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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
@peterleinchen, ALL banks in the UK require such ridiculous amount of detail. I once lost a good deal on an N9 someone was selling in this forum because he would not accept PayPal an my bank required all sorts of details down to the shoe size (bank name, bank address, but also the account owner's name and address, you name it). He was not prepared to share that level of details and sold the phone to someone else.
Well join the EURO

My experience is limited to Spain, Austria, Netherlands and Germany. I've never had to give any address. The (recipient's) name is only used for cross checking in case somebody fvcks up.

I'm a big fan of IBAN because of this. But maybe I'm just lucky with my banks. Note that even now banks can still charge a fee for *receiving* a transfer. This is allowed, as long as they charge the same fee for in-land transfers. I've only experienced that with Spanish banks. No wonder they needed to be saved, the a**holes (and yes, I closed my account there as matter of principle).

Hopefully the EU will fix this someday (at least within the EU/EURO).
 

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