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I've noticed some similar in America recently. I've got friends who move 5-6 figure sums for various personal businesses, and their banks have been extra critic

I've noticed some similar in America recently. I've got friends who move 5-6 figure sums for various personal businesses, and their banks have been extra critical of their transactions. One bank got so annoying, that my friend tried to close the account, and couldn't! Lately hearing more and more stories about people getting de-banked, as been making me feel a little nervous. In the cases of the banks and my business friends, I'm more worried the banks are extremely over leveraged and don't want to part with any cash (like 2008 on steroids). - reposting this comment from another article on nigerian cash limits

tantalor 4y ago
> tried to close the account, and couldn't Um, why not? Did the bank not have the cash on hand? Were they over some standard limit, like FDIC?
llanowarelves 4y ago
Ever since March 2020, the reserve requirement for banks in the US is 0%. Isn't that cool?
CharlesW 4y ago
I believe this has been the case in the U.S. since 2013: https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination/bsa/index-bsa.html https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination...
vl 4y ago
Underreported info is that during many months of pandemic you couldn’t withdraw any significant amounts of cash. I decided to withdraw $10k just in case and they told me maximum they can do is $1k per day and this story repeated for many months.
- piperswe 4y ago
  During COVID I had no trouble withdrawing $7k from my local credit union for a car purchase, it just took a minute for them to get a manager to look over the transaction
- pavlov 4y ago
  This is not very surprising since there was a run even on toilet paper in March 2020. (I remember the empty shelves in Manhattan, and my relatives in Finland told the same story.) If people will buy stacks of toilet paper they don’t need, of course they would empty the cash machines too.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  I saw plenty of reporting on this, and nearly all of it was editorialized: it was being treated as evidence that customer savings weren't available, when the actual reason is that bank branches simply don't keep massive vaults of money on hand. If you have a bank account, you can always withdraw your savings (at least up to the amount insured, in the event of a bank collapse). But there has never been a guarantee that you can walk up to a teller and leave with your life savings in a bag; you should always call ahead and coordinate with the bank to ensure that they have the physical paper available. In many cases, they'll redirect you to a specialized or more central branch.
  - Spivak 4y ago
    And 99% of the time people do that is because they’re moving banks and they leave with a cashiers check instead of cash.
    - omginternets 4y ago
      So, to be clear, you can’t actually liquidate your account.
      - woodruffw 4y ago
        You can always liquidate your account. What you can't do is make it some random branch's problem in a spur-of-the-moment decision; you have to plan it with them.
      - Spivak 4y ago
        No, it’s that it is incredibly rare for someone to actually want to liquidate their account because the reason people do is usually to move banks and that use-case is better served with a cashier’s check. It’s not at all surprising that random branches don’t keep that much cash.
      - anigbrowl 4y ago
        No, that doesn't follow. You can definitely remove large amounts of cash, you just have to think ahead a little. Also, you have overlooked the fact that for many people a cashier's check is more convenient than a large wad of cash, especially if their sole object is to deposit it at a competing institution.
- 1jbdg 4y ago
  There is not an issue with the safety of banks. There was an issue with the amount of physical cash in the right place - during the pandemic (like any panic, recession etc) lots of people rush to cash and there isn’t enough of it. May mean the same thing when you can’t get the cash but it’s an important distinction. Ultimately very few people use cash so why have massive stocks everywhere, use it or lose it people…
- reachableceo 4y ago
  From the atm or the teller ? ATM limit of 1k is common. My small local credit union keeps about 10k in each of the tellers drawers . So you should be able to easily go up to 50k cash withdrawal . If it’s a large multinational , 100k I suspect. Also why not just go 10 days in a row and pull out 1k?
  - rmasters 4y ago
    > Also why not just go 10 days in a row and pull out 1k? In the US, this could be considered "structuring" to avoid reporting requirements which is a federal crime with a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.
    - wcoenen 4y ago
      If the reason to pull out 1K/day is a 1K/day limit imposed by the bank, then the reason is obviously not to avoid reporting requirements and therefore it cannot be considered structuring.
      - akimball 4y ago
        And yet people are prosecuted.
        humanistbot 4y ago
        [citation needed]
itronitron 4y ago
"In the fall of 2019 there was no war in Ukraine, there was no pandemic. But for still undisclosed reasons, the Fed decided to funnel trillions of dollars in cumulative repo loans to the trading units of U.S. megabanks and their foreign counterparties. The Fed’s repo loans stretched from September 17, 2019 through July 2, 2020." >> https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/global-megabanks-are-tanking-the-same-ones-the-fed-bailed-out-in-2019/ https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/global-megabanks-are-...

tantalor 4y ago

> tried to close the account, and couldn't Um, why not? Did the bank not have the cash on hand? Were they over some standard limit, like FDIC?

llanowarelves 4y ago

Ever since March 2020, the reserve requirement for banks in the US is 0%. Isn't that cool?

