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Re:HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece  by travmatt on Monday September 04, 2017 @11:01AM (#15168671)
Then you go into a special category, where you go from fighting to find a person to talk with, to having banks designed to more easily accommodate your dropoffs.
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Re:HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece  by carapace on Monday September 04, 2017 @02:18PM (#15169902)
Oh yeah! I remember that. But it wasn't the banks, it was the boxes the cash was deposited in.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...

> Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows."

So lame:

> Though this was not stated explicitly, the government's rationale in not pursuing criminal prosecutions against the bank was apparently rooted in concerns that putting executives from a "systemically important institution" in jail for drug laundering would threaten the stability of the financial system.

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