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Good luck opening a bank account in Geneva as a US citizen. Unless you bring really a lot of cash they won't touch you with a 5 ft pole.
by lixtra 9y ago
Good luck opening a bank account in Geneva as a US citizen. Unless you bring really a lot of cash they won't touch you with a 5 ft pole.
- bradleyjg 9y agoIf you consider the US an unstable country, I don't know what to tell you.
- adamnemecek 9y agoNot what he’s saying. You can’t open an account even if you are from the us, much less so Iran.
- bradleyjg 9y ago"Much less from Iran" misunderstands the problem with opening an account from the US. Swiss banks don't want to subject themselves to the long reach of the United States government's aggressive criminal justice system. That's the reason they won't open a bank account for a US system anymore. See, e.g. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/tax-evasion_us-programme-nets--1-billion-from-swiss-bank-fines/41858248 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/tax-evasion_us-programme-nets--... The reason it was impossible, until recently, for an Iranian to open a bank account in Switzerland was not because of the Iranian governments, it was because the Swiss bank was afraid of running afoul of the US sanctions regime. Because those sanction have been lifted (at least for now) an Iranian can open a bank account in Europe, albeit they'll still have to go through a fairly extensive KYC process.