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Wasn't all of those scandals tied to foreign branches of the banks and the strictness has mostly only been applied there? I might be wrong, but I haven't heard
by SahAssar 6y ago
Wasn't all of those scandals tied to foreign branches of the banks and the strictness has mostly only been applied there? I might be wrong, but I haven't heard of swedish residents being denied banking.
- tpmx 6y ago- 6-9 months ago I started reading online of mostly Swedbank customers who had suddenly been asked to move their monthly salaries to this bank, or they'd lose their accounts. These people were doing stock trading only via Swedbank. - 18 months ago I tried to facilitate creating a corporate bank account managed by a foreign CEO from a non-EU and very first-world country in order to be able to create a Swedish company (AB) with the goal of hiring software people here in Sweden. Tried two banks (SEB and Handelsbanken) before giving up and going another route. My impression is that Swedish banks have tightened up things quite a lot in the past few years.
- SahAssar 6y agoYeah, that first example does sound unexpected based on my experience. I might have to deal with something like the second example in the soon-ish future, mind telling me the route you took?
- tpmx 6y agoYou kinda need to have an EU-based CEO. Swedish-based is (marginally) easier. There might be tricks via Cyprus or so, but that will only let you create the AB - you still need a Swedish corporate bank account to pay your employees the proper way.