent through its Issuer Services business until the instructions required by the contract are received. Where it…
Green Escrow Services
Green Escrow Services is an independent escrow company from Pleasanton, California, incorporated as an Inc. It focuses on transactions where a business, its…
Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking
Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking offers corporate escrow for M&A, good-faith deposits, construction and deals that use controlled accounts. The legal provider…
GLAS
GLAS is an independent agent and trustee for complex financial transactions, and it offers cash escrow in the main currencies. The exact currency list is…
First National Bank Alaska
First National Bank Alaska is a US bank that provides escrow for the sale of businesses, shares and equipment, and for the performance of private contracts…
Escrowpay (Trustmore)
Escrowpay (Trustmore) is the digital escrow line of Trustmore, run by Trustmore Technologies (P) Limited from Gurugram, India, and part of Trustmore Group. It…
Escrow.com
Escrow.com is an online escrow service for buying and selling goods and digital assets, operated by Internet Escrow Services, Inc. in San Francisco. The…
Guarantors & escrow by country
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Why escrow matters in payments
Many deals in the payments industry happen between parties who have never worked together: a provider and a new team, a merchant and an OTC desk, two companies exchanging liquidity across borders. An escrow service or guarantor holds the funds (or the security deposit) until both sides fulfil agreed conditions, then releases them. It reduces the risk of one side disappearing after receiving money.
Types of escrow and guarantee services
- Crypto escrow: funds in USDT or other coins are held in a controlled wallet and released on confirmation.
- Fiat escrow for B2B deals: a licensed escrow agent or law firm holds money on a segregated account.
- Guarantor services ("гарант сделок"): a trusted third party, common in P2P and Telegram-based markets, confirms both sides' performance.
- Deposit holding: keeping a team's or trader's insurance deposit with a neutral party instead of the provider.
- Milestone escrow for integration projects and software deliveries.
What to check
- Legal status: licence or regulated profession (e.g. escrow agent, notary, law firm) versus an informal guarantor; know which you are using.
- Release conditions: written, objective criteria and the evidence required.
- Dispute process: who decides, timelines, and what happens if a party stops responding.
- Fees: percent of the deal, minimum fee, who pays.
- Supported assets: fiat currencies, USDT networks, other coins.
- Reputation: history and independent references; avoid impersonators of well-known guarantors by contacting them only via verified channels.
Where escrow is used
- First trades with an OTC desk or P2P exchange merchant.
- Onboarding P2P teams and traders with deposits.
- Buying or selling a business, licence or white-label platform.
- Freelance and marketplace deals between companies.
By country
Listings include the UAE, the UK, the US, Singapore, India, Germany, Canada, Australia, Mauritius and China.
For disputes after a deal goes wrong, see disputes & recovery. Nominal hub itself does not provide escrow or act as guarantor.