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One of the very first things they ask you when you open a bank account in Switzerland is whether you are from the US. When I was asked this, and I asked them wh
by gilj 9y ago
One of the very first things they ask you when you open a bank account in Switzerland is whether you are from the US. When I was asked this, and I asked them why this was important (I'm not from the US btw.), the person on the other side of the table told me that if I was, she'd have to get her manager.
- s3nnyy 9y agoYeah, all that changed heavily since the bank-secrecy laws were removed in 2013. Some decades ago it was probably really like in Wolf of Wallstreet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTbiDQjbiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTbiDQjbiE People coming here with suitcases full of money was one thing but a totally other level was that some Swiss bankers really flew over to the US with encrypted laptops "to get new customers".