Quote from: rpietila on March 26, 2013, 12:12:49 PM

Quote from: rpietila on March 26, 2013, 09:24:01 AM

Meanwhile in Finland:

My local bank refuses to give out more than EUR 10,000 in cash to me. The stated reason is Easter. Then I ask, "okay, 10,000 more next week?". Answer: "Nope."

They advice me to go to other branches in the same city, so that I could take out the 20k I wanted. <- Note, it was not even big sum I was asking for.

I regularly visit them and take out several 100,000s a year in cash, so it is not that there is any "suspicious activity" rule that they are enforcing.

I had a meeting and then walked to another bank. Because my risk assessment had changed because of the above incident, I wanted to have an additional EUR 20k. After about 15 minutes of paperwork, none of which was anything special or suspicious to me, I was given the cash I wanted.

Conclusion: What I did is just a precaution. The bank does not pay me anything for keeping my money. I lose nothing if I take it out. I will spend it in my business in approx. 3-4 weeks even if nothing happens. If everyone did the same, there would be same hell here as in Cyprus.

Ahh... feels safer this way.