I am here to report not one but 2 bugs. When you specify a first time join balance from essentialsx and then create a "new" faction it adds that amount to the factions bank balance as essentials sees the faction as a player. Also in baltop it displays faction balances as it also does recognize factions as players.

Any updates?

I can confirm the above

no ;c

Apologies for the late reply.

This has been fixed in e95fad0. You can grab the fix from build 366 on the CI server.