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Do you have anything to do with crypto?

I've been hearing all sort of stories from crypto people having trouble recently (both banks and money transmitter, no one on wise though, actually someone I know started using wise after problems with revolut)




Crypto is the scapegoat excuse when the org doesn't want to give you a straight answer.

One of my bank accounts straight up won't let me send any money to Wise by any means. At first they told me "because legally we can only facilitate crypto related transactions at X sanctioned institutions". Then when I pressed them that Wise is unrelated to crypto, the story changed to "regulations prevent us from allowing you to send money abroad in this way".

This was another half-truth, because despite South Africa's capital controls, not a single other bank I've used Wise with has blocked my transactions. So it's clearly just a tactic to get me to use that bank's forex for my international transfers.


Nope, if you read the first thread I linked I describe the business (technical writing) a bit.




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