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Hi there, I intend to open an account with HSBC Jersey and invest a larger part of my liquid assets there. In the EU, there is EU Directive 655/2014 which allows the blocking and seizure of accounts within the EU under a simplified procedure. Does anyone know if this will also apply in Jersey...

Hi, I recently discovered that debit and credit cards in most or all Georgian banks appear to be uninsured against fraudulent transactions. The cards are usually linked to the current account. Additional insurance is available at extra cost. Let's focus on BoG for now. But the same applies to...

Hello e-residents of Estonia, I think some of you e-residents have also set up an email forwarding for the personal @eesti.ee address. If you log in to the portal there, you will see a message that the aliases ([email protected]) will be discontinued from November 01, 2023. Emails to...

Hello, I currently have an account in Africa, which I am considering to close soon. With this money I would like to buy gold at Perth Mint. Therefore, I have registered for the "Perth Mint Depository Online account". I now have to specify my reference account there: If I now specify my account...

Spanish EMI BNC10 is mentioned in some threads in this forum. So I believe that some of you have opened an account there. An European friend told me about his problems with that EMI. And if you have an account with them, you should think about acting now. Disclaimer: All the information given...

Hi there, since the war in Ukraine started many people are asking for disconnection of Russia from SWIFT "like Iran got disconnected" many years ago. I am wondering, how that would be technically be possible. I thought SWIFT is a distributed system, where banks have relations with other banks...

Hello, recently I found out that accounts in Georgia can be topped-up by Western Union. They ask for a Money Transfer Code in their internet banking. If I usually do a transfer with Western Union to a bank account, WU already ask for bank details (IBAN, BIC) of the recipient. So you don't need...

Hello, does anybody know, if btc-exchange.com does CRS reporting? It is the connected crypto exchange of Mistertango. I red in this forum that Mistertango reported some people already. So, if I cash out crypto there and transfer it to Mistertango, it will very likely get reported. But what...

Recently Ipagoo and Mistertango got some problems and also some other banks like Versobank, Satabank, ABLV, Loyalbank among others are in liquidation. Therefore some questions came to my mind. In Europe EMIs have to hold customers money apart of their own money. So, if Ipagoo or Mistertango ran...

I was wondering how transactions are processed in the SWIFT (and also in the SEPA) system. After watching this talk, I got a quite good idea, how SWIFT payments are working: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8315-a_world_without_blockchain At 18:10 he shows the routing table for SWIFT payments as of...