Individual e-bank account within EEA for non-EEA citizen

[Evidence Alpha]

Hi,

After a visit, I was surprised to learn that the spanish banks no more accept individuals from Andorra while they were in the past.

I found www.boursorama.com in France which is a neo e-bank accepting some non-EEA individual acconts for almost no fees, through an application by mail. This solution does not seem well known.

I would like to learn if you're aware of other equivalent real banks in other EEA countries, offering remote applications. In the UK maybe ?

 

[Martin Everson]

Opening an EU retail customer account as a non-EEA resident is gonna become a thing‌ of the past 🙁. It is just something you are gonna have to get used‍ too and make plans for today.

 

[Martin Everson]

Bank introductions are nice but thats not how⁢ internal compliance works. There is a fire wall between a banker and compliance department. Unless︀ you have direct connection to compliance officer you will have your work cutout.

 

[Martin Everson]

Director, CEO, Shareholder, daughter of the president does‍ not matter. There is a firewall between them and compliance - this is compliance 101⁠ page 1. The compliance officer decides everything and not the director of a bank...period!!! If⁤ the Director is able to override a compliance officer or is in cahoots with them⁣ then that is banana republic bank. You mention Montenegro, Belarus, Romania well that answers the⁢ banana republic part at least ns2.

 

[Bmw850]

There is no real banks with cool compliance. They got rules and it s like‌ a government into a government. They are even not reachable at phone by the public.‍

But I remember few years ago I was opening accounts at sberbank in a little⁠ hole city in Russia. I knew the director, the wife of the director, the children⁤ and almost the grandparents ( humor). Yes when you have good connections everything is possible.⁣ The director and his troops have been fired and all my accounts closed.

I guess⁢ in this business everything is possible.. With a bit of money and connections.

 

[Mark Rucken]

I co-sign, all of this. That is exactly how things work in some if not⁢ most banks.