Re:N26 will be leaving the UK
by Scoundreller on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:09PM
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> when I log in I use the branch number of where we opened the account? Why? Who gives a shit about that? I certainly don't. But the bank does, for some unfathomable reason.
In the US and Canada, you’ll have a home branch too. Usually it doesn’t come up in anything day-to-day.
State laws for one thing may apply to accounts opened in a particular state.
But if a bank merges or gets acquired, or fails, and some branches get sold/divested, and not necessarily to one party.
One could find themselves a customer of a bank that is no longer local to them.
In the US and Canada, you’ll have a home branch too. Usually it doesn’t come up in anything day-to-day.
State laws for one thing may apply to accounts opened in a particular state.
But if a bank merges or gets acquired, or fails, and some branches get sold/divested, and not necessarily to one party.
One could find themselves a customer of a bank that is no longer local to them.
Here’s a merger that had a divesture:
https://www.bauerfinancial.com/2019/12/09/its-truist-theres-...