Re: Zimmermann legal fund

At 02:23 PM 7/30/95 EDT, nsb@nsb.fv.com wrote:
>To pay into non-US accounts, we need to establish banking relationships in
>other venues.  For the most part, we need to do it one country at a time,
>which is awesomely time-consuming .....
>Remember, the requirement is not that you be in the US, but rather than you
>have an account in a US bank.  This is not all that hard for a non-US
>citizen to do **IF** you can show up physically at a US bank.  Thus, if
>there's a US bank that has an office near you, you can walk in and open an
>account to which deposits can be made through the US direct-deposit system,
>and  you're in business with FV.

Aren't there some banks or similar companies that are world-wide,
but have US branches?  I think SwissBankCorp or somebody like that
has an office in San Francisco; would it be possible for you to transfer
money to someone with an account there who's really in, say, Switzerland
or the UK or Hong Kong?
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C'punks,

On Sun, 30 Jul 1995, Bill Stewart wrote:

> Aren't there some banks or similar companies that are world-wide,
> but have US branches?  I think SwissBankCorp or somebody like that
> has an office in San Francisco; would it be possible for you to transfer
> money to someone with an account there who's really in, say, Switzerland
> or the UK or Hong Kong?

Foreign representative offices have very limited powers under US
banking law.  In addition, they have to be as forthcoming with
US authorities as do US banks.  There is no greater privacy with
them than with US banks doing the same sorts of transfers.  They
do make it a little easier to open Swiss or other offshore bank
accounts because they can handle the identity verification stuff
here, so you don't have to go there.


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