I dont understand why some guys have these problems with Bitstamp. I withdraw monthly about 20k and I have the money always within 1-3 days on my bank account (the fastest withdrawal was within 6 hours).
I believe european banks got the memo to get suspicious about money coming from exchange accounts.
Personally I haven't tried to withdraw fiat yet. My problem was with XRP's they blocked for an entire month, which are obviously worthless now, and they refuse to acknowledge the damages.
They even insulted me with a shitty 20 bucks coupon on fees. Yes, 20 bucks. I have given Bitstamp at least 6000eur in fees in 3 months I believe, and they wanna get rid of me with a 20 bucks coupon. Well, I've already stopped trading there, I went back to Kraken yesterday. I'd like to say I gave my money to Kraken yesterday, but apparently there were still no fees there until yesterday.
Kraken vs Bitstamp, broken engine vs broken support, though choice.. And yes I also use foreign exchanges, but I will eventually have to use one of these 2 to withdraw eur. And if Tether shit hits the fan, then I don't know which exchange will be the best option. I assume that Kraken's USD/EUR are real USD/EUR, otherwise Kraken wouldn't let people trade USDT/USD manually...
Really I don't know which exchange is the most trustful today.