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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US citizens have to report all foreign accounts for tax purposes, and the foreign banks are ALSO required to file statements about the US citizens' accounts. I can understand why the banks see this as a burden and resist US customers

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The same is true within the EU countries. But as far as I know the US also demands "real time access without notice to the bakn or owner of the account" and that is something which simply isn't allowed within the EU. An US citizen can in theory agree to this but then only a few banks even have the technical framework to offer such an access.

Within the EU the police can also request banking data but need a signed court order and the data isn't delivered in real time and by the bank itself and the customer gets informed afterwards.