i believe at this point, access to a bank account is also included in this. as things progress, more things will be added to the list. soon (if not already) internet access will be included.
I've made this argument before and made Americans (obviously) mad, but this cop out of protected classes allows you to actually discriminate against said classes, you just have to prove there is no malice in your heart, more or less. That is, you did not because they are black or not men, but because of the sanctioned reasons, then it's okay.
That is how protected classes are defined. Everyone is in multiple protected classes.
The problem is the effectiveness of the rules, not that they don't cover everyone.
What they can't do is deny you a contract in the first place. (Kontrahierungszwang – obligation to contract, concerns the local water company, the biggest local electricity provider and Deutsche Telekom)
I'm pretty sure these banks doing the profiling were in the U.S
Ah yeah like they were on the hook for laundering Mexican drug cartel money?
Actually, no; they won't.
That is unless you find a crooked banker (probably a number of them), which is willing to help.
While it's a nice illusion that a bank will do anything for money and this may have been the case 30 years ago this has massively changed.
The reputational risk and the risk of criminal prosecution, including loss of the banking license in critical markets, is much too big as that a reputable bank would willingly engage in such shenanigans nowadays.
That's not saying that it doesn't happen (see recent examples), but if it happens it's virtually always under circumvention of risk management and compliance departments at a bank.
There are tons of references online, but these are some:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-12/hsbc-mexi...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/17/hsbc-execut...
https://www.foxnews.com/world/hsbc-knowingly-helped-mexican-...
Second link: they kowtowed to Congress because it would be worse if they hadn't. Look at what they actually did: they complied with the law and advised their clients on how to comply with the law. That's their job.
Third link appears to be all about allegations in a lawsuit rather than anything that was proven.
If it's about all sorts of illegal activities, shouldn't law enforcement use these things as a resource, rather than driving it underground?
In a previous life I administered websites for a number of different businesses. One was a dating site that opened a small business account at a bank and then a couple weeks later the bank abruptly terminated their account, stating that they were not equipped to service "entertainment" business accounts. I guess their real reason was they considered there to be some risk that there would be soliciting going on and it wasn't worth the bother for the bank. The bank was very brash about it, stating that they can close an account at anytime for any reason.
I guess we should close all the bankers accounts because of Lehman Brothers. Politicians also.
Very possibly what spurred PayPal to make this change.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-was-18-and-tricked-into-do...
That doesn't necessarily make them, or their principals, immune to US civil or criminal sanctions.
And the list grows longer every day.
Not quite correct: the pirates actually have or enjoy a superior product; they don't have to "ignore" anything. The legal product has annoying anti-piracy warnings that legal purchasers are forced to sit through, while the pirated versions don't have these warnings at all, so the people who use these versions enjoy a better viewing experience.
On top of that, the format is superior. Legal viewers are restricted to DVDs (very low quality), Blu-Rays (high-quality, but inconvenient and bulky physical format), or streaming (varying quality, subject to problems due to transmission path), while pirates get to have a simple digital file on their computer which is whatever quality they want (i.e. they can choose to download a lower or higher-resolution/bitrate version) which is now local so it can't be suddenly restricted by studio executives who want to make it exclusively available on their streaming service, and it won't be unavailable because your internet connection is slow or down.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-ba...
Not in Australia.