CharlesW 4y ago

I believe this has been the case in the U.S. since 2013: https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination/bsa/index-bsa.html https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination...

vl 4y ago

Underreported info is that during many months of pandemic you couldn’t withdraw any significant amounts of cash. I decided to withdraw $10k just in case and they told me maximum they can do is $1k per day and this story repeated for many months.

piperswe 4y ago
During COVID I had no trouble withdrawing $7k from my local credit union for a car purchase, it just took a minute for them to get a manager to look over the transaction
pavlov 4y ago
This is not very surprising since there was a run even on toilet paper in March 2020. (I remember the empty shelves in Manhattan, and my relatives in Finland told the same story.) If people will buy stacks of toilet paper they don’t need, of course they would empty the cash machines too.
woodruffw 4y ago
I saw plenty of reporting on this, and nearly all of it was editorialized: it was being treated as evidence that customer savings weren't available, when the actual reason is that bank branches simply don't keep massive vaults of money on hand. If you have a bank account, you can always withdraw your savings (at least up to the amount insured, in the event of a bank collapse). But there has never been a guarantee that you can walk up to a teller and leave with your life savings in a bag; you should always call ahead and coordinate with the bank to ensure that they have the physical paper available. In many cases, they'll redirect you to a specialized or more central branch.
- Spivak 4y ago
  And 99% of the time people do that is because they’re moving banks and they leave with a cashiers check instead of cash.
  - omginternets 4y ago
    So, to be clear, you can’t actually liquidate your account.
    - woodruffw 4y ago
      You can always liquidate your account. What you can't do is make it some random branch's problem in a spur-of-the-moment decision; you have to plan it with them.
    - Spivak 4y ago
      No, it’s that it is incredibly rare for someone to actually want to liquidate their account because the reason people do is usually to move banks and that use-case is better served with a cashier’s check. It’s not at all surprising that random branches don’t keep that much cash.
    - anigbrowl 4y ago
      No, that doesn't follow. You can definitely remove large amounts of cash, you just have to think ahead a little. Also, you have overlooked the fact that for many people a cashier's check is more convenient than a large wad of cash, especially if their sole object is to deposit it at a competing institution.
1jbdg 4y ago
There is not an issue with the safety of banks. There was an issue with the amount of physical cash in the right place - during the pandemic (like any panic, recession etc) lots of people rush to cash and there isn’t enough of it. May mean the same thing when you can’t get the cash but it’s an important distinction. Ultimately very few people use cash so why have massive stocks everywhere, use it or lose it people…
reachableceo 4y ago
From the atm or the teller ? ATM limit of 1k is common. My small local credit union keeps about 10k in each of the tellers drawers . So you should be able to easily go up to 50k cash withdrawal . If it’s a large multinational , 100k I suspect. Also why not just go 10 days in a row and pull out 1k?
- rmasters 4y ago
  > Also why not just go 10 days in a row and pull out 1k? In the US, this could be considered "structuring" to avoid reporting requirements which is a federal crime with a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.
  - wcoenen 4y ago
    If the reason to pull out 1K/day is a 1K/day limit imposed by the bank, then the reason is obviously not to avoid reporting requirements and therefore it cannot be considered structuring.
    - akimball 4y ago
      And yet people are prosecuted.
      - humanistbot 4y ago
        [citation needed]

itronitron 4y ago

"In the fall of 2019 there was no war in Ukraine, there was no pandemic. But for still undisclosed reasons, the Fed decided to funnel trillions of dollars in cumulative repo loans to the trading units of U.S. megabanks and their foreign counterparties. The Fed’s repo loans stretched from September 17, 2019 through July 2, 2020." >> https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/global-megabanks-are-tanking-the-same-ones-the-fed-bailed-out-in-2019/ https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/global-megabanks-are-...